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In order  to ensure healthcare delivery to Nigerians, the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole has said directed that all accident and emergency cases should be treated within 24 hours in Lagos University Teaching Hospital ( LUTH). (Second left) Prof. Innocent Ujah, the Director General of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Yaba, Lagos; Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Folorunso Adewole (Third left); Christopher Bode, Chief Medical Director (CMD), Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos State( Fourth left)  and others during a media briefing on Friday, at LUTH,  Idi-Araba, Lagos State Addressing journalists at LUTH, the minister said that "the hospital should operate a system that will evacuate patients within 24 hours. Once first aid treatments have being given to a patient, the patient should be moved to the ward. "If the emergency unit is congested, it will not be able to attend to emergency cases. The situation I saw this

Treat emergency cases within 24 hours, FG directs hospitals

Over one in eight adults are now obese - a ratio that has more than doubled since 1975 and will swell to one in five by 2025, a major survey reported Friday. Of about five billion adults alive in 2014, 641 million were obese, the data showed -  and projected the number will balloon past 1.1 billion in just nine years, an online report said. The research warned of a looming crisis of ‘severe obesity’ and disease brought on by high-fat, high-sugar diets causing blood pressure and cholesterol to rise. "There will be health consequences of magnitudes that we do not know,"  author Majid Ezzati of Imperial College London told AFP. The survey, published in The Lancet medical journal , claimed to be the most comprehensive of its kind conducted to date. People are divided into healthy or unhealthy weight categories based on a universally-adopted measure dubbed Body Mass Index (BMI) - a ratio of weight-to-height squared. A healthy BMI ranges from 18.5 to 24.9. One is

Stakeholders in the health sector have urged Lagos state government to create policy direction for Amoxicillin Dispersible Tablet (Amoxicillin DT) and Zinc/ Low Osmolarity Oral Rehydration Salt (Zinc/LO-ORS) in order to address childhood Pneumonia and Diarrhea.  L- r: Dr. Mrs. Moyosore Adejumo FPSN, representing the Commissioner for Health, Lagos State, Dr. Jide Idris, making a remark;  Dr. Mrs. Monica Eimunjeze, Director Registration & Regulatory Affairs,  National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and   Pharm. (Mrs.) Sherifat Salami, Director,  Pharmaceutical Services,  Lagos State Health Service Commission during a one-day policy dialogue on the use of Amoxicillin dispersible tablet and Zinc/low osmolarity oral rehydration salt in the management of childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea held recently, which was in conjunction with the World Water Day at Dover Hotel Ikeja, Lagos State. Declaring open, the one day policy dialogue, the Lagos State Com

Karakas explained: “We currently offer the largest number of O&D pairs in Africa – a total of 11,472 origin-to-destination pairs on the African continent. “Within Africa, we do 2,448 O&Ds; Africa to Europe 5,184; Africa to the Middle East 1,632; Africa to the Far East 1,632; and Africa to America 576, which bring our total to 11,472 O&D’s. No other airline in the world covers Africa like we do nor are they as well-priced as we are.” Talking about the expansion of routes Turkish Airlines wants specifically in Nigeria, Karakas explained that they currently fly from three locations in Nigeria, namely Lagos, Abuja and Kano, but would like to also fly from Port Harcourt and a few other locations. In addition to that, the airline also wants to double its daily flights in and out of the three current locations. These requests, Karakas said have since been tabled before the presidency as well as the aviation ministry.

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