All over the USA and UK, the annual mobilisation of Nigerians to donate towards “Medical Missions”is in full swing. The fund raising of the Anambra State Association, USA is in full swing. They raise hundreds of thousands of dollars each year and spend time in several health facilities in Anambra State. From Nimo, to Oko, to Ogbaru…they […]
As described in a previous post – the 63rd World Health Assembly has just concluded in Geneva. Despite the 7 journalists that were part of the Nigerian delegation, very little has been reported in the Nigerian press. We therefore summarise the three most important issues discussed. Three issues that caused the most furore at the Assembly was […]
Death is always a difficult topic. Yet, it is the inevitable end of all of us. Death is part of life’s journey built together in units of time. But today let’s challenge ourselves a bit with what happens immediately after death. Over the past few years I have on a couple of occasions had cause […]
We have on several occasions blogged about repeated episodes of Lassa fever in Nigeria, and the lack of progress on a coherent national approach in response to these outbreaks. We have advocated on several occasions for a federal agency that controls and monitors infectious and chronic diseases, as modelled on the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) […]
When we read the below quote in our Honourable Minister of Health’s speech to the recent World Health Assembly, we were worried, uncertain whether this was naivety or ignorance of the complexity of the health problems on hand in Nigeria. But, we were also worried that he might have simply read a script given to him by colleagues at […]
