New Case Of Ebola In Liberia:1 month,20 days After WHO's Free Declaration

           

Just one month and 20 days after the World Health Organization declared Liberia free of the Ebola Virus, the country is reporting a new case of the deadly Ebola virus disease.

Mr. Tolbert Nyenswah, Deputy Minister - designate for Disease, Surveillance and Epidemic Control confirmed to FrontPageAfrica Monday evening that the case was discovered after the death of the victim.

Nyenswah who heads Liberia Incidence Management Team during the Ebola outbreak confirmed that the reported case of the deadly Ebola virus was only detected from specimen taken from the corpse of a dead body.

Gates Foundation Partners With Nasarawa Govt. On Healthcare

             

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is paternering with the Government of Nasarawa State in the area of healthcare delivery. This project is to help boast primary healthcare delivery transformation in the thirteen local government areas of the state.

Funny Joke:So, who is the funniest??

           

Who is the funniest....Lol

1. HAUSA man who
removed his shoes to
enter a
taxi...




2.A TIV man who
watched the news and
waved
at the news reader.


3. IGBO man who went
to the bank with a
spanner to open a
bank account.

Man Records His Own Surgery On Smartphone And Is Shocked By What Medics Say About Him

           

An anaesthetist who trash talked her patient when she put him to sleep has been fined - after the patient recorded the whole operation on his smart phone.

Tiffany M Ingham, who was working as an anaesthesiologist in Reston, Virginia, was caught making rude and defamatory comments when a patient left the phone recording.

The man, who has been named only as DB in court according to his attorneys, had been worried about missing vital instructions after his colonoscopy procedure due to his recuperation - so he set his smartphone to record everything, which ended up including the rant.

When DB played the audio back on the way home, he heard that the team performing his surgery had mocked him as soon as he went under.

New Cases Of Ebola In Sierra Leone

               

Sierra Leone has announced the return of Ebola to its capital Freetown, dashing hopes that health authorities in the densely-populated city of 1.2 million had beaten the deadly outbreak.

Liberia was declared Ebola-free in May, but hopes that neighbouring Sierra Leone and Guinea would quickly follow suit have been dashed recently, with the weekly toll of infections in the two countries hovering around 25.
 

 The government’s National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) told AFP late on Tuesday that three cases had emerged in the east-end slum of Magazine Wharf — three weeks after the last known infections in the capital.
 

 Health officials said six people have been under observation since the first of the new cases — a casual labourer — tested positive on June 17.

UNFPA Said Nigeria Has The Highest Number Of VVF Cases In The World :(

           

The United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) has estemated that Nigeria has the highest number of women with Vesico Vagina Fistula.

With the estimated two million women in the world suffering from VVF, about 680,000 of them are Nigerians, mostly from the Northeast and Northwest.

This is even as a total estimated 800,000 Nigerian women living with the condition around the country represent about 40 per cent of the global burden.

VVF is described as abnormal opening between the virginal and the bladder, a condition experienced by a woman either as a result of prolonged labour during childbirth in which the unborn child presses tightly against the pelvis, cutting off blood flow to the vesico-vaginal wall, thereby leaving a hole or as a result of violent rape, especially in cases of child marriages.

Katsina Health Ministry Has 40 Percent Casual Workers

             

How can a state have about 40 percent of casual workers in its health ministry?

A committee constituted by the Katsina State government has said that 40 per cent of health workers in the state are either casual staff or volunteers.

Chairman of the committee, Dr Labaran Doro, who disclosed this while handing over their report to the state government, said urgent action must be taken to address challenges facing the sector.

Daily Trust reports that, the committee also discovered that staff and equipment are not equitably distributed among health centres.

Doro said short-term measures must be taken to provide succour, including provision of drugs at health facilities. Responding, Governor Aminu Masari said misapplication of resources had greatly affected sectors in the state.

UCTH Health Workers To Resume Strike

         

The Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital have threatened to resume strike.

In a letter sent to the Chief Medical Director of the UCTH, Dr Thomas Agan, at the weekend, the union called for immediate payment of their 2013 promotion arrears as well as salaries.

Health Insurance Provide Avenue For The Less Privileged People To Access Healthcare - Dr. Korie

             

The United Nations has declared every June 23 to mark Public Service Day.

Marking the event, some workers in separate interviews with NAN, has called on the three tiers of government and private organisations to guarantee improved healthcare services for better performances especially in the improvement of the National Health Insurance Scheme.

In his comment, Dr. Patrick Korie, the Managing Director, Managed Healthcare Services (NHIS provider), said that the scheme has been very successful.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Partners With Lagos Govt In Health Care

             

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is seeking partnership with the Lagos State government to strengthen primary health care in the state.

The foundation's deputy director, integrated delivery global development, Carlos Cuellar, made this known yesterday during a courtesy call on Governor Akinwunmi Ambode at the Lagos House, Ikeja.

MRI Services Now At DELSUTH

           

The Delta State University Teaching Hospital, Oghara recently received a new 1.5T Toshiba Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine from the immediate past governor of the state, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan.

Reflections:The Thomas Edison Story

                   

When a reporter asked Thomas Edison how it felt to have failed 25,000 times in his effort to create a simple storage battery, his reply was, “I don’t know why you are calling it a failure. Today I know 25,000 ways not to make a battery. What do you know?”

Thomas Edison was probably one of the greatest inventors in history. When he first attended school, his teachers complained that he was “too slow” and hard to handle. As a result, Edison’s mother decided to take her son out of school and teach him at home.

The young Edison was fascinated by science. At the age of 10 he had already set up his first chemistry laboratory. Edison’s inexhaustible energy and genius (which he reportedly defined as “1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration”) eventually produced in his lifetime more than 1,300 inventions.