Category: Health

BREAKING : President Buhari To Spend Four Days in U.K to See His Doctor

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President Muhammed Buhari will tomorrow, Tuesday undertake a four-day trip to the United Kingdom. Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media and Publicity), Garba Shehu in a release in Abuja said President Muhammadu Buhari in the course of the technical stop-over for aircraft maintenance in London on his way back from Washington last week, had a meeting with his doctor. The Doctor requested the President to return for a meeting which he agreed to do. President Buhari is expected baba to Nigeria on Saturday, May 12th. On his return, the…

ABU professor develops antimalarial drugs ‘from common herbs’

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Umar Katsayel, a professor at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, has developed two antimalarial drugs which he says can compete with other relevant drugs in the treatment of malarial parasites. Katsayel disclosed this in an interview with NAN in Sandamu, near Daura, on Monday. According to him, the drugs were developed from the roots of cissampelos mucronata plant and the stem-bark of plumeria rubra plant. The don at the faculty of pharmaceutical sciences added that “they are common herbs found around the vicinity”. He said the drugs were subjected…

2,131 Pregnant Women Tested Positive To HIV In Lagos

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No fewer than 1,131 pregnant women have been tested positive to the dreaded and incurable HIV disease in Lagos State, Health Commissioner, Dr. Jide Idris disclosed at the weekend. The commissioner, at a ministerial news conference in Alausa, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, disclosed that 38,791 pregnant women were tested for HIV, out of which 1,131 of them tested positive in the last one year. He said the test was carried out from the money received from Global Fund to tackle HIV issues in the state in a bid to stem the…

Aregbesola’s Bid To Restore Healthy Living Saves 12,000 Lives · … Commits Over N2bn to Healthcare

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The Restoration of Healthy Living part of Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s Six-Point Integral Action Plan in the State of Osun has since 2010 saved over 12,000 lives. The initiative which revolved round all strata of improvement, development and upgrade of the health sector of the state has its legacies in all segments. Efforts to restructure the health sector of the state started with the upgrade of 18 health facilities across the state with the three of the state General Hospitals in Asubiaro Osogbo, Ile-Ife and Ijebu-Ijesa being upgraded to the state-of-the-art…

The strength of sex (2) By Funmi Akingbade

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Twenty-six, if she moans, it feels good. If she wisely takes your hands off or roughly pushes them off, you are hurting her. Twenty-seven, you should keep your nails trimmed and well kempt; a woman doesn‘t like you touching her sensitive areas if you have rough or long fingernails. This could cause small cuts or painful ulcer long fingernails. This could cause small cuts or painful ulcers. Twenty-eight, if you are going down on her, the whole point is to use your mouth too. Don‘t just use your fingers. This…

Physician warns against Nap after Meal

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Dr Zayad Ahmed, a family physician at the National hospital, Abuja, has advised people to avoid lying down immediately after a meal as such practice could be responsible for common abdominal pains. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja that such practice could lead to indigestion and abdominal pains. He explained that the body is made to digest food upright after meal and everything should be done to support such process. “People should try to avoid anything that can trigger off stomach upset and abdominal…

Bathing your baby with hot water is dangerous, says Expert

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A Community Health Technician, Mrs. Hellen Bulu, has advised Nigerian mothers against bathing their newborn babies with hot water and stretching their hands in an attempt to massage them. Bulu of Family Health Clinic, Abuja, gave the advice in a lecture to mothers at an immunisation programme on Thursday in Abuja. She said that it was typical of African women to bath their newborn with hot water and also stretch their hands without knowing the implication. Bulu said that God who put the baby in their womb had already done…

Reinstated NHIS Executive Secretary In Fresh Scandal Over Unauthorized Withdrawal Of N10 billion

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Professor Yusuf Usman, recently reinstated as Executive Secretary (ES) of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), is suspected to have been involved in the unauthorized withdrawal of N10billion from the funds contributed by enrollees in the scheme. According to documents obtained by SaharaReporters, the funds, kept in the Federal Government’s Treasury Single Account (TSA), were withdrawn in two installments. The funds are made up of the 10 percent medical allowance due to federal civil servants. The deductions were stopped in 2006, with the funds handed over to the NHIS to…

Lassa Fever Kills 11 People In Edo State, Many Still Hospitalized

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No fewer than 11 persons have died of Lassa fever in Edo State in the latest outbreak of the hemorrhagic disease. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. David Osifo, who disclosed this at a press briefing to announce a successful stem cell transplant carried out by a private hospital, Celltek Healthcare Medical Centre, in Benin, added that 45 confirmed cases were recorded in the State. Osifo said that the recorded cases were receiving treatment at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital. “In terms of the state, there are about 45 confirmed…

Buhari Ignores Health Minister And Reinstates Suspended NHIS Chief

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President Muhammadu Buhari has reinstated the suspended Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Usman Yusuf. Mr. Yusuf was suspended by the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, in June 2017, following allegations of gross misconduct. A panel commissioned by the minister after Mr. Yusuf’s suspension later found him culpable for infractions that ranged from nepotism to theft of public funds. An administration official familiar with the development told PREMIUM TIMES Tuesday evening that Mr. Buhari did not consider Mr. Yusuf’s indictment by a ministerial panel before asking him to…