Health

NLNG, a big energy company in Nigeria, is improving healthcare at teaching hospitals. They opened a new twin theatre suite at the University of Jos Teaching Hospital. The Plateau State Governor and other important people attended. This suite is part of NLNG's plan to boost healthcare at 12 teaching hospitals across Nigeria. NLNG has already finished similar projects in other places like Abuja, Benin, Lagos, and Yenagoa. The one in Jos is part of the second phase of their plan, which started in 2023. At the opening ceremony in Jos, NLNG's boss talked about the urgent need for better medical facilities and to stop skilled doctors from leaving Nigeria. NLNG wants to help fix this by improving healthcare. The Plateau State Governor said the new suite will make surgeries quicker and sa...

Written by Ali Elias “We come, we go…” That’s the nature of life. Death or translation, just as birth, is as sure as the sunset or sunrise, for as long as the earth endures. But what really is death all about? In my younger days, growing up in the village, death was rare, not so often– but when it occurs, it brings out a grotesque picture of life. The mourning is usually heavy, the mood melancholic and scary. Scary, not of death or dying itself, since it’s always the elderly that dies, but scary because of the perceived thought that the ghost of the departed will be hovering around the village. The fear was always so strong that I could hardly sit at the end of the long bench which served as our chair in the village. I had to sandwich myself in between others. Of course, you dare ...

Source: Reproductive Health Supplies Published 9/1/2023 A cross section of women in Abuja on Sunday expressed diverse views on the use of contraceptives. Some of the women told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in separate interviews that family planning was a necessity, yet a hectic, journey. Some said they found pregnancy prevention methods safe, while others said they steer clear because of the side effects. Mrs Benita Sampson, a civil servant, said that her family planning method had been helpful because she does not have the fear of unplanned pregnancy. “I use Nexplanon which is the arm birth control implant. I replace the implant every three years which is convenient for me. ”I sometimes forget I’m wearing it; it has been good because, unlike some other women, I ...

By Els William, 8/7/2023  Igo Weli, SPDC director and country business relations director, notes: “Revamping the hospital is not enough but ensuring that the managers sustain a maintenance culture that keeps the hospital in good service shape at all times,” noted Igo Weli, SPDC’s Director and Country Head, Corporate Relations, in his goodwill message at the reopening ceremonies of Edagberi Cottage Hospital, Ahoada West Local Government area of Rivers State. He further emphasized the need for collaboration between the community and hospital management to ensure availability and continued community service.  The 20-bed hospital that was devastated by floods in 2012 has been in ruins ever since. A breath of fresh air for the multi-million naira facility, and the community, cam...

By Els William, 12/2/2023 Shell Petroleum Development Company has taken it medical outreach, “Health-In-Motion to Elelenwo community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area (LGA) in River State, South South Nigeria. This was in continuation of the company’s social investment interventions within their Host communities. Declaring the three-Day free medical programme open, Igo Weli, Director and Head of the company’s Corporate Relations, stated that ‘Vision First Initiative’ is part of their ‘health-in-motion’ programme in Rumuolokwu communities in August 2023.  “This edition of the programme also incorporates Shell’s award-winning ‘Vision First Initiative’, to provide comprehensive eye care services to the people of Elelenwo community.“The vision first initiative is also a community...

Sam Althman Initially published 6/1/2023 The man at the forefront of artificial intelligence and Chief Executive Officer of ChatGPT, Sam Altman, and colleagues want to transform mental health care and addiction treatment with psychedelic drugs. He plans to do this through his start-up company, Journey Colab. Psychedelic drugs have shown some positive result in clinical trials; and this they hope to take advantage of, and to make them available to people who suffer from a variety of mental challenges and drug use-disorder. To Jeeshan Chowdhury, the Chief Executive Officer of Journey Colab, having such interventions are powerful tools, and likens them to performing complex surgeries.  . “Surgery is done in a safe environment in specialized facilities by highly experienced te...

By Ali Elias Let’s revisit the issue about abortion. This post would be focusing on the responses to our earlier post, “Don’t Die Under Guilt: What Everyone Should Know Or Consider About Abortion”. You have to read it to be fully involved in the on-going discussion. The first comment goes thus. “Where you missed the point is that the owner of the building, whether complete (as in already delivered or grown person), or uncompleted (as in foetus), is not the tenant or caretaker (mother) but the Landlord (the creator Himself)”. It went further, “we don’t go amending a property you do not own, talk less of demolishing it, just because the Landlord made you a caretaker” “Immediately after conception, life begins; whether in form of blood or foetus. No one has the right to murder (abort...

Written by Ali Elias For as long as there is life on earth, and for as long as the true nature of man continues to be under the clouds, our views on abortion would continue to be polarized. Daggers would continue to be drawn between those who are for, and against, abortion.  Nevertheless, there are a few things we ought to know. Or consider. Some people’s strong point in arguing against abortion is the fact that movement and pulse beat can be observed in a foetus. “What crime has your child committed to deserve to have its arms and its legs pulled off of its body and its head crushed in the womb?” Gabriel Olivier rhetorically questioned during a recent rally of opponents and supporters of abortion in Mississippi, USA. That’s highly emotive. However, emotion has nothing to do ...