Top Ten News Items on Health, July 28 2017
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FG committed to elimination of viral hepatitis in Nigeria by 2021. NHIS controversy worsens as Reps reject agency’s budget. Nigeria sets up task force…
Muhammad Pate’s resignation, a profound loss for Nigeria
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On Tuesday 23rd July, the health sector in Nigeria was rocked by the resignation of the Minister of State for Health, Dr…
Nigerian Ministers of Health communicating with new media tools
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Communication is critical to leadership, critical to management, and extremely critical to health care; from the nurse to the Minister. Communication lies…
Call 999 - ABUJA
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Once again, as Nigerians, we bow our heads in shame. On the 1st of October 2010, there was a bomb blast right…
My Chief - The Honourable Minister of Health
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In 1996, I started my one year housemanship programme in an unlikely location; Abia State University Teaching Hospital (ABSUTH), Aba. While not…
Four Ministers in four years: can our Ministry of Health find the leadership it so desperately needs?
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This article first appeared in the new country edition of AFRICA HEALTHIn the last four years of the Yar’Adua/Jonathan presidency, Nigeria had…
How did it get to this full blown crisis in our health sector?
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The simmering crisis in our public health care sector has now become a disaster as staff working in hospitals managed directly by the Federal…
The Minister of Health, Resident doctors and strikes
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Minister and Perm Sec of FMOH Since resumption of office, the Minister of Health has faced challenges of industrial disharmony in the health…