Health

The Valiant Clinic Dubai, one of the health care institutions in the United Arab Emirates said it has finalized plans to boost Nigeria’s healthcare system.

A bill seeking to increase the penalties for quack doctors operating in the country has passed second reading in the House of Representatives.
The bill, sponsored by Dozie Ferdinand Nwankwo, seeks to amend the Medical and Dental Practitioners Act, 2004 to increase the fine for medical quackery from N5000 to N1 million and N10, 000 to N10m respectively, as well as a jail term of either five or 10 years, depending on the severity of the offence committed.

While there is still a long way to go when it comes to eye health, the number of people visually impaired from infectious diseases, however, has greatly reduced in the last 20 years. World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October, to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. Eyes are one of the most important organs of sense in our body. We perceive up to 80 per cent of all impressions by means of our sight.

Pharmacists under the aegis of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has raised red alert to the recurring menace of drug misuse and abuse, which they said is now taking unprecedented toll on health consuming public in Nigeria.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has confirmed that 33 suspected cases of Monkey pox had so far been recorded in seven states of the federation. Adewole made this known to State House correspondents after the meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, in the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday.

The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Wednesday, began a two-day training programme for over 30 journalists in Maiduguri on emergency health coverage.