Category: Health & Environment

The Federal Government of Nigeria has unveiled a health intervention programme that would provide free surgeries to 10,000 poor and needy Nigerians registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

The programme, scheduled to commence on July 18 in 46 health facilities across Nigeria, will also extend free breast and cervical cancer tests to 18,000 Nigerians as well as free diabetes and hypertension tests to 500,000 others.

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The Managing Director, Neimeth International Pharmaceuticals Plc, Dr Ebere Igboko Ekpunnobi has won the GSK Inventor Award for two patent applications covering her inventions related to discovering of compounds potentially useful for the treatment of a rare disease

Winners have emerged at the Nigerian Healthcare Excellence Awards (NHEA) 2016 at the Eko  Convention Centre in Lagos.

Vivian Alikali, Executive Secretary of the NHEA Organizing Committee, said the Awards were:

“born out of the need to recognize and appreciate personnel who were sold out to excellence, and had integrity. We also wanted to curb medical tourism, to show people that they can get their healthcare services here in Nigeria. We wanted people to appreciate their healthcare system again.”

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Three impactful innovators emerge as winners of the 2016 Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) awards for their various solutions in the health sector for the continent’s malaria and HIV/AIDS problems, and Nigeria’s Dr. Eddy Agbo is one of them

Indian, Nigerian surgeons successfully perform seven open-heart surgeries at the University of Lagos Teaching Hospital (LUTH)

An assistant professor of oral pathology, radiology, and medicine at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry, United States (U.S.) and co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the non-profit organization Health Trends, Azeez Butali, has developed a new application, Help My Pikin, that helps to lower the mortality rate of children aged five and under in Nigeria

Dr. Bennet Ifekandu Omalu, the man who discovered Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) has received a honorary Doctor of Science degree from the Xavier University in Louisiana in the United States of America, for massive contributions to science.

In the words of Dr. Bennet Ifekandu Omalu on receiving the honour:

“Got an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Xavier University of Louisiana today. I am deeply grateful and thankful.”

Dr. Omalu is a Nigerian forensic pathologist and medical examiner who was first to discover and publish findings of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) while conducting autopsy on former Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster in 2002.

Webster had died suddenly and unexpectedly, following years of struggling with cognitive and intellectual impairment, destitution, depression and suicide attempts. Although his brainlooked normal at autopsy, Omalu conducted independent and self-financed tissue analysis.

Dr. Bennet Ifekandu Omalu fought against efforts by National Football League to suppress his research on the brain damage suffered by professional football players.

Will Smith portrayed him in the movie “Concussion” which depicts the 47-year-old doctor’s efforts to publicize CTE.