Thought LeadershipProf Grange's new job By Chikwe Ihekweazu April 28, 2009 1 Mins read ….we are quick to forget. Professor Adenike Grange Former Minister of Health, who lost her job from the Umaru Yar’Adua administration over… Read more
Thought LeadershipMalaria...too common? By Chikwe Ihekweazu April 25, 2009 2 Mins read I remember growing up in Nigeria, through primary and secondary school…the several bouts of malaria, the painful chloroquine shots and a few… Read more
Thought Leadership2 Health Meetings in Nigeria By Chikwe Ihekweazu April 24, 2009 1 Mins read The second Nigeria National Health Conference (NHC2009), will hold on 8-10 June 2009, at the Le Meridien Ibom Hotel and Resort, Uyo,… Read more
Thought LeadershipSome Lives are more valuable than others… By Nigeria Health Watch April 22, 2009 2 Mins read by ndubuisi edeoga Eric Arthur Blair, some of you would know him as “George Orwell” said it years ago in his famous… Read more
Thought LeadershipPfizer settles...but what of their collaborators at home? By Chikwe Ihekweazu April 14, 2009 2 Mins read While we celebrate “justice” for Pfizer, as we did for Siemens and Halliburton…in their dealings with Nigeria…the real devil is among us,… Read more
Thought LeadershipPfizer settles Nigeria Trovan law suit By Nigeria Health Watch April 8, 2009 1 Mins read The pharmaceutical company, Pfizer has reached an out of court settlement in the suit over the use of Trovan in a meningitis… Read more
Thought LeadershipWhat is the "cost" of a life in Nigeria By Nigeria Health Watch April 7, 2009 3 Mins read by ndubisi edeoga There they go again. I read in the papers that 4 teaching hospitals were slated for renovation….again. The last… Read more
Thought LeadershipMental Health Care in Nigeria; the forgotten issue By Chikwe Ihekweazu April 5, 2009 2 Mins read A few good things are happening in Nigeria. One of this is the emergence of a news medium called 234NEXT….which led this… Read more
Thought LeadershipThe case of the missing bride By Chikwe Ihekweazu March 30, 2009 2 Mins read Missing bride? Yes…the bride in the health sector has to be the patient. The person who it is all about, the centre… Read more
Thought LeadershipOnchocerciaisis on the verge... By Chikwe Ihekweazu March 23, 2009 2 Mins read If you have been to the headquarters of the World Health Organisation, you will notice this stature right in front of the… Read more
Thought LeadershipMedical Accidents: Are doctors still burying their mistakes? By Chikwe Ihekweazu March 18, 2009 8 Mins read Our recent blog on the words of the Minister of Health regarding the attitudes of doctors and nurses to work in public… Read more
Thought LeadershipHIV access to treatment and prayer houses By Nigeria Health Watch March 15, 2009 1 Mins read It was a busy afternoon when the text arrived from my colleague whom I had met working on HIV in the UK… Read more
Thought LeadershipStrong words by the Minister... By Chikwe Ihekweazu March 13, 2009 1 Mins read “You are killing the patients and it is our duty to entrench discipline if our health system must go back to what… Read more
Thought LeadershipProfessor Akunyili, Mrs Yar Adua and maternal mortality By Chikwe Ihekweazu March 11, 2009 2 Mins read ….you might wonder what our Minister of Information and our First Lady; Hajiya Turai Umaru have to do with women dying around… Read more