Health

The Nigerian Police and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have vowed to partner with health practitioners to arrest cases of female genital mutilations especially in Oyo, Osun and Ekiti states. The Commandant of NSCDC, Oyo state Command, John Adewole, his Osun state counterpart, Akinwande Aboluwoye and the Assistant Commissioner of Police in Charge of Criminal Investigation, Ekiti State jointly stated this on Wednesday in Oshogbo, the Osun state capital.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says over 10 percent of drugs sold in developing countries are fake or substandard, leading to tens of thousands of deaths, many of whom are African children given ineffective treatments for pneumonia and malaria.

The Senate is set to implement the 2014 National Health Act, which was signed into law by former President Goodluck Jonathan, especially the one per cent consolidated fund to enhance funding of Nigeria’s health system in 2018.

A report released Wednesday in Geneva says Nigeria, Rwanda, and Democratic Republic of Congo DRC have seen the largest increase in malaria cases, jeopardizing the gains recorded since 2000.

Research has revealed that angry people aged between 20 and 40 were one-and-a-half times more likely to be dead 35 years later than those who were happier.

Researchers from Iowa State University, United States (U.S.)believe this is as a result of a number of factors relating stress to physiological damage. The frequent release of adrenaline during periods of distress causes damage to the Deoxy ribo-Nucleic Acid (DNA)/genetic material, which could lead to life-threatening illnesses such as multiple sclerosis.

The most comprehensive report to date on the health effects of environmental pollution shows that filthy air, contaminated water and other polluted parts of our environment kill more people worldwide each year than almost everything else combined – smoking, hunger, natural disasters, war, murder, AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.