•Lassa fever The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention, NCDC, today in an advisory to healthcare workers called for a heightened index of suspicion and strict compliance with Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) measures following a disturbing rise in Lassa fever infections among medical personnel. In a p...
•Health workers protest The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) has suspended its nationwide strike, 84 days after the industrial action began. This was announced in a communique issued by the union yesterday after its expanded National Executive Council (NEC) emergency meeting held in Abuja. According to the communique, the meeting was conven...
•Lassa Fever The Benue State Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Paul Ogwuche, has confirmed that four healthcare professionals are among those affected in the recent Lassa Fever outbreak in the state. Dr. Ogwuche disclosed that the affected health workers included three nurses and one community health worker, all of whom were acti...
•Health workers protest The ongoing strike by the Joint Health Sector Unions has entered the third month, crippling activities in government-owned hospitals across Nigeria, leaving patients stranded and forcing many to seek essential services outside public health facilities. Now in its third month, the industrial action has grounded critical ...
•Health workers protest Patients across public hospitals in the Federal Capital Territory and other parts of the country have decried the severe hardship caused by the ongoing strike by the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and the Assembly of Health Care Professional Associations, which began amid ongoing industrial action by resident docto...
•Red Cross personnel and bandits The international committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has raised the alarm over attacks on healthcare facilities and personnel in the Northwest region The Head of Sub-Delegation, ICRC Kano Roger Alhaddad, said this during a media roundtable in Kano. Alhaddad said recently incidents in states like Zamfara, Sokoto ...
•Doctors The federal government has promised to release N11.995 billion within 72 hours for the payment of outstanding arrears, including the accoutrement allowance, to doctors and other healthcare workers across the country. It was earlier reported that Dr Muhammad Suleiman, President of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, had told ...
•Protesting doctors Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) breathed a collective sigh of relief today as doctors under the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), FCTA Chapter, suspended a 3-day warning strike that began earlier in the day. The doctors, alongside other healthcare professionals across FCT general hospitals, district ho...
•Female Genital Mutilation The World Health Organisation said today it wanted a code of conduct to bar medical workers from performing female genital mutilation (FGM). Issuing fresh guidelines on how to halt FGM, the UN health agency highlighted the important role played by health professionals in detecting the widely condemned practice and su...
•Health workers threaten The Joint Health Sector Unions and Assembly of Healthcare Professionals, Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, Gusau, are demanding the Zamfara State Government, to immediately commence the payment of their six-month salary arrears from the adjusted CONHESS or face industrial action. They made the call while briefing jou...
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