WRONG MEDICATION KILLS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ANUALLY - WHO

Medication errors kill and injure millions of people while an estimated 42 billion dollars is lost annually, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said, on Wednesday.
Director-General of  WHO, Margaret Chan,  at a  new campaign, “ Global Patient Safety Challenge on Medication Safety,’’  said  that  medicines should fulfil their real purpose to help people and  not harm them.
Chan said the  campaign was seeking  to reduce severe and  avoidable medication-associated damage across the globe by half over the next five years.

“According to estimates, the global cost associated with medication errors has been estimated at 42 billion dollars annually or almost one per cent of total global health expenditure.
“In terms of impact on the health of people, for instance in the United States, medication errors cause at least one death every day and injure approximately 1.3 million people annually,” she said.
The WHO chief added: “We all expect to be helped, not harmed, when we take medication.

HEALTH ALERT: SICKLE CELL ANEMIA A SILENT KILLER

Raipur, Chhattisgarh - Thirty-three-year-old Ramnath Sahu looks visibly distressed. The day before, his four-year-old son, Kuldeep, was diagnosed with sickle cell - a hereditary disease affecting the red blood cells.
"Don't worry my child, nothing will happen to you," says Kuldeep's 54-year-old grandmother, Ramvati Bai, as she caresses the boy in front of their home in the village of Akola, in Bemetara district.
Kuldeep's seven-year-old brother, Harsh, was diagnosed with the disease last year.

According to a 2013 report by the Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Medical College in the state's capital, Raipur, 10 percent of Chhattisgarh's population is affected by the disease, with the state's indigenous tribal population disproportionately affected.

21 DIES OF MENINGITIIS IN SOKOTO

The death toll as a result of the meningitis epidemic in Sokoto State has now risen to 21.
The State Health Commissioner, Balarabe Kakale, confirmed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Sokoto on Sunday.
Mr. Kakale also provided an update on the state of high alert declared by the ministry since March 20.
The deaths were recorded in the seven local governments of Kebbe, Bodinga, Rabah, Wamakko, Gada, Dange/Shuni and Tureta, which are mostly affected by the meningitis outbreak.
“The state government had since Monday deployed no fewer than fifteen medical teams, comprising of over one hundred and fifty medical personnel,” the commissioner said.
“They were deployed across the 23 local governments of the state, fully equipped with ambulances and provided with free drugs, as well as medicament.
“The emergency response teams were conducting house to house search, definition and management, both at home and the hospitals.
“They had so far treated no fewer than 330 mixed cases of severe malaria and meningitis across the seven top-hit local governments.

IMPORTANT: MOTHERS WITH FEMALE CHILDREN

Mothers have been urged not to ignore the complaints of pains by their daughters, especially during their monthly menstrual period as they could be the sign of endometriosis.
Nordica Fertility Centre Medical Director Dr Abayomi Ajayi gave the advice at this year’s Endometriosis Day, which had as theme: Endometriosis in adolescent.

WORLD WATER DAY!!!

An international charity organization, Water Aid, said 663 million people globally do not have access to clean water.

This is contained in a report released on Wednesday to mark World Water Day.

Water Aid also said that of 522 million live in rural areas.

It added that Papua New Guinea, Mozambique and Madagascar were among the countries worst off and are also among the 20 per cent of nations worldwide that are most vulnerable to climate change and least ready to adapt.

CANCER KILLS FASTER THAN MALARIA & HIV AIDS

Cancer kills more people globally than malaria, HIV and Tuberculosis (TB) combined, and impacts on low to middle- income countries like Nigeria.

Accordingly, the 2012 data of the International

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control continues to work to rid the nation of drug counterfeiters, but the problem seems enormous, writes Martins Ifijeh

Whenever the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) makes the news, it is almost certainly predictable what the content would be.

ERA/FOEN Rally against Water Privatisation in Lagos

  A rights advocacy group, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth (ERA/FOEN) took to the streets of Lagos on Tuesday to condemn plans by the Lagos State Government and the World Bank to privatise water resources in the state.

In a demonstration that lasted for over four hours, advocates who trekked through Obafemi Awolowo Way in Ikeja to the Governor’s office in Alausa

THE PROBLEM MOST MEN IGNORE

Abuja – If you’ve ever had a penis you’ll know that the biggest problem you can have with him is if he’s too lazy and depressed to get up in the morning.
Well it seems most guys who have a hard time with their slouching members don’t really do anything about it, Men’s Health reports.
According to a study by the Southern Illinois University, only about 25% of men who are diagnosed with erectile dysfunction actually seek out treatment.
But it might not be their lack of love for their little brothers, study authors said.
According to them, it might be the high cost of ED drugs that might be putting suffers off .
Read more at Men’s Health.