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FG unveils Pain Free Hospital Initiatives JULY 16, 2015 : NAN 1 Comment 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.

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Nigeria’ll support use of nuclear technology -Buhari
JULY 16, 2015 : OLALEKAN ADETAYO, ABUJA
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President Muhammadu Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said Nigeria under his
leadership would continue to support the use of nuclear technology for
peaceful purposes and human development only.
A statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi
Adesina, quoted the President as speaking during a meeting with
visiting Iranian Vice President for Executive Affairs, Mohammed
Shariatmadari, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The President was said to have told his guest that Nigeria welcomes
this week’s agreement between Iran and the six world powers on its
nuclear programme.
Buhari described the agreement as a major step towards ensuring
peace and stability in the Middle East.
The statement added, “The President said that as a signatory to the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Nigeria looks forward to the faithful
implementation of the terms of the agreement by all concerned parties.
“President Buhari, who received an invitation from the Iranian Vice
President to attend an upcoming Summit of Gas Exporting Countries in
Tehran, remarked that it was in the interest of developing countries to
maximize the use of their natural resources for the improvement of the
living conditions of their people.”
Shariatmadari congratulated Buhari on his election and assured him of
Iran’s support in the fight against terrorism and violent extremism.
“The government of President Hassan Rouhani of Iran advocates
moderation and departure from any form of extremism,” he said. www.punchng.com/news/nigeriall-support-use-of-nuclear-technology-buhari/

Cameroon bans women face veil over bombings
JULY 16, 2015 : AGENCY REPORT
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Cameroon has banned burqas (women face veil) in the northern part of
the country after two women, dressed in the religious garments, blew
themselves up last week in a suspected Boko Haram attack, a local
governor said on Wednesday.
The twin attacks in Cameroon’s northern town of Fotokol killed at least
13 people, the government said.
Governor of the Far North, Midjiyawa Bakari, said, “I took this measure
because of the security situation prevailing in the region.” http://www.punchng.com/news/cameroon-bans-women-face-veil-over-bombings/

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NPFL top scorer award to be named after Rasheed Yekini The country’s league organising body has put mechanism in place to name the Nigeria topflight highest goal scorer award after the fallen Super Eagles’ legend By Shina Oludare Jul 13, 2015 16:05:00 Nigeria Professional Football League top scorer award will be named after legendary Rasheed Yekini, the League Management Company has hinted. According Shehu Dikko, chairman of the league organising body, the move is to immortalize the fallen Super Eagles hero for his contribution to Nigeria football in his playing days. Aside from this, plans are in place for an end-of-the-season award for the top division which to him will create commercial value and additional revenues. “There is a broad plan to institute awards and honour outstanding players, officials, key stakeholders and fans in the league at the end of every season and there are a number of factors that led us to reach the decision to name one of these awards, that of the highest goal scorer after the late Rasheed Yekini,” said Dikko. “The awards is part of strategic plans of the LMC to create commercial value and additional revenues out of the assets inherent in the league property. "We considered the aspiration factor which seeks to let the players know that they too can become national heroes if they achieve excellence and make a success of their career. “It says to them that they too can become legends of the game and the society will honour them as we have sought to honour the late Yekini,” he concluded. Yekini played for UNTL Kaduna, Shooting Stars, Abiola Babes, Julius Berger and Gateway FC. m.goal.com/x/en-ng/news/13550102