Chioma Umeha

Chioma Umeha For God Is Great, a 16-year-old boy, the success of his surgery from subdural empyema is a clear manifestation of the divine fulfilment of his name. Subdural empyema is an intracranial focal collection of purulent material located between the dura mater and the arachnoid mater. God Is Great was diagnosed with subdural empyema early this year. The CT scan showed a hypodense collection in the frontal region of the subdural space – space between the skull bone and brain – with a collection of gas above it. Based on clinical features and radiological findings, the diagnosis was a bi-frontal (involvement of both side of the anterior aspect of the subdural space) subdural empyema. It all began with a simple complaint of a headache and fever but was treated for typhoid. After being placed on admission and discharged from a hospital in Badagry, he still complained of the headaches and fever. He went back to the hospital and was asked to do an x-ray. Go

Chioma Umeha L-R: Astymin School Program Coordinator, Mrs Yetunde Adesola; Mr Olalekan Hakeem of Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board; Representative of Lagos State Deputy Governor, Mrs Folashade Ladiju; Marketing Manager, Fidson Healthcare Plc, Mr. Friday Enaholu and Head, Business and Corporate Development, Mr Oshoke Ayebae, during the 2018 Astymin Brilliance Reward (ABR) presentation at the Ndubuisi Kanu Park, Alausa Ikeja, Lagos. Determined to improve on its annual reward for academic excellence, Fidson Healthcare Plc, under its Astymin Brilliance Reward (ABR) rewarded over 230 public and private schools pupils across the country and awarded scholarship to the three best students in the 2017 West African Examination Council (WAEC). The event, which held at Ndubuisi Kanu Park, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, the company’s Marketing Manager, Mr. Friday Enaholo, said was aimed at celebrating and rewarding brilliant kids and ensuring their continuous academic de

Dr. Farouk Jega is Senior Country Director of Pathfinder in Nigeria, where he oversees technical and administrative aspects of a multi-million dollar portfolio of projects in maternal health, family planning, HIV and AIDS, and advocacy. In this interview with CHIOMA UMEHA , he speaks on family planning and sundry issues. Experts: Nigeria has one of the highest fertility rates in the world, 235 million in 2013, what is the significance of this prediction in the face of the contending family planning services issues in the country? The significance is in many different ways, but we need to make a clarification. First, the absolute population number is not a bad thing if it goes at pace with the level of development but unfortunately, Nigeria’s population growth has not really been in pace with our level of human development. So, we have this huge population and very bad infrastructure in terms of educational and healthcare facilities, even employment and that i

Chioma Umeha The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised the alarm that cases from the resurgent Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are expected to rise in the coming days. WHO’s Deputy Director General of Emergency Preparedness and Response, Dr Peter Salama, said in Geneva that there had been around 20 deaths as a result of the Ebola virus. Salama also said protecting vulnerable people in eastern DRC from the latest Ebola Virus outbreak was going to be “very, very complex”, given the huge logistical challenges and ongoing conflict there. The WHO emergency preparedness and response chief said: “We know for example that there have been around 20 deaths. We can’t at this stage confirm whether they are all confirmed or probable Ebola cases. “We expect however that the overall case count will rise in coming days to weeks, based on the trajectory of epidemics at this stage in their development.” Salama said that WHO was unaware of the

Madam Ike Theresa and another villager washing and drinking water supplied via the borehole provided through the intervention of European Union (EU) and United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Onanaku, a community in Ezinifitte Anambra State, recently. PHOTOS BY CHIOMA UMEHA Some pupils of Anuli Community School, Ezinifite, Aguata Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra State, washing hands via a tippy-tap water system provided through the intervention of European Union (EU) and United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF), recently. •50-Year-Old Childless Widow, Others Rejoice Chioma Umeha For almost five decades, Ike Theresa, 50, native of Onanaku, unmarried and childless, used to trek several kilometres in search of portable water for drinking and other domestic purposes. No doubt, many years of carrying the heavy load of water regularly while trekking could have contributed to her spine being bent backwards, causing her to develop hunched back. Accord

•Writes President Buhari, Says Recommendations Full Of Bias The Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Association (AHPA) in a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari urged the Federal Government to withdraw the Report of the 2014 Presidential Committee of Exper ts on Inter-Professional Relationships In the Public Health Sector, saying that it was not in tune with national development and public interest, CHIOMA UMEHA writes. The Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Association (AHPA), a body that constitutes about 95 percent of the workforce in the health sector, has rejected the report of the Yayale Ahmed Presidential Committee of Experts on Professional Relationships in the Public Health Sector submitted to former President Goodluck Jonathan in December 2014. JOHESU and AHPA in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari said it was rejecting the report because the Nigerian Medic

Chioma Umeha Trying to conceive is one big waiting game – you never know if this will be month that pregnancy test turns positive. But thankfully there are a few ways to help boost your odds of getting pregnant. Sure, you can track your cycle and follow all the baby-making tricks in the book, but sometimes what you don’t do is just as important as what you do. Here, we break down foods, activities and habits to avoid when trying to conceive. Smoking You are probably already planning on quitting smoking once you get pregnant (and you definitely should), but avoiding cigarettes now will be a huge benefit too. According to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, it takes longer for smokers to conceive, and smoking makes a woman’s eggs more prone to genetic abnormalities. Smoking increases the risk of   miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy. In fact, the habit wreaks so much havoc on fertility that female smokers who have in vitro fertilization (IVF) have