Browsing: Isaac Adewole

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, said that the Emergency Management System policy which was launched last February would reduce morbidity and mortality and ensure that there was prompt response to emergencies.

Adewole, who paid a courtesy visit to Oyetola at his campaign office on Tuesday in Osogbo, said Oyetola’s emergence would ensure continuity of the developmental projects embarked on by the incumbent governor, Rauf Aregbesola.

Nigerians must be prepared for a disease outbreak anytime as global warming and ease of transportation have made it easy for an outbreak in any country to get to another fast.

The minister made this known at the opening of the 61st National Council on Health meeting.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, made this known while briefing newsmen in Abuja on Monday.

He said that tobacco, whether Shisha, cigar or cigarette, was harmful to the health, adding that the ministry was working with key stakeholders toward an eventual ban of the product in the country.

The Minister said the purpose of his visit was to either confirm or debunk the rumour that passengers arriving Nigeria were not screened at their points of entry.

Last week, Saraki began mediating in the ongoing strike action that has crippled Nigeria’s healthcare facilities for the past 40 days.

The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, after a meeting with the leadership of JOHESU on Thursday, where he listened to their grievances and demands, on Friday met with the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, and the Minister of Labour, Dr. Chris Ngige, to hear their own side of the issue.

The Minister made this call in Abuja while speaking at the sensitization workshop on immunization organized by the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Partners and Head of Civil Service of the Federation for civil servants.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, made this known while briefing the press on the current status of Lassa Fever in Nigeria and the outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of in Congo.

The Minister of Health, Dr Isaac Adewole, the Director-General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS, Dr Sani Aliyu and the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington, signed the agreement in Abuja.

For many who knew him while growing up, whether in Ilesa, Ibadan or Akure in Ondo State, where he completed his primary education, Adewole was always in a rush to get things done. He had to traverse three States of Oyo, Osun and Ondo States for his primary education due to the fact that he was always on the move with his Uncle, who was then a staff of the Cocoa Marketing Board.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, made the decision known in a statement issued by Olajide Oshundun, Assistant Director of Information in the ministry, in Abuja on Tuesday.

Adewole said the directive became necessary due to the gross abuse Codeine usage has been subjected to in the country.

Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, stated this at the launch of National Cancer Control Plan 2018-2022 in Abuja.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, made the appeal during the exit press briefing by WHO Director-General, Dr Tedro Ghebreyesus, on Friday in Abuja.

He disclosed this at the Malaria Public Sector Stakeholders meeting on dissemination of the Achievements of the MAPS-C project of Africare, an NGO, in collaboration with Exxonmobil, in Abuja.

This followed the continued protest by workers over the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari that the suspended NHIS helmsman, Prof. Usman Yusuf, be reinstated.

Adewole made the appeal at an emergency meeting of the National Council on Health, organised by the Federal Ministry of Health in Abuja.