Health

By Bassey Udo To avoid service disruption to subscribers, the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on Monday waded into the lingering dispute between Health Care Providers (HCPs) and Health Maintenance Organisations (HMOs) in the country. The intervention in the crisis by the NHIS was pursuant to its mandate as the…

By Bassey Udo Nigeria and 10 other countries included last week in UK’s red list of those perceived to be possible destinations with high prevalence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 have been removed. Following the review of the latest risk assessment from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), the…

MEDIATRACNET The ongoing reforms in the country’s health sector will be successfully and smoothly concluded, the Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Alex Okoh, has assured. Okoh made the pledge recently when the Rotary Club of Ibadan Onireke Neighbourhood honoured him with an award of Excellence for…

MEDIATRACNET More condemnations have continued to trail UK government’s decision to include Nigeria in its red travel list over the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Nigeria’s inclusion in the list took effect from Monday as the UK government announced fresh precautionary measures to prevent further spread of the Omicron variant into…

MEDIATRACNET Monday’s inclusion of Nigeria in UK’s travel red list of potential Omicron variant indemic zones has elicited criticisms from Nigerians and other Africans leaders, with some describing the ban as wicked and unfair. Nigeria became the 11th country to be listed among countries banned for international travels. But those…

MEDIATRACNET  As part of temporary measures to prevent further spread into the UK of the dreaded Omicron variant of COVID-19, the British government has announced the decision to add Nigeria in the its travel red list from Monday. The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, said the decision to…

MEDIATRACNET The World Bank Group has asked the Federal Government to impose special taxes on the consumption of alcohol, cigarettes and sugar-sweetened beverages to fund improved primary healthcare system in Nigeria. The World Bank made the suggestion on Friday in Abuja at a special National Council on Health meeting organised…

MEDIATRACNET Nigeria now has sufficient stock of vaccines to ramp up vaccination for about 50 percent of its target population, the Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Faisal Shuaib, has said. Shuaib confirmed this while briefing the National Economic Council on the status of the country’s COVID-19…

MEDIATRACNET Both tax payers and revenue collection agencies must continue to work together to sustain the new role tax and other non-oil revenue sources are playing in the Nigerian economy. Since the beginning of the dwindling of oil revenues as a result of the impact of coronavirus pandemic on the…

MEDIATRACNET The Federal Government has said it is considering the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to complement the budgetary allocations to the health sector. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo disclosed this on Monday in Abuja when he met with Nigerian-born Michael Ugwueke, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Methodist Hospitals,…