Healthcare services

Adewole: FG to Upgrade Standard of Midwifery Practices in Nigeria

Thursday, May 11, 2017

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has said the federal government has concluded plans to improve the standard of midwifery practices in the country.

This is coming as a Nollywood actor and producer, Jim Iyke, was unveiled as the Special Envoy/Goodwill Ambassador for Maternal, Newborn and Child health.

Adewole made this known yesterday during the commemoration of the 2017 International Day of the Midwife (IDM) in Abuja.

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Prof Isaac Adewole

Jim Iyke

Minister

Federal Government

FMOH

Midwifery

Healthcare services

Senator decries Nigeria’s budgetary allocation to health

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Lanre Tejuosho, has decried budgetary allocation to health sector, saying it was disproportionate in comparison to its mandate.

He said that the ministry’s allocation had continued to “show no break in gloomy pattern over the years”.

Mr. Tejuosho stated this on Wednesday at a news briefing in Abuja and said that “in the 2017 Capital Budget of N2.24 trillion, the health sector was allocated N51 billion (representing 2.78per cent).”

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Govt recruits 1,245 healthcare workers to reduce mortality rate

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

The Kaduna State Government on Tuesday said it would recruit 1, 245 healthcare workers to address the challenges of maternal health.

The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Paul Dogo, disclosed this at a one-day stakeholders’ forum in Kaduna.

The forum is being organised quarterly by a coalition of Civil Society Organisations known as Kaduna State MNCH Accountability Mechanism (KADMAN) in collaboration with the Community Health and Research Initiative (CHR).

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Governor Nasiru El-Rufai

Dr Paul Dogo

Mr Ibrahim Jere

Kaduna State MNCH Accountability Mechanism

Community Health and Research

CHR

Initiative

KADMAN

Bureau of Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment

Drug and Medical Supply Management

Needless deaths, Umuchima gets first hospital

Saturday, January 21, 2017

“I had a younger brother, who died in infancy in 1974 because he was ill. My brother would have survived the illness but the limitations our community had, ended his life that would have been a blessing to our community.

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Governor Mr Rochas Okorocha

Chief Festus Mbisiogu

Senator Aisha Alhassan

Ngozi Njoku

Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development

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Healthcare services

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