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AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine

• Zimbabwe:TB - Nation Can't Afford a Lapse
  [The Herald] Miss South Africa 2018, Tamaryn Green fought tuberculosis against all odds. Despite being a medical student, she was not immune to the ailment.
• South Africa:Did Big Tobacco Buy Twitter?
  [Bhekisisa] There's more to the data -- and social media -- backing the latest tobacco-funded ad campaign.
• Zimbabwe:More Cholera Spread Fears As Victims' Dead Bodies Taken to Rural Areas
  [New Zimbabwe] HARAARE city medical staff has admitted being overwhelmed by the current cholera outbreak amid fears the scourge could spread to other parts of the country after bodies of some of the victims were transported for burial in rural areas.
• Tanzania:Jubilee, Aga Khan Launch Joint Healthcare Insurance Product
  [Citizen] Dar es Salaam -Jubilee Insurance Company of Tanzania and the Aga Khan Health Services, Tanzania have jointly successfully launched an insurance product 'JilindeAfya',a scheme that aims at offering a comprehensive preventative and curative healthcare solution.
• Tanzania:Government Spent Over U.S.$39 Million or Construction of Health Care Centres
  [Citizen] Dodoma -The government has spent Sh93.5 billion for construction of 210 health centers during the 2017/18 financial year, the Parliament has been told.
• Namibia:Hospitals Without Food and Equipment
  [Namibian] FOOD supply to all Erongo region hospitals was cut off for four days this week while orthopaedic services at Windhoek's state hospitals are apparently in shambles, with the government being blamed for not paying service providers.
• Zimbabwe:Cholera Outbreak Claims Five
  [The Herald] FIVE people have died in Harare from a suspected cholera outbreak in Budiriro and Glen View high-density suburbs, while 35 patients with symptoms of the water-borne disease are admitted at the Beatrice Road Infectious Diseases Hospital.
• Africa:Nigerians Risk Cancer, Others As Counterfeit Phones Flood Market
  [Guardian] The use and sale of counterfeit and substandard mobile phones in the country telecommunications space have been increasing to the extent that it has become a menace.
• Nigeria:Bello University Teaching Hospital Prepares for First Open Heart Surgery
  [Premium Times] The Chief Medical Director Of Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Lawal Khalid, says the hospital will carry out its first open heart surgery by the end of September.
• Nigeria:How Poor Power Supply Cripples Abuja Primary Healthcare Centres
  [Premium Times] Abaji is a major satellite town of the Federal Capital Territory and the headquarters of a council by that name. The New Township Primary Healthcare Centre is located by the roadside in the heart of the town and is thus very accessible. But lack of steady power supply has affected services and discouraged attendance by patients.
• Africa:#freetobleed - 'A Pool of Blood Gushed Down My Thighs. My White Socks Were Red.'
  [Bhekisisa] Shame doesn't start when menstruation begins. It is built in slow steps.
• Kenya:Anne Waiguru Opens Eye Unit at Kerugoya Hospital
  [Nation] Eye patients from Kirinyaga County will no longer have to travel to Nairobi for services following the opening of an eye unit.
• Nigeria:Groups Warn Nigerians On Dangers of Smoking
  [Guardian] Benin City -Tobacco Free Nigeria in partnership with Health Promotion Education and Community Development Initiative (HPECDI), a non-governmental organisation, has harped on the need for Nigerians to shun smoking particularly in public places.
• Nigeria:Firm Introduces New Drug to Tackle Infant Mortality
  [Guardian] With close to one million children lost annually to pre-mature births in Nigeria due to non-availability of appropriate medicine, Thompson & Grace Pharmaceuticals Limited (T&G Pharma) has introduced measures to curtail the trend.
• Uganda:91 Radioactive Facilities Operating Without Licence
  [Monitor] Kampala -At least 91 health, industrial and other facilities are operating radiation sources, including X-ray services, without permission and licence from the Atomic Energy Council, risking the lives of those seeking the services.
• Uganda:300 to Get Free Rabies Vaccines
  [Monitor] Kampala -At least 300 city residents are expected to be vaccinated against rabies, a disease spread through bites by pets such as dogs and cats in an exercise that starts today.
• Kenya:Sonko Sets Up Free Medical Camp in Mua to Honour His Late Father
  [Capital FM] Nairobi -Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko on Thursday set up a free medical camp in Mua to honour of his late father, Gideon Kioko Mbuvi Kivanguli.
• Congo-Kinshasa:Update on Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
  [MSF] North Kivu -MSF continues its intervention in response to the Ebola outbreak in Beni, North Kivu, DRC
• Congo-Kinshasa:Ebola Virus Disease - External Situation Report 5
  [WHO] Date of issue: 4 September 2018Data as reported by: 2 September 2018
• Congo-Kinshasa:DRC Ebola Outbreak Expands to Large City as Beni Cases Rise
  [Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy] In a pair of worrying developments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak, a patient with the virus died in Butembo, a city of nearly 1 million people, and more cases were reported in Beni, an emerging hot spot where community resistance and violent incidents have recently been reported.
• Nigeria:Govt Approves U.S.$17 Billion National Health Plan
  [Leadership] The federal government has approved a five-year national health plan at the cost of N6.071 trillion. The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, who disclosed this yesterday after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the presidential villa, Abuja, stated that the plan was approved at the National Council on Health meeting in Kano on June 21, 2018. According to him, if the health plan, which has the input and approval of development partners, is implemented
• Namibia:Omaheke Seeks Trauma Centre for Road Casualties
  [Namibian] OMAHEKE governor Festus Ueitele says there is an urgent need for the setting up of a trauma response centre in the region to offer assistance to road accident survivors.
• Ghana:Keeper's House, Ruc Organise Health Screening for Madina Residents
  [Ghanaian Times] The Keeper's House Chapel in collaboration with Radford University College (RUC), has organised a free health screening exercise for more than 1,000 residents of Madina, in Accra.
• Africa:A Short History of a Messy 'Problem', or How the World Taught You to Fear Your Period
  [Bhekisisa] In her new book, Anna Dahlqvist dissects menstruation shame and its consequences.
• Nigeria:Health Security Conference Unveils 200 Research Post Ebola
  [Daily Trust] At least 200 presentations are slated to be made this week at the 3rd ever scientific conference organised by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (NFELTP).
• Congo-Kinshasa:African Union Begins Deploying Health Workers to Fight Ebola in the DRC
  [African Union] Kinshasa -The African Union has begun sending qualified African health workers into the regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo, that are affected by the latest Ebola outbreak to hit the continent.
• Congo-Kinshasa:Ebola Death Toll Rapidly Increasing
  [CAJ News] Kinshasa -IT is feared the latest outbreak of the Ebola virus that has killed at least 75 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is going to be the most fatal in the region.
• Zambia:Zambia Dismisses Reports of Ebola Outbreak
  [Premium Times] Health authorities in Zambia on Tuesday dismissed reports that the country has recorded its first Ebola case.
• Tanzania:Dar Scores High in Fighting Bilharzia, Guinea Worm
  [Daily News] TANZANIA has made tremendous strides in eradicating Bilharzia and Guinea Worm Disease, thanks to ambitious school health programme currently undertaken by the government.
• Nigeria:Fresh Concerns Over Rising TB Cases, Deaths
  [Guardian] There are fresh concerns that every individual living in Nigeria will likely be infected with tuberculosis if swift and adequate responses are not taken.