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  • Relief as lawmaker inaugurates Surulere clinic

    Relief as lawmaker inaugurates Surulere clinic

    There was jubilation in Surulere Local Government, Lagos State, over the weekend when House of Representatives Leader Femi Gbajabiamila inaugurated the Surulere Clinic at Baracks area.

    Residents, workers, stakeholders and other dignitaries witnessed the short and informal ceremony.

    Addressing the attendees, Gbajabiamila recalled the difficulties encountered in completing the project, which took off over 10 years ago.

    He said: “This project is over 10 years old. At a point, the things we bought were vandalised and stolen. The local government chairman then could not help. There were some powerful people, who said it was over their dead body that this project would be completed.”

    The lawmaker hailed the local government’s Executive Secretary, Mrs. Bamidele Hussain, for her support and dedication to the completion of the project and other projects in the local government.

    The lawmaker said the hospital standard would be at par with that of other local government clinics across the world.

    He donated three fully equipped ambulances, one each, to three hospitals in the local government at Akerele, Randu and the new Surulere Clinic, to commemorate the day.

    “I place a lot of importance on health matters. Every year, we have our two-day health festival in Surulere, where we bring in health facilitators from around the world. We must pray that nobody has any reason to visit this place, but if you do, you will enter and come out in good health.

    “It is important that we understand that health is wealth. We would not compromise, but we will ensure it measures up to the standard of any local government clinic across the world,” he said.

    Mrs. Hussain, who played host at the event, said the clinic would be named “Hon Femi Gbajabiamila Clinic”.

    She said: “The provision of this facility is based on the sustainability of the health care sector in our local government. That is why the package of the facility revolves around a comprehensive health services.”

  • El-Rufai shuts Govt House Clinic

    El-Rufai shuts Govt House Clinic

    •Redeploys doctors, nurses to general hospitals

    Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has shut the Government House Clinic and redeployed its medical personnel to public hospitals.

    Drugs and equipment have been moved to the Yusuf Dansotho Hospital, Tudun Wada, Kaduna, while Government House workers have been directed to patronise the Yusuf Dansotho Hospital.

    The governor, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Samuel Aruwan, said the decisions were taken to boost the health care system.

    The statement said: “There are not yet enough doctors in the public health system. Therefore, it is not prudent to assign doctors, nurses and other medical workers to serve Government House alone. It is more beneficial to the wider society if the services of these medical personnel are made available to the public in a general hospital.

    “In addition, it is better that everyone working in the Government House uses the same health facilities as the public.”

    It said El-Rufai’s directive has been implemented.

    “Workers from the Government House Clinic have been redeployed to public hospitals. Drugs and medical equipment in the clinic have been evacuated and are being put to use at the Yusuf Dansotho Hospital.

    “Henceforth, Government House workers will go to the nearest public hospital to the Government House as other citizens.”

  • El-Rufai shuts Govt House Clinic, redeploys staff to General Hospitals

    El-Rufai shuts Govt House Clinic, redeploys staff to General Hospitals

    Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has closed the Government House Clinic and redeployed its medical personnel to public hospitals.
    The drugs and equipment in the clinic have also been moved to the Yusuf Dansotho Hospital, Tudun Wada, Kaduna, while Government House staff have been directed to henceforth use the Dansotho Hospital for their medical needs.
    Governor El-Rufai in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Samuel Aruwan said the decisions were taken to boost the healthcare system in the state by moving medical personnel, drugs and equipment to public hospitals.
    According to the statement, “There are not yet enough doctors in the public health system in Kaduna State, therefore it is not prudent to assign doctors, nurses and other medical staff to serve Government House alone. It is clearly more beneficial to the wider society if the services of these medical personnel were made available to the public in a general hospital.
    ” In addition, it is better that everyone working in the Government House uses the same health facilities as the general public.”
    Dr. Muhammad Bello Armaya’u, Medical Director of Yusuf Dansotho Hospital, confirmed that the hospital has received the drugs and equipment.
    He expressed gratitude to the Governor for the move, promising that the hospital will make good use of the extra capacity it has received.

  • LUTH reopens IVF clinic

    LUTH reopens IVF clinic

    The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, has revived its Assisted Reproductive Clinic. It folded up in the 90s due to lack of funding. Now known as LUTH Assisted Fertility Clinic (AFC), the duo of Professors Osato Giwa-Osagie and Oladapo Ashiru, pioneered the clinic that produced the first test tube baby in Nigeria in March 1986. They both were at  the event, glowing with pride.

    Going down memory lane, Prof Giwa-Osagie said the clinic through its IVF programme treated 20 patients between 1984 and 1994, “but we could not sustain it because of lack of institutional and government support.

    Thereafter, the IVF services in Nigeria were largely made available by the private hospital. LUTH IVF clinic, according to him, “was the first in West, East and Central Africa.  Only Egypt and South Africa were the two African countries that had it before Nigeria in IVF history.”

    Prof Giwa-Osagie said the full commencement of IVF services at LUTH had to wait for the ideal environment to be provided by the management. The perfect environment include sterile atmosphere for the laboratory and theatre; tiling of the laboratory and theatre; design of fee structure; acquisition of modern equipment; dedicated workforce and recruitment of patients.

    The hospital, he said, is setting a goal of producing not less than 200 babies through IVF per annum.  “I am proud that this is coming to be as there is no short cut in life. Good legacies are built through perseverance, consistency and determination. The reopening of this clinic put history in the right perspective.

    “This marks a return of IVF where it started in West Africa. We are set to charge lesser price than what obtains in the private sector. There are now about 45 IVF centres in the country,” he said.

    Prof A shiru was beside himself with joy and said international standard should be maintained in the clinic and it “includes training of embryologists, who will be certified and willing to train other embryologists.  Success of IVF is in the laboratory. “World Health Organisation (WHO) standard should be brought back here, including documentation,” he said.

    LUTH’s Chief Medical Director (CMD), Prof Chris Bode, said the clinic will make IVF service affordable, accessible and available, “As this is a foremost institution of excellence and we have the experts here that get things done,” he said.

  • Operators donate chest clinic to Akwa Ibom govt

    Operators donate chest clinic to Akwa Ibom govt

    Agbami Oil Field operators led by Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited, a subsidiary of Chevron, have donated a fully-equipped chest clinic for the treatment of tuberculosis and other heart related diseases to Akwa Ibom State.

    The clinic, which has been inaugurated, has been handed over to the state. The facility is at the Immanuel General Hospital, Afaha Eket, Eket Local Government Area.

    The Governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel, noted that tuberculosis is a dangerous disease and, as such, all hands must be on deck to tackle it.

    Emmanuel spoke of the need for government and partners to re-strategise and channel their efforts towards tackling the new challenge of drug resistant strains of tuberculosis.

    The governor, represented by the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dominic Ukpong, described tuberculosis as a devastating public health problem that has been responsible for a high level of morbidity and mortality in Nigeria and the world at large.

    He commended Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited and partners  for the gesture, adding that the clinic would mark a great turning point in the control and possible elimination of the disease in the state.

    His words: “Tuberculosis is a known chronic and debilitating disease responsible for a high level of morbidity and mortality globally.

    “According to a recent national prevalence survey of tuberculosis, Nigeria has the highest prevalence in the African continent and the third highest in the world.

    “In Akwa Ibom state, thousands of residents have been diagnosed to have tuberculosis of which over 90 percent of cases diagnosed have been successfully treated using the anti tuberculosis multi – drug therapy.

    “However we are being faced by new challenge in the emergence of drug resistant strains of tuberculosis to treatment, therefore there is a dire need for government and partners to re-strategize with the aim of channeling our efforts towards not only to the prevention of the resistant strain of the disease but also to ensure that those diagnosed with this strain are well catered for and treated in a controlled environment.

    “The donation of this chest clinic facility by Star Deepwater Petroleum and its partners in the Agbami field is a great step towards the right direction. This gives the government and indeed residents of Akwa Ibom a base which TB management can be carried out”

    Director, Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited, Jeffrey Ewings, represented by Mr. Sam Otuoye said the facility which happened was the 25th provided to different parts of the country including the FCT Abuja, came fully equipped with a standard x-ray machine, male and female wards, treatment rooms, laboratories and gene xpert machine.

    “This occasion demonstrates yet another example of the Co-venturer’s determined efforts to improve the healthcare system in Nigeria. I therefore encourage our recipient to effectively manage the chest clinic for the benefit of the people and ensure its sustainability”, he said.

    The other partners are: NNPC, Famfa Oil Limited, Stat Oil Nigeria Limited and Petroleo Brasileiro Nigeria Limited.

  • Ondo to establish clinic for adolescents

    Ondo State Government has said it is building a well-being clinic for young people at the state’s Specialist Hospital, Akure.

    Its Health Commissioner, Dr Dayo Adeyanju, who spoke in Akure at the International Youth Day (IYD) celebration, said it will consolidate on the success of its adolescent and youth friendly programme.

    He described adolescence as a phase where young people need to make choices based on right information, adding that the state initiated the Adolescent and programme to support and advise youths on their health.

    “We are also retraining our health workers on the need to be friendly to young people who come for counselling on their reproductive health issues. From the gate man, to the apex health worker, their disposition would determine whether their patients would come back or not.”

    The commissioner spoke of the readiness of his ministry to embrace a multi-sectoral approach, and as such, collaborate with its education, information and culture counterparts to infuse into the schools curricular reproductive health issues.

    “There is no question about the fact that our youths are susceptible to  psycho-substance abuses, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and other related ills in the society that have necessitated a holistic action plan,” Adeyanju said.

    “The well-being clinic will soon be inaugurated, and is not limited to the sick, but also healthy people who will be given proper orientation on their health status,” he added

    The commissioner said the ministry had been using information communication technology (ICT), especially cellphones, to reach out to the people and familiarise the youth with numerous health programmes and sensitisation technologically.

    Adeyanju, who assured that the government would continue to create an enabling environment for young people, urged them to engage in things that would make them become great in life.

    He said the government has employed many young people in all its health facilities and institutions, adding that the state’s University of Medical Sciences in Ondo is offering postgraduate studies in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G), adding that it would start in October by admitting direct entry students only for this year.

  • Customs inaugurates clinic in Lagos

    The Nigeria Customs Service (NSC) has inaugurated a clinic at its Western Marine Command, Apapa, Lagos, to take care of its officers and the host community.

    The clinic was named after the wife of its Comptroller-General, Hayija Sa’Adiya Abdullahi Dikko.

    Speaking at the inauguration, Abdullahi, who was represented by the Deputy Comptroller-General, Musa Tahir, said he was happy the Controller in charge of the Western marine, Umar Yusuf, had rehabilitated the command within his eight months in office.

    Abdullahi said the clinic came at a time when the Customs introduced operation “Hawk Descend” which will make the smugglers look for alternative ways outside the roads and bushes, stressing that the waterways will be their next port of call.

    “I know that officers and men of the command are up to the task because they have the necessary wherewithal and coupled with their training on Ak47, I know you are equally well-prepared,” he said.

    Abdullahi said that the service is serious about the welfare  of its officers, adding that Usman had keyed into the vision of ensuring that the officers are taken care of through the provision of the clinic.

    He said that the clinic is for the officers and also the host community, pointing out that Customs management will continue to support the command.

    The Customs boss assured further that management will ensure that the clinic serves optimally, justifying  the purpose for which it was established,while providing all the necessary facilities.

     

  • Church renovates school clinic

    Church renovates school clinic

    The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Israel Assembly Area, has renovated a clinic at the Agidingbi Senior Secondary School in Ikeja, Lagos. The Pastor-in-charge of RCCG Israel Assembly Zone, Pastor Dapo Awosika, inaugurated the upgraded clinic in the school last week.

    He said the project was a result of the church’s policy to focus on Corporate Social Responsibility programmes in order to be more relevant to its host communities.

    “One of the cardinal visions of the church is not to only minister to the spiritual needs of members, but minister to their welfare and social needs,” he said.

    Working with this mandate from the RCCG Headquarters, Awosika said the Israel Assembly Area decided to refurbish the sick bays of the schools in its immediate environment.

    He said though Agidingbi Grammar School had a dedicated room for the sick bay, it was not in use.  To transform it, he said, the church refurbished the room taking care of electrical and plumbing works after which it was furnished with clinical equipment and medical consumables.

    Awosika hoped that the clinic would help to meet the medical needs of students and members of staff during school hours.

    Reacting to the gesture, the school principal, Bakare Olufemi thanked the church for upgrading the clinic from it deserted condition.

    He assured the church that it had fulfilled its CSR in the right place, and promised that the school would maintain the equipment and make use of the clinic.

    The Tutor General/Permanent Secretary, Mrs Iyabo Osifeso, however, urged the church not to relent in giving back to the society.

    She said the government has really tried in putting things in place, but cannot do all alone since there are over 600 public schools in Lagos being offered free education.

    “If you have 10 loaves of bread you would actually cut it into bits and pieces for all your children to be able to get,” she said.

    Addressing the pupils, she advised them to improve on their learning outcomes because success is achieved through hardwork.

    The Senior Prefect of the school, Chidiebere Wisdom, promised that the pupils would make good use of the sick bay.

     

  • Foundation holds sports clinic

    The Big Mike Foundation hosted over 3,000 school children during its yearly sport clinic tagged “The Big Mike Sports Clinic” at the National Stadium, Abuja.

    Speaking at the event, chairman of the foundation, Chief Chike Erokwu, said the objective of the clinic was to keep children active and also mentor them to become good leaders through sports.

    Erokwu said: “Everybody knows that the children hold the future of the nation.  They are our tomorrow; but nobody is thinking about them. The foundation believes in sponsoring and supporting the Nigerian children. We are here to empower the children tech them the right values and how to be leaders through sports.

    “We have Big Mike Football Club which we started last year. The club sponsors and helps talents. If we see someone that has talent but does not have backing, we assist in promoting that talent.”

    The coordinator of the event, Mr stephen Osadebay, said the foundation, which is in the partnership with the National sports commission (NSC) and Ministry of Youth and Affairs, would sponsor talent picked from the event.

  • One-day cricket awareness clinic ends in Ilorin

    One-day cricket awareness clinic ends in Ilorin

    THE Nigeria Cricket Federation and Kwara State Cricket Association organized a one-day cricket awareness programme for schools yesterday at the Main-Bowl of the stadium complex. The clinick has been described as a welcomed development toward reviving the sport in the state.

    The 1st Vice Chairman of the Kwara State Cricket Association, Mallam M. J. Daudu, while briefing newsmen after the programme which brought over 400 students from 25 secondary schools in the state together said that it’s a good home coming for cricket in the state, pointing out that cricket started in Kwara state.

    ‘Cricket started in Kwara state. As a matter of fact, Kwara has the first Cricket Pitch (Oval) in Nigeria, and most of the nation’s cricketers started from this state’, he said.

    Kwara State Stadium Manager and Board member of the Cricket Federation of Nigeria, Wale Obalola, who coordinated the programme expressed satisfaction with the turn-out and conduct of students and their officials during awareness programme and clinic, which he said, is a follow up to the desire of the Board to take cricket to the grassroots.

    According to Obalola, cricket equipments like bats, balls and wickets will be distributed to the schools after the awareness programme.

    The students were given launch packs and transport fairs to and fro their various schools, and were also kitted for the exercise.

    Obalola said that the programme was a follow-up to the National U-15 Boys and U-17 Girls Cricket Championship in Abuja in June, where Kwara state represented the North Central.

    Kwara came fourth in the U-15, and 3rd in the U-17, and four boys and three girls have been invited to the national team in preparation for the U-17 international meet in Uganda later in the year.

    One of the girls, Kehinde Abdulkadri won four laurels in the national competition. She won the Best Batman award, Upcoming cricketer of the competition award, the golden boot, while she was also adjudged as the Most Valuable Player of the competition..

    The Director of Sports, Tunde Kazeem and the Administrator of Kwara Football Academy, Mutiu Adepoju opened the clinic with demonstration games.