Restoring Health to the Agenda in Nigeria- report from a conference
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On a cold morning on Saturday the 22nd of November, over 200 professionals with a commitment to improving the health of Nigerians…
Road Traffic Accidents and the Federal Road Safety Commision
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by Ndubuisi Edeoga The Federal Road Safety Commision has been in the news a lot lately. Guardian: January 1, 2009 deadline given…
The Bare foot doctors
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by ndubuisi edeoga A physician in Nigeria gets about twenty years of education and training , in the United States it’s about…
Time is Brain!!!
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by ndubuisi edeoga The new teaching by the National Stroke Association and so many other agencies involved in health care world over…
DFID launches 50 million pound Nigeria Malaria project, PATHS website and reports
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by ike anya The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has recently announced its funding of a 50 million pound initiative to…
Bring Back the Community Health Clinics!
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While we wait for all the new Health minister and the anticipated utopia that would follow, it would be nice to add…
The House that Jack built !
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by ndubuisi edeoga While we all wait patiently for the new Nigerian Health minister, and we form our opinions about his/her job…
On the regulation of Nigerian health professionals
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An anonymous commentator on the last post mentioned that the next Minister must put in place a regulatory body to which health…
DFID launches PATHS II in Nigeria
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The UK Department for International Development has just launched the second phase of the Partnerships for Transforming Health Systems in Nigeria. The…
Who will cast the first stone?
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by ndubuisi edeogaIt seems everywhere I look its always bad news coming from Nigeria, bad news about Nigeria and an even worse…
Why are we not all celebrating?
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by ndubuisi edeoga The National Health Bill finally came to life after a very long gestation…good…APGAR (used to assess children’s health imediately…
Six weeks...
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by ndubuisi edeoga That’s how long it has been estimated that it takes to develop a new habit. Some will argue that…
Can we walk the walk: Yes we can?
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Charity they say begins at home, have we covered our bases as we go on in the fight for equitable distribution of…
Health Education: Not for Health Professionals alone II
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by Ndubuisi Edeoga Although we see more glaring statistics out of our great country, and see the many opportunities pass us by,…