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FG Unveils Pain Free Hospital Initiatives by dunsman(f): 3:46pm On Jul 16, 2015 |
FG unveils Pain Free Hospital Initiatives
JULY 16, 2015 : NAN
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The Federal Ministry of Health and the American Cancer Society have
unveiled the Pain-Free Hospital Initiative in four pilot federal tertiary
health facilities.
The Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr Linus Awute, who launched
the project in Abuja on Thursday, said the project would improve
access to essential pain medicines in Nigeria.
Awute said the initiative was a one-year hospital-wide quality
improvement intervention to integrate pain treatment into service
delivery by providing education for patients and staff, raising
motivation, awareness and documenting pain levels.
“It will equip staff to assess pain and provide high quality first line
treatment,” Awute said.
He said the initiative targets large national referral and teaching
hospitals to provide simple accessible training for physicians, nurses,
pharmacists and other health care providers.
According to him, the four hospitals selected for the pilot projects are
University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, University College Ibadan,
University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Enugu and the National Hospital
Abuja.
“It is envisioned that the one-year pilot project will further refine the
design of the project model for effective replication in other federal
tertiary health facilities across the country,” he said.
Awute said in 2012, no fewer than 177, 000 people were estimated to
have died in moderate or severe pains from HIV or cancer.
“In the same year, the utilisation of narcotic medicines such as
morphine was enough to treat 266 people, representing 0.2 per cent
coverage in pain treatment need.
“In response to this challenge, the ministry approved the collaboration
with the American Cancer Society’s Treat the Pain Programme to
improve access to essential pain medicine,” said Awute.
The permanent Secretary said morphine was now on the essential
medicine list, adding that 19.2Kg of pulverized morphine was imported
to treat 3000 patients in Nigeria.
He said the American Cancer Society ‘Treat the Pain’ would provide
technical support to the ministry in this regards.
In her address, the Director Food and Drug in the ministry, Dr Vera
Ogbechi, said the need for the morphine-equivalent analgesics in
Nigeria was 1,122Kg.
She said this was based on the annual deaths from HIV and Cancer and
not including pain from other causes.
Ogbechi said the collaboration would address challenges of availability
of the drugs, insufficient clinical training, and poor access to health
care. |
Re: FG Unveils Pain Free Hospital Initiatives by Nobody: 3:47pm On Jul 16, 2015 |
Re: FG Unveils Pain Free Hospital Initiatives by dunsman(f): 3:49pm On Jul 16, 2015 |
Re: FG Unveils Pain Free Hospital Initiatives by maverickdude(m): 3:56pm On Jul 16, 2015 |
That wil b rili nice |
Re: FG Unveils Pain Free Hospital Initiatives by Nobody: 3:59pm On Jul 16, 2015 |
and where was this innovation during GEJ's administration? funny to know that the innovation existed then but some selfish polithiefians would not allow it to be implemented. ride on baba... |
Re: FG Unveils Pain Free Hospital Initiatives by LoveMachine(m): 6:24pm On Jul 16, 2015 |
Nice development. |
Re: FG Unveils Pain Free Hospital Initiatives by disloman(m): 6:31pm On Jul 16, 2015 |
No source? |
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