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Health must be seen, felt and palpated in every household
With these words the new Nigerian Minister of Health, Professor Adenike Grange started of her the talk titled "Implementing Health Sector Reform for better Performance" delivered at the the annual…
Grange takes centre stage
The Lancet is one of the preeminent medical journals in the world. Every year it invites someone whose work has had, or has to potential to have a profound effect…
Health news in October
The quality of some of the health reporting in the Nigerian press is still extremely poor. It is obvious that most of those reporting health stories apart from the few…
Nigerian Doctors in the UK meet
The Medical Association of Nigerian Specialists and General Practitioners (MANSAG) is holding its annual conference and general meeting this weekend. For details click hereIn other news, the health minister proposes…
Why children continue to die from a disease that can be prevented with 50 cents!
...Our inability to raise coverage of routine immunisation in Nigeria remains one of the biggest scandals of our age. Huge outbreaks are still happening in 2007! 3 years ago I…
Health stories from the papers in September
Find a few health stories from the papers in September...nothing ground breaking but the first one could be very significant...read on!ThisDay: Yar’Adua says that the assignment of responsibility for primary…
Doctors in power: We are proud!
Since restoration of democracy in Nigeria in 1999, we in the medical profession have been extremely lucky to have some of our own in positions of power in Nigeria, called…
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…
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…
Notes from Nigeria: Akunyili @ 53, Luxury suites subsidising care for the poor in Garki Hospital and BUPA partners with Nigerian Hospital
From Chikwe in Nigeria:Being in Nigeria at the moment, I picked up the papers to catch up on what is going on (online versions of Nigerian newspapers provide a small…