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President Jonathan Commissions N1 Billion Trauma Centre in Abuja
Presiden Goodluck Jonathan has commissioned a trauma centre considered to be world-class and conform to international standards and best practices. The centre was constructed and equipped at a cost of over nine hundred million naira.
Also, in an effort to arrest the high incidences of medical tourism, the Federal Government has said it would provide incentives that would motivate existing local health manpower and also encourage Nigerian health experts based abroad to return. The President stated this at the formal commissioning of the trauma centre at the National Hospital, Abuja.
The President, who was represented by Vice President Namadi Sambo, said this would bring quality healthcare closer to more Nigerians and also reduce the depletion of scarce foreign exchange due to medical tourism.
To prove the seriousness of the government, Jonathan said: "We are modernising medical diagnostic and upgrading several tertiary healthcare facilities to meet the standards existing in those countries where Nigerians seek foreign medical treatment. We have also progressively improved healthcare financing and priority interventions."
He noted that the trauma centre has been appropriately equipped with modern facilities and that it is the first of its kind in the country.
The trauma centre, according to the President, is expected to provide the highest level of trauma management for severely injured patients in a timely and cost effective manner.
While lamenting that Ebola has claimed several lives in some West Africans countries including two deaths in Nigeria, Jonathan said his government was pained that the emergence of the disease in Nigeria was due to migratory transmission.
"It is important that we avoid panic and take the highest possible care in hygiene and contact, and by adhering to guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health. We have put measures and facilities in place for detection and management, and are working in concert with the international community to stem its spread. We must remain at high alert," the President stressed.
Speaking, Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, disclosed that the centre has the capacity and capabilities to handle all trauma cases, including burns, fires, accidents, terrorism or other man-made disaster.
Source:Allafrica.com
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convene a meeting of medical ethics experts next week to consider the
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Nigeria's illegal borders raise concerns over Ebola spread
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REPORT: Do medical missions really help?
Medical missions have grown in relevance in Nigeria over the past 20
years. This is largely as a consequence of the failure of the health
system to serve the poor. In the conventional sense, medical missions
usually involve a group of physicians and other health workers
travelling to a foreign country for the purpose of undertaking a special
series of short term health interventions to improve the health and
health care of a specific population.
These are normally of short term duration and arranged around a health care facility. Although debate continues about the value of medical missions as a sustainable health improvement strategy, Pro Health International (PHI) offers a slightly different approach to medical missions. It seeks long term strategic partnerships and funding, intense preparation and significant post mission care. To find out more on about the benefits of these health missions to host communities, volunteers and society we decided to join Pro Health on their recent mission to Ehor, a town close to Benin City in Edo State. Here, Anja Choon gives a short summary of the mission and her experience as a PHI volunteer.
These are normally of short term duration and arranged around a health care facility. Although debate continues about the value of medical missions as a sustainable health improvement strategy, Pro Health International (PHI) offers a slightly different approach to medical missions. It seeks long term strategic partnerships and funding, intense preparation and significant post mission care. To find out more on about the benefits of these health missions to host communities, volunteers and society we decided to join Pro Health on their recent mission to Ehor, a town close to Benin City in Edo State. Here, Anja Choon gives a short summary of the mission and her experience as a PHI volunteer.
Pro Health International was founded by Dr. Iko Ibanga as a
Christian, non-profit voluntary health care organization 23 years ago.
Through mobilising volunteer doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other
health care workers as well as support staff, the organization provides
free health care during short medical missions. Services offered during
missions include medical consultations, dental services, eye
consultations, health promotion to increase awareness of important
diseases and their risk factors, minor surgeries and pharmacy services,
all free of charge to the clients. PHI’s focus is on helping the poor
and underprivileged in rural settings.
Originally starting with 3-4 medical missions a year, they now run 25-30 missions in a year in Nigeria, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Zambia, The Gambia, Mali, Niger, Burundi and Malawi. Over the years, they’ve carried out about 200 missions and reached many thousands of people.
Originally starting with 3-4 medical missions a year, they now run 25-30 missions in a year in Nigeria, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Zambia, The Gambia, Mali, Niger, Burundi and Malawi. Over the years, they’ve carried out about 200 missions and reached many thousands of people.
The TY Danjuma Foundation
provides funding for an average of three PHI missions every year,
including a mission to Ehor from 6 to 12 July 2014, which I joint on
behalf of Nigeria Health Watch. As I later found out, it was not the
first visit of PHI to this particular town.
Mobile platform helps users make informed health decisions
Mobile
phone is changing how people access health information in Nigeria. Mobile savvy
entrepreneurs and organizations are developing different applications and
services to improve the digital lifestyle of Nigerians while impacting their
health.
Initiative launched to improve access to HIV diagnostics
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