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Grange unveils plans

The optimism surrounding the recent appointment of Professor Adenike Grange as health minister seems justified looking at recent reports. In her first meeting with key stakeholders in the Nigerian health…

Is your health digging an unhealthy hole in your pocket?….

The provision of private health care in Nigeria is changing. This change is most profound among staff and dependants of the public and organised private sector. Previously …this was the…

Why you should give blood

Found this extremely important posting on Naijablog. Just as important is to ask Nigerians and Africans in the Diaspora to become organ donors. I know quite a few country men…

NIGERIAN CITIES DROWN IN MOUNTAINS OF GARBAGE

Things have never been this bad. Our epileptic industrialisation is leaving problems we cannot cope with. If I told my son that as early as 1970s a refuse disposal van…

MCDN awakes…Kerosene explosions continue

NTA news....reports the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria is holding its annual congress in Abuja and has made a strong statement against the advertising by alternative medicine practitioners promising…

In memory of Dr Ihekweazu, health centre controversy and health as cash cow

Avid followers of this blog would have noticed that Chikwe was off to Nigeria for a while recently. This was due to his bereavement, his father Dr Umelobi Ihekweazu having…

Testing is free, drugs are free, go for voluntary counselling and testing!

Flipping through the dailies in Nigeria, it is good to note how HIV/AIDS prevention messages have evolved and developed ....from the days of "AIDS KILLS!". Kudos to NACA...and their communications…

Still on Covenant Univerity's compulsory HIV testing

The insistence of Covenant University, believed to be Nigeria's best private University to justify their policy of pre-graduation compulsory HIV and pregnancy screening as a pre-requisite to graduation has continued…

Challenges for the new team, radiation in Niger Delta & Covenant University

The appointment of Professor Grange as Minister of Health continues to draw plaudits as many commentators compare her appointment to that of another paediatrician Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti in 1985. Professor…

Welcoming Adenike Grange and Gabriel Aduku

Finally after nearly two months of waiting, Nigeria has a new Minister of Health, Professor Adenike Grange. Dr. Grange has served as the President of the International Paediatric Association, a…