₦airaland Forum

Chinwem:
ADvanced nurse practitioners in UK do everything that doctors do

Everything.

praxisnetworks:
Will you shut up already! Incompetent and inconsequential bunch of killers in white

Nicur:
Buhari is facing Pdp while lassa fever is facing Nigerians

flightz:
[s]you such a dumbo. The guy you are quoting is a medical doctor. Get sense brothe[/s]r

gcof:
not the way the government is going about it

AreaFada2:
US is just one country. Even US has a Secretary of Health & Human Services. Current one is Sylvia Matthews Burwell.

UK, Eire, France, Germany, Australia, South Africa, India and most commonwealth countries have one.

Surgeon-General is NOT minister of health, please don't mislead people. It's equivalent to Chief Medical Officer in UK. There is Chief Nursing Officer too.
I have even met both Liam & Sally, previous & Current CMOs.

Haba! Just admit and learn if you don't know something.

kindredspirit:
You Doctor guys must be really hung up on the beef between you and the JOHESU people. Look at the way you've gone gangsta and have started to cuss because you suspect somebody with a contrary view to yours is JOHESU. For the life of me, I don't know why y'all take this beef so personal, ever willing to lose your cool.

Please revert to the topic at hand and help us with informed perspectives on the way out of this LF scourge. Thank you.

poseidon12:
Thanks for correcting @teamchocolate. I was disturbed by his claim that most countries don't have ministers of health but surgeon general. He was very wrong there.

ReneeNuttall:
Av faith,rem its been God all d way.if it were up to us human,we wnt av gone dis far.

teamchocolate:
It's obvious ur not a doctor, and it's more obvious that ur not very smart, or else u won't be talking about a professor, a teacher of medical teachers that way! Ode! Receive sense IJN

glowshine:
It is time for me to go and buy cat o. I sure say d price of better cat go start to dey high small small.

Chinwem:
ADvanced nurse practitioners in UK do everything that doctors do

Everything.

Kangol99:
The Federal Government said on Tuesday that Lassa fever has claimed 63 lives out of 212 suspected reported from 62 local government areas in affected states.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, confirmed this at the emergency National Council of Health meeting in Abuja on the outbreak of the disease.

Adewole listed the 17 affected states as Bauchi, Niger, Taraba, Kano, Rivers, Oyo, Ondo, Edo, Plateau, Gombe, Nasarawa, Lagos, Delta, Ekiti, Ebonyi, Zamfara and Kogi as well as the FCT. He said there is high level of denial and conspiracy across some states, adding that health managers should not deceive executives by the pretence and silence.

The minister described the denial of Ebonyi to report five suspected cases and one death as conspiracy of denial. He said every state should consider itself at risk and put measures to contain and prevent the disease.

Adewole said the federal government would maintain high level of alert all year round to celebrate Lassa fever obituary next year. “With the resources available we will collectively eliminate the disease in Nigeria soon. “We have special facilities around us and we have adequate human resource to address the challenge.

“We will strengthen the Primary Health Care Centres across the country to enhance the surveillance mechanism,’’ he said. The minister said 5,000 Primary Health Care centres would be activated before the end of 2016.

“A committee had already been set up to map out health care centres across the country would benefit from the programme. “At least one primary health care centre will be functional in a ward,’’ said Adewole. In a related development, the minister announced that six most affected states will have Lassa fever diagnostic centres. He said the states are Niger, Nasarawa, Taraba, Plateau, Bauchi and Ondo states; this is in addition to the six existing Lassa fever treatment centres.

According to him, the centres are Lassa fever Treatment Centre, Irrua, Edo; University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri, Borno; Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano. Others are Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), University College Hospital Ibadan, and the National Centre for Disease Control, Asokoro, Abuja.

www.thenationonlineng.net/lassa-fever-claims-63-spread-to-17-states-minister/

Cc: lalasticlala

glowshine:
It is time for me to go and buy cat o. I sure say d price of better cat go start to dey high small small.

IzonOwei:
the federal government should come carry out absolute sanitation of canals as well as dirty zones...We pay taxes let us our taxes do its work..The government as a matter of fact should have a mapped out plan by now on a way to curb lassa fever...oh yes this government should be blamed...

teamchocolate:
So continue to be a dullard which u obviously already are

Doctors are not magicians, if there is not structure on ground, what do u want them to do.... Ebola was an imported epidemic which was lucky to have come through Lagos which had a health system in place that worked in terms of manpower, surveillance and other favourable factors... LF is a different kettle of fish.. it is primarily endemic and concentrated in the north where there is a lot of illiteracy and health non-awareness.. I think the minister is doing just fine. BTW I worked as a volunteer during ebola and I am working closely with Lagos state on LF too so I know what I am saying..
If ebola had not come in thru lagos, and doctors were not on strike, the story may have been different because the health system is weak.. the health system comprises of all components that make health work. Maybe u may like to visit the W.H.O page and look at the 6 building blocks of the health system and rate Nigeria... there has been a systemic rot in the health system over the years.. definitely over the past decade.. it's not something that can be remedied over 6 months..wish I cud give you some practical examples but can't do that without compromising my identity...
Anyway I do hope you are better informed...

Emekamex:
-Stop spewing trash, this isn't the first epidemic of Lassa Fever that Nigeria has suffered before. Very correct, nowhere did I state otherwise
->What previous governments have always done was to contain the spread by quickly identifying patients and quarantining those that may have had close contacts with them. That is the right thing to do.. presently in Lagos,where I am stationed, contacts have been identified, contact tracing is going on, active case management is also ongoing
->The first thing that your health minister did was to play politics and blame the previous administrations without even trying to contain the spread. That's incorrect, I can authoritatively tell u that before he made that statement, work was ongoing, however I was a bit disappointed in that statement.. it was the truth but was ill-timed
->FYI Ebola didn't end in Lagos, it later found its way to Rivers State and was also contained by the previous government so you have no excuses to give. Yes, I agree EEOCs were set up in Lagos and Port-Harcourt cuz those were the hotspots.. Political will was necessary to curb ebola in both states and this was in abundance.. Amaechi and Fashola did very good work and I commend them both..
->The present administration acted late and seem not to have the zeal to vigorously quarantine suspected patients and also contain the spread. It is not easy to quarantine suspects in a disease that is endemic and not exotic... That's part of the problems s.leone and Liberia had..
->Lassa Fever is more predominant in the North not just because of poor health care but because that area is more susceptible to bush burning due to adverse dry weather and these destroys the habitats of the contagious rats who have no other choice than to scavenge for food in human settlements and homes thereby infecting them. Glad that you admit that a weak health system is one of the reasons it is more predominant.. nowhere did I say it was the only reason... wasn't writing an essay on why LF is more predominant in the north.. gave a reason that had to do with the context of the argument...

kindredspirit:
You Doctor guys must be really hung up on the beef between you and the JOHESU people. Look at the way you've gone gangsta and have started to cuss because you suspect somebody with a contrary view to yours is JOHESU. For the life of me, I don't know why y'all take this beef so personal, ever willing to lose your cool.

Please revert to the topic at hand and help us with informed perspectives on the way out of this LF scourge. Thank you.

InyinyaAgbaOku:
Luth , where Ebola studies were carried out, is a FG hospital, and every state in the north has a federal hospital . So, what's your point?

Chinwem:
Or the ones you buy in traffic
Someone saw a rat bite sized hole in their gala wrapper so threw the whole thing away

francizy:
APC supporters be they doctors, professors have no brain for the bolded. This is because as an APC supporter, you must first go thru some brain rewiring and then set off to go attack every other individual out there. You never make sense any longer and you forget all you learnt in school and on jobs.

francizy:
APC supporters be they doctors, professors have no brain for the bolded. This is because as an APC supporter, you must first go thru some brain rewiring and then set off to go attack every other individual out there. You never make sense any longer and you forget all you learnt in school and on jobs.