Health

As part of efforts to mitigate the effect of the third wave of COVID-19 infection in Lagos State, the state government has activated 10 COVID-19 Oxygen Treatment and Sample Collection Centres. Lagos State Health Commissioner, Prof. Akinola Abayomi The state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, in a statement on Thursday, August 12, 2021, disclosed this while reviewing reports of ...

Chibuike Nwokorie is project officer with the Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance (NTCA). In this interview with our correspondent, he bares his mind on the new policy on Pictorial Health Warnings (PHWs) which must be on all tobacco products manufactured and sold in Nigeria starting June 23, 2021, and other sundry issues on tobacco control in Nigeria. Excerpts: Chibuike Nwokorie How ...

The Federal Government has reinstated her commitment towards a trans-fat free Nigeria by speeding up the gazette of the Oil and Fats Regulations. L-R: Akinbode Oluwafemi, ED of CAPPA, and Minister of State for Health, Senator Olorunimbe Mamora, during the visit The Minister of State for Health, Adeleke Olorunnimbe Mamora, who disclosed this in Abuja during the advocacy visit by ...

One COVID-19 related death was recorded on Monday, August 2, 2021 in Lagos, said Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi. Lagos State Health Commissioner, Prof. Akinola Abayomi Abayomi disclosed this in his Facebook account @ProfAkinolaAbayomi on Wednesday while giving the state’s COVID-19 update for Monday. He said the death had increased the state’s fatality figure from the virus ...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says the state recorded six COVID-19 related deaths within two days. Prof. Akin Abayomi, Lagos State Commissioner for Health Abayomi made the disclosure through his Facebook account @ProfAkinolaAbayomi, on Sunday, August 1, 2021 while giving the state’s COVID-19 update for July 30 and July 31. He said that the deaths increased ...

The Trans-fat Free Nigeria campaign coalition has urged the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) to help uphold the consumers rights to safe and healthy foods and right to accurate information on food labels so they can make informed decisions and stay healthy. L- R: Dr. Jerome Mafeni, Technical Advisor, Trans Fatty Acids Campaign at the Network for Health ...

“This pandemic has magnified every existing inequality in our society – like systemic racism, gender inequality, and poverty” – Melinda Gates When Melinda Gates made the above statement, many did not streamline it to what we see in our general policy system, and it is why I have decided to open this discourse with the quote. Trans fat foods In ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is failing in its duty and Africans have particular reason to feel aggrieved. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Its latest attack on alternative nicotine products is unscientific, dogmatic and an effective death sentence for millions of smokers who are trying to quit cigarettes, particularly those in less affluent nations ...

The Federal Government’s policy on Pictorial Health Warnings (PHWs) which officially kicked off on June 23, 2021, has taken the country a step further in compliance with the recommendations of the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC). A tobacco pictorial health warning By the new policy, all tobacco companies doing business in the country must include the ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have launched a new project to improve emergency response to health crises. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Photo credit: AFP / FABRICE COFFRINI / Getty Images In a joint statement posted on WHO website, the UN agencies said the project, called INITIATE2, would ...