By Kristof Decoster On January 31, 2013 · On January 22nd, Lancet editor and Twitter afficionado Richard Horton was in a rather grumpy mood. He was attending the 132nd WHO Executive Board meeting in Geneva and, being Richard Horton, he obviously had a number of incisive questions and blunt comments …
Read More »GHANA:Your Rights As a Patient in Seeking Health Care
November 2013 TheChronicle; Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, optometry, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers. It refers to the work done in providing primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care, as well as in public health. Primary …
Read More »NIGERIA:Tinubu Urges the Appointment of Medical Doctors as Health Minister
May 2012 ThisDayLive;Policy conception and implementation with regard to Health and development issues will benefit greatly if medical doctors are appointed Ministers of Health in Nigeria. Former, Governor Tinubu made this assertion while receiving the leadership of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), who paid him a courtesy call ahead of …
Read More »