There is a reverse side to Nigeria’s medical brain drain. Healthcare professionals from the diaspora are showing their readiness to come back home and establish medical facilities. Dr Chinonso Egemba and Regions Healthcare are excellent examples of what it is like to take advantage of this ‘brain gain’ to support the growth of Nigeria’s health […]
NHIA ACT: FG Inaugurates Committee On Operational Guidelines. PSN seeks legislation to redress drug scarcity in public hospitals. Need to Improve Access to Micronutrient Supplements for Pregnant Women in Nigeria. Funding difficulties impede family planning service provision ― FG. NAFDAC destroys products worth N326m in Nasarawa. Meningitis kills 38 in Jigawa. Mpox remains public health […]
By Oluoma Omeje, Joy Uzoho, Patience Adejo and Abdulmajeed Abdulsalam (Lead Writers) In February 2023, the Director General of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Professor Mohammed Sambo, inaugurated a committee to develop the NHIA Operational Guidelines. As the committee works to meet the 4-week deadline they have been given, here are learnings from Ghana […]
Any effort to strengthen health systems must begin at the primary healthcare level, as it is the foundation of a nation’s healthcare. To boost Ogun State’s PHC system, in 2020, the state government committed to establishing at least one functional and well-equipped primary health centre in each of the 236 wards in the state. The […]
By Vivianne Ihekweazu & Onyinye Oranezi (Lead writers) “We’ve learned collectively that transparency, openness, and the communication of credible information to people in real-time results in functional responses by people”- Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director of WHO Health Emergencies Programme Communications during public health emergenciesThe COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the significance of credible information and communication, as […]
