A Chinese-produced polio vaccine has gained prequalification from the World Health Organization (WHO), according to China's state-owned Sinopharm Group.
This shows that, after a five-year prequalification process, WHO has given the vaccine its stamp of approval in safety and efficacy, and United Nations procuring agencies may now source it.
The Edo State Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS says some returnees from Libya have tested positive for HIV/AIDS. THE Executive Officer of SACA, Mrs. Flora Oyakhilome disclosed this on Thursday while briefing newsmen in Benin during the screening of some of the returnees. She stated that plans were underway to recall indigenes of the states who were deported from Libya so they can also undergo the screening before they are fully integrated into the society.
The Federal Government based on concerns of continually losing well trained professionals to other countries has promised to pay more attention and also increase investment in the health sector.
The Ministry of Health has revealed that a fresh outbreak of cholera have killed up to four persons while 38 others have been infected in Shege Word, Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.
According to Public Relations Officer, state Ministry of Health, Mr. Musa Abdullahi, some of the affected victims are currently stable and responding to treatment.
The state commissioner of Health, Dr. Daniel Iya, who was represented by the state Director of Public Health, Dr. Ibrahim Adamu-Alhassan made donation of relevant drugs to the Shege community. He said the donation was part of the state government's ongoing intervention to halt further spread of the disease.
A sickle-cell NGO has advised sickle-cell patients to keep warm and avoid extreme temperature in the management of sickle-cell during harmattan, as cold and extreme temperatures could worsen health condition and trigger painful event.
Mr Adesina Adetunbosun, Founder of Babajide Olowodola Foundation, a sickle-cell NGO, gave the advice in an interview with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja.
Adetunbosun stated that extreme temperatures such as dry, cold and dusty winds associated with harmattan season affects sickle cell anaemia patients thereby triggering crises in them.
In a bid to tackle the menace of drug abuse in the country, the President of the Senate Dr. Bukola Saraki has promised to go after importers and distributors of drugs.
The Dr Saraki revealed this even as the Senate begins a roundtable in Kano with state governments, local governments, traditional rulers, the Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria and NGOs, to tackle the menace.
He expressed grave worry in series of tweets on his twitter handle @BukolaSaraki over the current spate of drug abuse prevalent in almost all the states of the country, adding that even nursing mothers were held by the clutches of drugs and other substances.
