We are doing some research to figure out the best SME employers in Abuja. Please help highlight what companies in Abuja are the best to work for and why? Thanks.

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We provide prepaid malaria care plans for an affordable fee and are looking for marketers to help us sell. Our product is loved by many so, with a little bit of work, you will be able to make over 100k in commissions alone every month. Interested? Positions open in Lagos and Abuja. Complete application here. https://forms.gle/mM4bJX2r8vrNtsSG6

Have you seen the slogan, 'kickthevirus' in the AFCON?

We saw it and looked into it so wrote a short post about what it's all about.

Read the post to learn what the 'kickthevirus' campaign is all about.

http://blog.wellahealth.com/2019/06/22/kickthevirus-african-nations-cup/

Nigerian e-health startup WellaHealth has launched a new rapid malaria testing service to market in partnership with a network of local pharmacies around Abuja.

Launched in 2015, WellaHealth provides a pharmacy automation system delivered via mobile, which deals with back-end management such a stock taking, electronic patient records, drug labelling and information, as well as allowing pharmacists to follow up with patients by SMS.

The startup has now launched a new service aimed at tackling malaria diagnosis and treatment; citing the falling success of malaria treatment in Nigeria – a country which it says is responsible for 27 per cent of malaria cases worldwide.

Patients experiencing potentially malarial symptoms can visit the WellaHealth website, enter their symptoms, and request a rapid malaria test. The platform directs them to the nearest available pharmacy, which will be waiting to perform a malaria test and confirm a diagnosis.

WellaHealth says thanks to the system, patients can obtain a test result within 15 minutes.

The pharmacies involved provide malaria care kits to patients with the relevant medication on the spot when diagnosis is confirmed.

Following diagnosis and treatment at a pharmacy, follow up SMS’s are sent to ensure full recovery from malaria or onward referral to a health facility if symptoms persist.

“Malaria presents a huge burden to individuals and businesses through lost man hours. Our service provides speedy, convenient malaria testing and treatment that enables a quick recovery and an early return to full productivity. Traditionally, one would need to go to a clinic and wait for hours to get test and treatment. With us, it’s all done at a local pharmacy in 15 minutes and we follow the user up via mobile to confirm recovery,” says Dr Ikpeme Neto, founder of WellaHealth.

The new malaria service can also be booked via a phone call, WhatsApp, or on Facebook Messenger.

Via disrupt Africa - http://disrupt-africa.com/2018/04/nigerias-wellahealth-launches-malaria-rapid-testing-service/

We are hiring for a product officer based in Abuja. See details below.

Product officer

Company description

HealthTech Global Solutions is a digital health startup working on reimagining the African health care space using technology. We are a small team of generalists that do whatever is required to move our work along. We are seeking aself-starter to join our team. We offer a relaxed and informal work environment and are passionate about changing the status quo. We don’t do egos and we value the ability to sell and communicate.

You will work on our new pharmacy-based malaria test and treatment solution for the public. Your main deliverable will be to get 10,000 people in Abuja to test and treat for malaria using our service. This will be done in conjunction with the product and business development leads.

See full description and how to apply via the link below:

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There has been a new change in the definition of hypertension.

Up until now, hypertension has been defined as blood pressure of greater than 140/90.

This has now changed on recommendations from the American college of cardiology and American heart association.

They are advising now that hypertension be defined as a blood pressure of greater than 130/80.

This will mean millions of more people will have hypertension and need treatment. Health care professionals need to start testing more people today, as, under these new guidelines, millions of new people will now have hypertension.

If someone is found to be hypertensive, encourage them to treat it via lifestyle changes and medications as to prevent heart attack strokes and kidney disease.

A short-term position has opened up in our firm. We are a health tech outfit creating new solutions for healthcare using technology and design thinking.

We are seeking a field support officer who will undertake practical tasks for us that include but are not limited to:

- Following up and supporting our customers and users in the field
- Meeting and dropping proposals to potential customers
- Handing out flyers and putting up stickers in various locations
- Running errands to support the setting up of a new health-related service

The perfect candidate will be an outgoing person that loves meeting and talking to new people.

He or she will be articulate and well-presented. Must be very tech-saavy as our solutions are tech-based.

It's important that he/she be self-driven and thoughtful in the way they go about tasks as this is an outcome-based role.

The role will be spent mostly out and about with minimal time spent in an office. All expenses will be covered and competitive remuneration for an entry level position will be offered. The role will last for 3 months with scope to extend for longer if the individual performs excellently.

A health or science related background or experience is a plus. OND, HND, Bsc all welcome to apply. If you know what RDT is and have performed one before, you're who we want. Ever done field work for an NGO before, do apply.

This would be ideal for new graduates, coppers or people between jobs.

Note - We've recruited new graduates from Nairaland in the past who've gone on to be quite successful. The key with those people has been their integrity, willingness to learn and work hard.

email jobs[at]wellahealth[dot]com your cv with a cover email explaining how you would convince someone you don't like to get a blood test.

How often do you fall sick and go to the clinic or lab to test for malaria?

If you're like the average person, this can be 3-4 times yearly.

Add up all the time you wait at the clinic that could amount to over a day.

Not to mention the effort it requires when you feel sick.

This is why we came up with a rapid malaria test and treat service available at www.wellahealth.com

Via the site, you can book a rapid malaria test and treatment near you.

It takes less than 15 minutes after you arrive at our partner location for you to get your test and drugs.

Use our 10% off coupon 'wellahealth10' on check out for a discount.

visit www.wellahealth.com whenever you're feeling sick.

If you're like us, you get several bouts of malaria a year. Whenever someone on our team gets malaria it takes up so much time and energy. First one has to go to the clinic, be referred for a test and then come back to collect a prescription for drugs. One then must go to the pharmacy to buy the drugs before taking it, sometimes forgetting to even take it.

Sometimes it's tempting to skip the clinic and go straight for the pharmacy but the illness might turn out to be something other than malaria. Leaving one sicker for longer and increasing resistance to malaria.

We've come up with a solution to help. Now you can get genuine malaria test and treatment at a pharmacy near you. The process takes less than 15 minutes and you're promised an excellent experience from start to finish.

Order you're malaria care now at www.wellahealth.com

put in the coupon code 'wellahealth10' to get 10% off for a limited time.

This is currently only available in the Wuse 2 area in Abuja.

visit the website for more info and to chat with us.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in developed countries. This is increasingly becoming the case in developing countries like Nigeria where lifestyles have changed to become more western.

According to a recent study in a medical journal, you can reduce your chances of having heart disease or dying from heart disease if you do these six simple things.

1. Don’t smoke, or stop smoking




2. Keep your BMI within the recommended level

BMI – Body mass index looks at your height and weight to measure how much body fat you have. The recommended optimal BMI is 18.5 to 24.9,

3. Exercise, even just 2.5 hours a week


4. Eat a healthy diet



5. Avoid being sedentary – Watching television – for long periods



6. Avoid alcohol or drink in moderation


Read details on each of these tips our blog - http://blog.wellahealth.com/2015/02/15/6-ways-to-improve-your-chances-of-beating-heart-disease/

Imagine that you wake up one morning not feeling too well. You begin to cough up green stuff and have some pain in your chest. You go to a doctor you don’t usually see and he diagnoses you with a chest infection. He asks you what previous medications you’re on but you didn’t bring them and can’t remember. He’s about to give you a prescription for augmentin, a penicillin. You quickly remember that you’re allergic to penicillin. He changes the prescription to clarithromycin.

You take this to your pharmacist who gives you the tablets with instructions on how to take it. You return home, take the medications for the next 3 days and then you start to see blood in your urine. You quickly search online for why this could be and you soon find that the clarithromycin your doctor put you on can make you pee blood if you usually take Warfarin.

A drug dictionary is where one would ordinarily think to go look for what medications mean and what they do. Pharmacists, however, do not use a drug dictionary per se. What they use is referred to as a formulary. The most commonly used formulary in most parts of the English speaking world, especially in the Commonwealth nations is the British National Formulary, abbreviated to the BNF.

Another important reference book is ‘Martindale, the complete drug reference’. It contains over 185,000 preparations and comes in 2 large copies. It can, however, be quite expensive and bulky. Hence the BNF is more widely used.

When you go to a pharmacy with a prescription for a new drug like clarithromycin, the pharmacist would need to collect a list of your previous medication. This enables her check to see if this new tablet has any drug-drug interaction with your regular tablets. In the instance above, if the pharmacy had your drug history, which they should, they would be able to cross check and detect that clarithromycin would lead to you bleeding while on warfarin. They would hence be able to advise you appropriately.

When filling prescriptions it’s important to reveal what drugs you usually take. Insist also that the pharmacy keeps a record. When adding new tablets, ask them to make sure no interactions take place with your usual medications. This process can often take a few minutes so be patient. It’s better to wait and get the right medications and advice than to rush out only to end up being rushed later to the hospital.

To help, refer your pharmacist to WellaHealth, we help them keep your drug records and check that all the medications you’re on don’t interact and are safe. If you’re a pharmacist reading this, get in touch by putting your phone number on our website and we will give you a call to set you up and start providing improved pharmaceutical care services to your patients.

From: http://blog.wellahealth.com/2017/07/31/blood-urine-drug-interactions/

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drop it here or I head to dstv's site.

There's a new forum designed for diabetic and hypertensive patients to meet, discuss and collaborate. It's made in Nigeria and designed for Nigerians. It aims to educate patients on how best to manage their conditions, connect to better healthcare providers and get insights on the latest in the treatment of symptoms through user generated content.

Simply log on at www.wellapatient.com

"Malaria drug I used to buy 850 is now 1580, the next Mosquito I lay my hands on would feel the full force of this regime".

How many of you saw this and laughed? Well, we saw it and got inspired to design a service to enable You receive malaria test and treatment in less than 20 minutes for the price you currently pay for a drug like Coartem.

Please take this survey to help us build this service properly for you.

You will get a voucher for a free malaria test and treatment when the service launches in your area. Thank you.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VXSMG7C

We collect health data and are planning on using machine learning to build predictive models in health care.

thebluntt:
Did you know #nobraday started in 2011 as a social media campaign to raise awareness for breast cancer screening? Don't use today as an excuse to be a ho. Check your boobs for lumps today & "Share" with a friend!

In honor of breast cancer awareness month, we are providing free SMS reminders for women to check their breasts. Please encourage the women in your life to sign up.
https://www.wellahealth.com/savethebreasts.aspx

BuzzAss:
I used to have a girlfriend who wears like two layers of underwear before wearing her clothes. The bra goes first, then followed by a corset and then the clothes. I sometimes wonder, don’t you feel hot inside all of these? Considering the part of the world where we are from, the hustle and bustle of the day generate a lot of heat and even if I wasn’t told, I know that these babes feel hot deep beneath. Who would have thought today that we will be talking about NoBra day today.

A whole lot of folks don’t know what the nobra thing is all about. I am guilty. I probably wouldn’t have known if I didn’t have to write this. Some of us just think it’s a day of lets-free-our-nipples but it goes past that. It’s a day dedicated to raise breast cancer awareness among women.

While most celebrities in the western world, likes of Rihanna, Amber rose and Jennifer Aniston enjoy their lives without a bra, around here in Naija, don’t feel bad if someone looks at you with “one-kind” eye if you go braless.

The National #Nobraday awareness started back in October 2011. Currently, October 13 has been accepted as the annual nobra day, to sensitize women in Nigeria about the wicked breast cancer that has stolen the lives of many women from all across the world.

Breast cancer, which was seen before as a plague peculiar to developed nations, is fast finding its way into developing nations. According to World Health Organization (WHO), about 50% of cancer cases and 58% of deaths from these cancer cases happened in less developed nations. This makes the plague a no-respecter of status or location, it ravages and destroys as it wills.

The risks associated with breast cancer are ample and worse still, many don’t even know they have it until it has gotten to advanced stages. This is why it is recommended that all women above the age of 50 go for periodic medical check-ups as early detection appears to be the only way to beat this culprit.

Read more at BuzzAss http://buzzass.com/2016/10/13/national-nobraday-for-the-hate-of-breast-cancer/

In honor of breast cancer awareness month, we are providing free SMS reminders for women to check their breasts. Please encourage the women in your life to sign up.

https://www.wellahealth.com/savethebreasts.aspx

Today left me wit a lot of mix feelings, but mainly disappointment. people fail to realise d .importance of this bra day. the perverts here were on rampage drooling over breasts some even went as far as begging for unclad.Some stupid girls kuku sexualized everything with silly tAlks. Una no una self. The main reason which is breast cancer was barely talked about. as we all know cancer is a killer, a lump which grows at a fast rate. It is usually fatal, but EARLY DETECTION is key. some of d ladies are sexually active but fail to do common self examination.Early detection increases survival chances. the following should be duly observed.

1. daily self examinations for lumps and hardness or growths.

2.swelling of the breasts.

3. niipple discharge.
Once these are seen it is advisable to you your doctor immediately.

Try to go braless as often as you can.
Never wear a very tight bra.
Never sleep with a bra.
Always put on a clean bra.
Pit on black bra's less, and white bra's more.


A mastectomy can stop the growth of cancer temporarily.
I might have just saved a life by this information.

In honor of breast cancer awareness month, we are providing free SMS reminders for women to check their breasts. Please encourage the women in your life to sign up.

https://www.wellahealth.com/savethebreasts.aspx

israel2563:
Was browsing Facebook when i saw this......

In honor of breast cancer awareness month, we are providing free SMS reminders for women to check their breasts. Please encourage the women in your life to sign up.
https://www.wellahealth.com/savethebreasts.aspx

morganstones:

I woke up early this morning dreading to go on social media, obviously not because of Apollo nor boil. Rather my fear is being orchestrated by the likely visual assaults innocent hearted men like me will face from teeming Nigerian ladies who would ditch their bra's today. For those who might be wondering when and where did this business of Nigerian ladies throwing away their most treasure 'Cosset' every 14th Of October. Just like many who take delight in joining the bandwagon of wearing red on red every February 14th (with most teenage girls looking like poorly kitted masquerade) without understanding the origin of Valentine's day. Similarly, chunk load of people misunderstand the basic idea of 'Cancer Awareness Month'. Every October people world over try as much as possible to raise global concern regarding cancer diseases. Since breast cancer is one of the most commonest cancer disease afflicting women across the world, with surgically removing the affected part as a likely survival tactics. Hence, the start of NoBraDay to show solidarity for breast cancer survivals. At the very inception this was indeed a noble gestures, but over the years Nigerian ladies have began to misrepresent this gesture to mean an opportunity to display various shades,sizes and shapes of pneumatic mammalian gland on social media(To much grammar to describe 'Breast').
We must learn to recognise the fact that there is an apparent need to raise concern about this painful scourge through sensitization and self breast examination. So for the matured minds rather than pulling off your bra today you can do the following.
*Carry out a personal breast self examination
*Visit the hospital for HPV test
*Decide to begin to eat healthy meals garnished with enough fruits and vegetables
*Once you discover an usual lump don't panic kindly visit your doctor
*Ditch your can foods for natural ones
Although it is in our habit to join trending event around. Certainly our choice is understandable but sincerely we must be matured enough to clothes ourselves when dancing happily within the market square.

Written by : Awesu Jomo

In honor of breast cancer awareness month, we are providing free SMS reminders for women to check their breasts. Please encourage the women in your life to sign up.

https://www.wellahealth.com/savethebreasts.aspx

kingscheta:
I have about 6 questions I want us to discuss about breast and cancer.
Please answer bssed your own opinion. And ask your own question so we all discuss about it.
First help me and answer this questions.
What do you think causes breast cancer?
Almost everyday I see young girls boobs growing, what cause this enlargement? and why do boys love breast?
Does breast cancer have a cure?
Who can suffer this breast cancer?
How do we stop breast cancer?
Please answer me below so we shall get the discussion start. See more at http://www.tomedbike.com/2016/05/understanding-all-about-breast-cancer.html

In honor of breast cancer awareness month, we are providing free SMS reminders for women to check their breasts. Please encourage the women in your life to sign up.
https://www.wellahealth.com/savethebreasts.aspx

Breast cancer devastates families as it affects young women who still have young childred. It creates widowers and motherless kids.

In honor of breast cancer awareness month, we are providing free SMS reminders for women to check their breasts. Please signup and encourage the women in your life to sign up.

Visit: https://www.wellahealth.com/savethebreasts.aspx

http:///selfbreastcheck

The international pharmacy day is marked on the 25th of September every year. The theme this year is:

“Pharmacists: Caring for you”

Pharmacists want the general public to believe they care for their clients/ patients.

Is this really the case in Nigeria?

Many people who patronize pharmacies complain of not being treated nicely, being sold fake/ expired medicines or not getting the right advice.

Is this really the state of pharmacy practice now, poor care with a focus first on profit or do pharmacists really care.

What are your thoughts on the matter as either a pharmacist or someone who has been to a pharmacy.

Long drug names, too many instructions.

Ask your pharmacist to get the wella health app to record your contact info, drug details and deliver instructions directly to your phone automatically.

see www.wellahealth.com

Dotun1993:
I'm a medical student and also an artist, I've been drawing for as long as i can remember. I dropped it for a while and just picked it up again.
So I decided to show u guys some of my recent artworks.
Admin pls, help me show this to the world.

These two careers are not mutually exclusive. You can become a medical illustrator among other career options.

http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2002/05/i-am-medical-illustrator

Wella Health is seeking pharmacists to be ambassadors and help us spread the word about our novel patient engagement solution for community pharmacists. It's a good opportunity for young/ student pharmacists to make extra income while improving pharmaceutical care and practice.

Learn more and sign up via our webpage below:

http://www.wellahealth.com/amb/default.aspx