This little critter is called an ASP. Believe it's a caterpillar. Kill if you come across one. These are painful when you are stung by one, will send you to hospital, causing nerve pain/damage and are possibly poisonous. These are becoming more n more seen. So watch your little ones surroundings!!! Just thought i'd share. Make sure you do the same.
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The federal government's as well as those of Lagos and Rivers States' response to the Ebola disease has shown that with determination and good efforts, Nigeria can surmount its social, political and economic problems.
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Has it ever occurred to you that how you dress, or the clothes you pick out should be determined by what your body type is? Read on for tips to flatter your body type by Gloria Haguma.
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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has described the outbreak of the infectious Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) as a security threat to the West African sub-region.
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Luck ran out on five medical doctors this week, as the Medical and Dental Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal suspended them for various periods ranging from three to six months, individually making it one of its most stringent judgments in recent times.
The doctors are Temitope Gabriel Onile, Nzurumike Charles Nnanna, Danmusa Ademu Ochala and Omotayo Oluwadamilola Akinro who all work at the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja were arraigned on the charges of negligence to duty between 7th and 8th, 2012.
"For failure to see a patient as often as his/her medical condition wants, you doctors Onile is hereby suspended for three months, Nnanna six months, Ochala six months, and Akinro six months,’ the Tribunal chairman, Jonathan Azubuike ruled.
According to the charges, the doctors were on call but failed to attend promptly in the management of one Mrs Eleojo Justina Collins who was admitted under their care and required urgent surgical intervention until the patient died.
Specifically, Dr Akinro was charged for "suspending the passage of Foley’s Catheter and proceeded to administer Misoprostol (used to induce pregnancy) without prior consultation with the Consultant and senior medical officer on duty."
Also, in another development, the tribunal held Dr Udezue Obumneme culpable and suspended him for three months based on the charges brought against him of negligence and misconduct in the operation he carried out on one Mr Steven Kwaso who later died.
After the deliberations, the tribunal maintained that the diseased patient was actually admitted at Bayero Dikko Specialist Hospital, Kano where Dr Udezue met him. It also held that the doctor was actually a grade two consultant on temporary employment at the hospital, but temporary staffs is recognised as a full time staff was expected to work during normal working hours, and the case of medical doctors, during call duty hours.
Udezue, who has 49 year experience as a medical doctor, performed a colostomy which he was accused of performing alone. The tribunal further held that an anaesthetist, a doctor and two auxiliary nurses who assisted him.
The cause of death was attributed to haemorrhage from the operation site, but death certificate ascribed the cause of death to respiratory arrest. Tribunal is convinced that a post mortem which was not carried out could have helped in unravelling the cause of death.
Based on the tribunal’s observations, "you Dr Udezue Nnaemeka Obumneme are found guilty of conducting yourself infamously in a professional respect contrary to the provisions of Rule 49 (1b,d) of the code of medical ethics in Nigeria, 2008. You are hereby suspended from practice for a period of three months". Responding, counsel to Udezie said "we will appeal the judgment if we consider it necessary to do so,’ while commending the tribunal for its speedy judgment delivery."
Another Dr Amos Essien of Shell Petroleum Hospital in Port Harcourt has been arraigned before the Nigerian Medical and Dental Practitioner Disciplinary Tribunal on charges of negligence in the management of one Mr Obhuo Eto Sonam.
‘You caused to be prescribed and administered, several doses of sedatives and anaesthetic drugs to the said patient without monitoring adequately and the sad fact you have conducted yourself infamously in a professional respect,’ the charge read. After several heated cross examination by the respondent and prosecution counsels, the tribunal chairman, Dr Azubuike adjourned further hearing on the matter till the next session of the panel which comes up in October.
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I’ve spent many pages laying out how the medical cartel plays semantic games, in order to “prove” vaccines don’t cause “autism.”
There’s a simpler conclusion.
The mothers know.
They know what happened to their children. They don’t need sophisticated analyses. They don’t need disease or disorder labels. They don’t need the very doctors who administered the vaccines turning around and lying to them.
And the lying is vicious. It’s coming out of the mouths of physicians who are indifferent to human life.
Doctors, underneath their layers and layers of hostile fakery, know the truth, too.
So does the CDC. That agency spends billions defending the indefensible.
William Thompson, the CDC whistleblower who recently admitted to gross fraud and lying, in order to exonerate the toxic MMR vaccine…he knows, too.
He knows the fraud is rampant inside the CDC. He knows it isn’t just a matter of one subset of data that was omitted in one study.
The vaccine manufacturers know, too. Long ago, they consummated a deal with the US government to forbid citizens from filing lawsuits as a result of vaccine damage. That was the whole point: vaccines inflict damage; let the federal government and the taxpayer carry the burden of financial compensation.
And the labyrinthine system through which a parent must pass, when filing a petition for compensation, is an affront to human dignity.
In that “court,” the full semantic shell game is on view.
“You say your child was severely damaged by a vaccine? First, you must prove the child developed a recognized and labeled neurological disorder. Then you must prove that a vaccine can and did cause that specific disorder. We have erected all sorts of roadblocks to keep you stymied…”
This is a grotesquery. The people who run this system should be in prison for the rest of their lives.
But regardless, the mothers know. They know when and how and why their child withdrew from the world, and was, afterward, never the same.
It was a vaccine.
An empire can be built, and has been built, to avoid that stark truth.
The CDC is the Orwellian Ministry of Truth of the empire. It lies about case numbers of diseases—inflating them—in order to sell vaccines.
It holds meetings to discuss how to frighten the public into getting vaccines.
It beats the drum every hour of every day to assure us that vaccines are the wonder of modern science. Safe and effective. Safe and effective.
The CDC’s propaganda allies and their chosen experts attack the “anti-vaccine people” as close cousins to terrorists.
At the center of this storm stand the mothers.
They know.
They live with their knowledge. They care for their children, who have been driven out of the futures they would have had by poison.
Nothing can shake the mothers’ knowledge.
Not the doctors, not the fake experts, not the government-compensation overseers, not the CDC, not smooth-talking television anchors, not teachers, not school counselors, not school administrators, not city “officials”, not neighbors, not friends, not family.
The mothers know.
And if by some great effort, against odds, as they continue to care for their vaccine-damaged children, they organize and rise up, you who are lying to them and passing them off as inconsequential will know they are coming.
You’ll feel the nightmare you’re perpetuating turn around and engulf you.
And somewhere inside you, you’ll recognize this is what justice is.
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The Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has announced that the resumption date for public and private primary and secondary schools in Nigeria has been reviewed for the second time from October 13 to the middle of September.
Owing to the Ebola outbreak, the federal government had extended the summer holiday for schools nationwide from September to October 13.
However, Chukwu, while briefing journalists yesterday in Abuja after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, said the Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, had been directed by council to convene an emergency meeting with all states Commissioners for Education with a view to agreeing on a new resumption date nationwide.
Also giving an update of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country, Chukwu revealed that one more patient had been discharged in Lagos, bringing to eight the number of persons who had been given the all clear after contracting the disease.
He said the status since the outbreak of the disease in the country, shows that a total of 18 persons (including the index case) had been infected, out of which 14 are in Lagos and four in Port Harcourt.
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As the nation battles with the containment of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), veterinary doctors have been challenged to find a way to permanently keep the virus out of man and even render it impotent in animals.
The challenge was thrown yesterday at the first oath taking ceremony of veterinary graduates of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, Umuiahia in Abia State.
Speakers noted that since animals are the primary host of the Ebola virus, the professionals who treat animal diseases have a special role to play in containing it.
In urging the veterinarians to launch full scale war on Ebola virus, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Hilary Edeoga, said the animal doctors have the requisite skills and scientific knowledge to help the nation overcome the EVD.
“The principles of the veterinary ethics contained in your oath require you to use your scientific knowledge and skills for the benefit of society, prevent animal diseases, relieve animal suffering, improve animal production,” he said.
Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, who was represented by the Secretary to Abia State Government (SSG), Professor Mkpa A. Mkpa, also threw the same challenge saying that the veterinary doctors must rise up to the challenge of routing EVD.
Interestingly, the President, Veterinary Council of Nigeria (VCN), Prof Garba Sharubutu said that the animal doctors had already taken up the task of taking the war to the very source of Ebola virus, noting that with the relationship between animals and vet doctors it was easy to transmit the disease if adequate caution was not taken.
He told journalists after the ceremony that the council had already come up with a strategy to find a lasting solution to the Ebola menace, adding that the position paper had been transmitted to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, for action.
Sharubutu further disclosed that a research team has been raised at the National Veterinary Research Institute Vom with a specific mandate to tackle the virus and possibly break its transmission fro m animal to man.
He said that the research team would conduct their studies on the animals that host the Ebola virus, including bats and monkeys with a view to checkmating the virus at its natural abode.
The VCN president further said that the Council was determined to ensure that veterinary doctors adhere strictly to their professional ethics because “if you’re not practicing ethically you’re likely to transmit the disease to others.”
To this end, he said veterinarians were required to report on weekly basis all cases they handle, including animal diseases treated and type of animal.
“We have the capacity to discipline any veterinary doctor (who failed foul of the ethical guidelines,” he said.
Earlier in his address, the Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine, MOUAU, Prof A.U Kalu, reminded the newly-inducted vet doctors that they have found themselves in a noble profession as animal doctors are “the best doctors in the world” because of the peculiar nature of their patients.
He said in view of the livestock population in Nigeria and the number of registered veterinarians, put at about 10,000 the new veterinarians would have a busy but fulfilling lives ahead of them.
“There is glory enough to share in the Nigerian field provided you work hard and in line with the professional raining and ethics you have been taught,” he said.
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FAKE RAINBOW LOOM PRODUCTS HAVE BEEN PULLED FROM THE MARKET BECAUSE THEY ARE CARCINOGENIC
Loom band charms taken off toy store shelves over cancer fears. Wondering if this is Fact or Fiction, it was posted on Facebook?? Please help, my daughter has one. Should i throw it out?
Origins: In late August 2014, emails began to circulate regarding the popular fad known as “loom bands” in the UK, or “rainbow looms” in the US. The arts and crafts toy was hugely popular earlier in 2014; and although the initial frenzy has subsided, rainbow loom bands are still widely used by tweens.
Given the serious nature of the claim circulating, many parents have sought clarification about the rainbow loom bands cancer scare.
Fake loom band charms taken off toy store shelves over cancer fears
As is often the case when a warning such as the rainbow loom bands one surfaces, the actual details quickly became lost in the cacophony of rising concern. Parents scrambled to find out whether their children’s loom band kits indeed contained potential carcinogens and, if so, how grave a danger was presented by the toys.
Currently, British retailer The Entertainer has pulled loom band charms from its shelves pending further testing. It was revealed that rainbow loom charms made by companies other than Rainbow Loom brand contained as much as 40 percent by weight levels of phthalates, far higher than the 0.1 percent allowable by law in both the UK and the US.
On 29 August 2014, The Entertainer released a statement confirming that rainbow loom band charms had been pulled from stores. Testing is currently underway on rainbow loom accessories to determine whether they contain levels of phthalates reported in the initial tests:
It was brought to our attention that loom charms purchased from one of our stores may contain phthalates.
At The Entertainer, children’s safety is our number one priority so as a precautionary measure we have removed all loom charms from sale with immediate effect whilst we conduct a full investigation.
Any concerned customers will be offered a full refund or exchange in any of our stores.
Manufacturers of fake products are blatantly violating patent and trademark laws and deliberately smuggling fake products into various countries; they are unlikely to have any concern about the safety of our children, therefore, will use the cheapest industrial by-products that do not meet toys safety standards, as demonstrated in the reports by UK investigators. Choon’s Design LLC, the maker of the original Rainbow Loom®, has stated that all authentic Rainbow Loom® products have been tested to meet international toy safety standards and do not contain harmful phthalates and other potentially harmful substances. The safest way to avoid buying a counterfeit is to order the original from their online store http://www.rainbowloom.com/products or an authorized retailer.
It should be noted that phthalates were found in off-brand rainbow loom band charms, and that the Rainbow Loom branded items appear to be safe.
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The US government has commended the Nigerian government and its health authorities for their handling of the Ebola virus since it broke in Lagos last month.
The US’ commendation came on the back of more good news yesterday that four more patients who had contracted the disease had been discharged and declared free of the infectious disease.
With their discharge, this brings the total number of people who have been given the all clear to five. A total of 12 people were struck with the virus in Nigeria, including the index case Patrick Sawyer, of which four have died, five have been discharged while three remain in the isolation ward at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, Lagos.
However, all hopes that the US would send the ZMapp experimental drug to Nigeria were dimmed yesterday when the US government ruled out the possibility, saying there were insufficient quantities of the drug available. Making this known when he visited the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, in Abuja, the US Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, informed reporters that what was needed was to focus primarily on isolation and the screening of patients or those suspected to have contracted the virus.
According to Entwistle: “We’ll see down the road what is possible. But there are no huge quantities now. And we think the focus now needs to be on exactly what you are doing: the isolation wards, screening, and especially important that now your government is doing a very good job on this, that is contact tracing.” The envoy said he just came back from the US late last week, adding, “I was in Washington, of course, for the US-African Leaders Summit and I came over to see the minister right away as soon as I got back into town to discuss our anti-Ebola cooperation.
“I was in the room in Washington when Vice President (Joe) Biden and President (Goodluck) Jonathan talked about the Ebola crisis, talked about our partnership, and pledged the total cooperation between your government and my government on this issue.
“So I just came over to see the minister this morning to talk to him about that and you’ve all seen the headlines over the weekend. This is an issue where we have to keep working hard. It may last for a while but there are some encouraging signs.
“The Emergency Operation Centre (EOC), I understand, is working well. The isolation ward, I understand, is working well. So this is an example we have, as part of the broad partnership between our two countries, just keep collaborating and cooperating and keep working hard.”
While commending Nigeria for effectively curtailing the spread of the Ebola virus, Entwistle stated: “I noticed that when I flew back on Thursday night into this country, before I left the plane, I filled out a questionnaire. “I was very impressed because I even had to put my seat number which is a very good idea. So if you ever have to trace the guy sitting next to me you know where I am. So I have been impressed by these things and I encourage the government of Nigeria to keep at it as I know they will.
“I always say we have a broad partnership between our two countries which means we do things together as equals to make the world a better place. I can’t think of a more important example today than our Ebola cooperation.”
Chukwu, on his part, said the visit came at the right time considering the need for collaboration between the two countries, specifically on the Ebola virus. Chukwu said as the representative of the US government, the envoy will assist in various ways in the prevention of the virus from spreading further.
The minister referred to the US ambassador as the spokesperson for the US government in Nigeria, adding, “So he came to me as the chief public health officer of the country, because that is what the Minister of Health is, to exchange views with me on the collaboration with America.
Four Patients Discharged
The minister also disclosed that four additional patients were yesterday discharged and declared free of the infectious disease. In a statement in Abuja, Chukwu said the development was a good omen for Nigeria, taking into cognisance the devastation the virus had caused in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
The statement signed by his Special Assistant, Media and Communication, Dan Nwomeh, stated that the “Minister of Health has announced that four additional confirmed cases of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), which have been managed successfully, and are now disease-free and have been discharged to go home today (yesterday)”.
It added that the discharged patients included two male medical doctors and one female nurse. “The three participated in the treatment of the index case while the fourth person was a female patient at the time the index case was on admission. “This brings to five the total number of patients diagnosed with the Ebola Virus Disease who have now been discharged from hospital,” it explained.
Three under Surveillance
Also, giving an update, the Lagos State Government yesterday confirmed the discharge of the four patients, but revealed that three more persons had been placed under surveillance to ascertain whether they would show symptoms of the disease. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, made the disclosure last night at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba, stating: “We have four more patients that are ready to be discharged today (yesterday).
“They have gone through the same protocol. The protocol is that before we release anyone or certify him or her negative, he or she has to be symptom-free for a period of over three weeks.
“We also had to test their blood samples and the result was negative. They will be released today after they have completed their counseling being conducted by our psychosocial team. But they will come periodically for check-ups, though they are okay. “The other three patients are still being monitored at the isolation centre. Once they get better, they will be released. The lady who ran to Enugu is still under isolation and she has tested positive to the virus.” On those under surveillance, Idris said the new cases had been discovered. “One of them is a blood sample from Kaduna while two others are from Lagos. They are primary contacts. On the Kaduna case, the reason for this is that they do not have the laboratory to test for the virus. “Four persons have died already, including the index case, Mr. Patrick Sawyer. We had eight in the isolation ward before Saturday when we released the doctor. This doctor was released after testing negative and going through the WHO and CDC procedures for discharge.” Idris maintained that there have been 12 confirmed cases, which he said included the index case, noting that all the cases that had been confirmed positive and those who had died were linked to the index case. He also disclosed that more medical personnel had shown interest “to care for the patients. We have eight doctors and nine nurses and some health workers who have gone through training.
“We have also been joined by infectious disease experts from the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH). All these people have gone through training. Though the number is not enough as we need more”.
NLC Opposes Doctors’ Dismissal
But as Nigeria made inroads in its fight against the virus, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) criticised the federal government’s dismissal of resident doctors in federal hospitals.
NLC, in a statement yesterday by its president, Abdulwaheed Omar, said it was ill-advised and urged government to reconsider its stand in view of the prevailing health challenges in the coutry. The union pointed out that no country could afford to neglect its health sector, including the personnel that work there during trying times.
It emphasised that what the country needed urgently was the recruitment of more health professionals, well equipped public hospitals, and a well organised health system capable of responding to the health concerns of Nigeria’s growing population.
“We believe the federal government was misadvised and also misled by this action. It is clearly unwarranted to sack doctors just as we are collectively faced with the challenge of the Ebola virus. It is even more dangerous to sack medical personnel in a country of over 170 million people with a ratio of one doctor to over five thousand patients.
“What the country needs urgently is recruitment of more health professionals, well equipped public hospitals, and a well organised health system, and not sacking of any category of health personnel,” the NLC said.
It urged the federal government to carry out an urgent audit of the public health sector to determine the state of the sector in terms of equipment, personnel and funding.
“While workers and indeed all Nigerians are at great risk and require adequate protection, those in the medical sector should particularly be sufficiently equipped and given incentives to guarantee their safety and boost morale. “No country can afford, especially in these trying times, to neglect its health sector, including the personnel that work there,” the statement added.
Doctors Protest
The NLC’s position was given fillip by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Lagos and Ondo States whose members embarked on peaceful protests against the government’s sack of the resident doctors. Lagos State NMA chairman, Dr. Tope Ojo, who led his colleagues on the protest at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), said a reversal of the mass sacking was the only thing that could make discussions with government continue on the strike.
He said this was an important step for NMA to continue to dialogue with the government, adding that doctors should not feel threatened by the sack.
Ojo said doctors were not asking for an increment in their salary but a better healthcare delivery system. “The country’s universal health coverage is inadequate as it only covers 30 per cent of the people. We want this for everybody, irrespective of age and class in the society,” he added.
The NMA chair also urged the government to lift the ban on residency training so that medical education can continue to grow like those of the United Kingdom and the US.
Also speaking, the Second Vice President, Lagos State branch of NMA, Dr. Olusegun Akinwotu, said resident doctors constituted about 60 per cent of the medical workforce, adding that sacking them would mean killing the patients who require their services.
“Also government’s handling of the issue is not encouraging as resident doctors join consultants during surgery. They also impart knowledge on to house officers,” he said. Speaking to the protesters, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of LUTH, Prof Akin Osibogun, represented by the hospital’s Chairman Medical Advisory Committee (CMAC), Prof Chris Bode, said they should go about their complaints peacefully.
He said the situation called for sober reflection and moderation. “We are doctors and it is expected of us to be of high moral conduct. We must not constitute a danger to the public,” Osibogun said.
NMA presented a letter stating their demands to the CMD for onward transmission to the health minister. Similarly, doctors in Ondo State under the auspices of NMA demanded the recall 16,000 resident doctors sacked by the federal government before they could return to the negotiating table with the government to end their strike. The chairman of the state chapter, Dr. Bamidele Betiku, said the decision of the federal government would make the country lack specialised doctors and make adequate healthcare delivery elusive to the masses.
The doctors, who marched from the NMA secretariat along Igbatoro Road to the governor's office in Alagbaka, Akure, sang solidarity songs while the protest lasted.
Also, the Cross River State chapter of NMA equated the sack of the resident doctors with the closure of all federal medical institutions in the country. NMA in the state said the sacking of the resident doctors, by implication, was the consequential sack of about 64,000 of its members.
Chairman of the NMA in the state, Dr. Calistus Enyuma, a consultant pediatrician, at a press briefing in Calabar, said: “As it stands, the federal government suspended the training of resident doctors; that means the government has closed down teaching hospitals, closed down medical schools, and the implication is that you have sacked over 64,000 doctors throughout Nigeria.
“It happened during the (Muhammadu) Burari regime in 1984 and we had the brain drain and you can guess what will happen in the next few months.” On the current strike embarked on by the NMA, he said: “Our appeal to the federal government is to negotiate with the NMA to bring sanity to the health sector.”
EU Border Agency Suspends Migrant Flights
In a related incident, the European Union (EU) border agency, Frontex, said yesterday it had suspended flights taking migrants back to Nigeria. “We have decided to indefinitely suspend those flights that we coordinate and co-finance to Nigeria,” Frontex spokeswoman, Ewa Moncure told AFP.
The Warsaw-based agency only handles around two per cent of all flights carrying migrants who have crossed into the EU back home. The EU countries in question handle the rest. Last year, 160,000 such migrants were sent back to their home countries, mainly to Albania, India, Pakistan and Russia.
“Certain countries, notably Austria, have taken a similar decision” to suspend flights to countries affected by the deadly Ebola virus, Moncure said. The current Ebola outbreak, the worst since the virus first appeared in 1976, has claimed 1,145 lives including four in Nigeria.
WHO: All Outbound Travellers Must be Screened
Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has advised authorities in countries struck with Ebola to screen all travellers departing at international airports, seaports and major border crossings. A statement issued by the UN health agency recommended that people with any sign of the virus should be stopped from travelling.
The agency reiterated that the risk of getting infected with Ebola on an aircraft was small and said there was no need for wider travel or trade restrictions, reported the Reuters news agency.
“Affected countries are requested to conduct exit screening of all persons at international airports, seaports and major land crossings, for unexplained febrile illness consistent with potential Ebola infection. “Any person with an illness consistent with EVD should not be allowed to travel unless the travel is part of an appropriate medical evacuation,” the statement said.
Nigeria’s health minister had on August 7 announced that all outbound passengers from the country would be screened. The precautionary measure was taken after the disease was imported into Nigeria from Liberia on July 20.
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