Medical Mirror

As we celebrate the 2023 International Nurses week, we remember our “promises” to these amazing Nightingale healthcare professionals, and call on all relevant stakeholders to remember… and act appropriately.

https://medicalmirror.org/broken-promises-empty-promises-a-call-to-remember/

Happy International nurses week to all our beautiful nurses of the world, we love and appreciate you!

Today we celebrate the themed: “Shaping a Future of Rights: Freedom of expression as a driver for all other human rights”.

And in partnership with The Press Club, UNILAG we discuss the enabling element of freedom of expression and it pivotal role in protecting all other human rights across different areas of & .

SHI Maternal Health Summit: Improving Maternal Health and Rights towards Sustainable Development.

Globally, April 11 is a day set aside by international bodies actively involved in the maternal health space to celebrate the International Day of Maternal Health and Rights (IDMH).

In Nigeria, this day is usually marked with a Maternal health Summit organised by a non-governmental organisation in Lagos.

In preparation of the 2023 IDMH summit, the convening organisation shares the outcome of the previously hosted Maternal Health Summit in 2019 and 2022.

Maternal health is not the absence of diseases, but it is a state of wellbeing both in the physical, mental, emotional, social health during pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal period.

Some of the recognised causes of maternal mortality globally within the healthcare system include Hypertensive disorders (Pre-eclampsia / Eclampsia), Obstetric haemorrhage, Sepsis, Unsafe abortion and others.

Between 2019 and 2022, the summit was able to engage about 120 participants and 40 key organisations from different states of the nation for propelling discussions and commitments towards providing quality maternal health solutions that would be applicable, attainable and sustainable by all.

Read more about this here – https://medicalmirror.org/shi-maternal-health-summit-improving-maternal-health-and-rights-towards-sustainable-development/

Lagos Medical Students host free Immunization Project in Mushin Community.

The Standing Committee on Policy Implementation (SCOPI) of the Nigerian Medical Student’s Association popularly (NiMSA) led a series of outreach project at various institutions in the country, of which the Association of Medical Student, University of Lagos (AMSUL) was one of the hosts.

Although the project was initially scheduled for 7th of May 2022, it was indefinitely postponed due to the recalcitrant Academic Staff University Union (ASUU) strike that led to students been sent home across all tertiary institution.

However, after seven months of staying at home, school resumed formal activities, and the program was executed on the 10th of December 2022, at Mushin, Lagos.

The project team lead – Hafsat. I. Inuwa, the NiMSA-SCOPI Liaison Officer for AMSUL – shared that she took up this project as a challenge to impact young people, the elderly and deliver vaccination to the residents of the Mushin Community.

Read more at – https://medicalmirror.org/lagos-medical-students-host-free-immunization-project-in-mushin-community/

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"Medical Practitioners Can Be Very Good Politicians… with Better Monitoring, Evaluation and Self-auditing” – Dr. Minne Oseji, Perm. Sec., Ministries of Health and Environment.

There has been different dynamics to the recent happenings in medical and political sector of the nation – Nigeria.

Hence, one of our Medical Mirror (MM) correspondents, linked up with one of the renowned medical elder actively at the intersection of both sectors; to share her views and recommendations on the participation of medical practitioners, the state of our healthcare in Nigeria and beyond.

Read more on the interview here - https://medicalmirror.org/medical-practitioners-can-be-very-good-politicians-with-better-monitoring-evaluation-and-self-auditing-dr-minne-oseji-perm-sec-ministries-of-health-and-environment/