Making our Voices Count: Active Citizenship for Health
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We can see from other sectors in Nigeria, how active citizenship is driving change. From the elections, to the increased responsiveness of…
Waiting for the promised Change in the Health Sector
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This piece is contributed by Remi Adeseun. Remi is a pharmacist and health sector entrepreneur, Chairman of Rodot Nigeria Limited (a Medical…
A Preventable Death: How our poor Medical Emergency Services kill Nigerians
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We receive many pieces for publication on Nigeria Health Watch. We review these with a great sense of responsibility regarding what should…
Defining the Health Sector of our Dreams in Nigeria – Future of Health Conference 2015
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On Thursday June 18 2015, Nigeria Health Watch invites you to join health professionals, health enthusiasts, government agencies and the media to…
Hajia Fatima Muhammad - Working to improve the Lives of Women in Northern Nigeria
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Nigeria has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world with 560 women dying for every 100,000 live births. Although…
Putting Health on the Agenda of the Nigerian Elections: a Call to Action
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It’s election season in Nigeria, and the volume of the debates online and offline are reaching a deafening pitch. Interestingly the focus…
How strikes are killing the Public Healthcare Sector and why it may be difficult to reclaim
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An interesting scenario played out in 2014. After a strike that lasted about two months, all resident doctors in Nigeria were sacked;…
Demonizing Nigerian Doctors - an Agenda for Change
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Reflecting on the recent doctors strike, and the threat by other health sector workers of further strikes, we took a fresh look…
On World TB Day - what we should know and do
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The World TB Day passed quietly in Nigeria. The government probably prefers it this way. Nigeria is among the 22 high TB…
Finally some innovation drivers in the health space: Launch of the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria
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Our friend and colleague; Dr Femi Sunmonu, Director of PurpleSource Healthcare, a healthcare management and investment company transforming the mass market private…
IBORI: What does 50 million pounds really mean?
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Guest post by Chima Onoka Maxwell lost his wife Ufuoma last December. She was pregnant and started bleeding before her time of…
An air ambulance to India
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A friend of mine travelled from Lagos to New Delhi for a business meeting, and called me shortly after his return. “Chikwe,…
Radio, bucket, and a bicycle - improving healthcare provision in Nigeria
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by ndubuisi edeogaI have been reading through Sonia Shah’s book “The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years”. She discussed…