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The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says the Federal Government plans to establish 100 oxygen generation plants across the country to ensure oxygen sufficiency. He said this on Tuesday in Abuja, during the 17th edition of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration scorecard series where he featured. According to Ehanire, before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, there were less than 30 functional oxygen plants in the country and the pandemic gave rise to the need for oxygen sufficiency. He said that many responses to the pandemic came with certain benefits which included the activation of old, moribund oxygen plants and the establishment of new ones. Ehanire said that some of the responses to the pandemic prompted the setting up and revamping of facilities which were not existent before such as isolation centres and treatment facilities across the country for different diseases. He added that the Federal Government established molecular laboratories at every federal tertiary hospital, constructed and equipped 10 bedded intensive care units and isolation units in every tertiary hospital. “ We realised in the course of COVID-19 the importance of oxygen, and that the oxygen plants we had in the country before were less than 30, with many of them not functional, so the first thing we did was to get support to activate the existing oxygen plants and to build new ones. “The Federal Government built one oxygen plant per state in every one of the federal institutions and later on we were able to get funding from Global Fund and UNICEF to further build more. “Today we have over 90 oxygen generation plants from less than about 30 functional ones before and we are going to have one oxygen generating plant in every senatorial zone so that we have over 100 functional oxygen plants. “This is so that oxygen is available throughout the country and we have full oxygen sufficiency both for private and public hospitals and even for Primary Health Care (PHC) centres across the country and the question of oxygen not being available will be a thing of the past.” On the containment of the pandemic, he said the Federal Government, through the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), took several proactive actions to vaccinate Nigerians. This was to achieve the immunity required to interrupt COVID-19 community transmission in the country.
Family Planning: FG To Rely On Donors To Pay $4m Debts – Enahire
The Federal Government says it is relying on donor partners to pay its contribution of $4 million for the annual purchase of contraceptives through a Basket Fund with external donors. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja, during the Ministerial bi-weekly Meeting on the update of COVID-19 response and development in the country’s health sector. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ehanire, in March 2022, renewed the financial commitment on behalf of Nigeria with the backing of the Federal Executive Council. The country, with UNFPA, the United Nations Sexual and Reproductive Health agency, and others committed to sharing the cost of contraceptives with UNFPA as of 2023. In line with Nigeria’s FP2020 commitment, the Federal Government should contribute $4 million annually to purchase contraceptives through a Basket Fund with external donors. However, Nigeria has not committed to this sum since 2018, and contributions from the UNFPA and other donors account for the bulk of funds utilised to procure family planning commodities in the country. The need to increase domestic financing, however, became paramount to ensure sustainable financing for family planning commodities and service provision, to reduce the severe donor dependency, especially in the face of dwindling foreign aid. The minister did not disclose the donor partners that would bail out the country from this debt. He blamed the $4 million debts on COVID -19 pandemic. “ Why the country could not pay its counterpart funding for FP was that COVID-19 became the immediate problem the government needed to solve then. “ As soon as we have finalised the plans we will disclose the donor partners,” he said. The minister said that the COVID-19 pandemic had diverted funding from essential family planning services and strained national health budgets, reinforcing the critical need to finance sexual and reproductive health services in times of crisis.
A new study has revealed that watermelon can help in controlling fat from consuming western diets. The study was published in Journal of Nutrition. It claims that watermelon intake has visible effects on blood pressure regulation along with other health benefits. Even consuming watermelon frequently as a dessert, fruit salad and in garnishing drinks could remediate metabolic complications that come with junk foods and a Western-style diet high in fat. Experts, in a new study, said supplementing a diet high in fat with watermelon as a dessert, fruit salad and in garnishing drinks diet improved fasting blood glucose, circulating insulin concentrations in the blood, and changes in liver metabolite accumulation. Even with a modest level of supplementation, the fiber-rich additives further improved glucose breakdown and energy efficiency. It was in the March 2020 edition of the Journal of Nutrition. Watermelon is an unusual fruit source of the lycopene and an excellent source of water. It contains unusual amounts of the amino acids and citrulline. Also, watermelon is an excellent source of immune-supportive vitamin C and vitamin A (9.0 mg), potassium (11.2 mg) and magnesium (10.2 mg). Lots of evidence shows that it can be effective for weight loss because of its fewer quantities of fats. As a result, the consumption of watermelon provides long-term health benefits such as reduced risk of heart disease, improved blood pressure in hypertension patients and decrease low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidation. The researchers had assessed the intake of watermelon in high-fat–fed male mice. Ten-week-old male mice were provided either a low-fat diet or a high fat diet with watermelon skin or watermelon skin and rind were added at 2.25 per cent of diet. Body weights, food intake and glucose tolerance were determined. The final body weight of the low fat control group was significantly lower than that of the high fat-fed control group. Mice in treatment groups fed high fat supplemented with watermelon products had final body weights similar to those of the high fat-fed control mice. Insulin concentrations in the blood were reduced by approximately 40 per cent in mice fed a high fat diet with watermelon rind supplementation compared with mice fed a high fat diet alone. Depending on the individual species or group, microbiome populations changed significantly. Moreover, in another study researchers had corroborated the antidiabetic potential of watermelon juice in alloxan-induced diabetic rats and declared that its juice may have a useful clinical application in the management of diabetes mellitus and its metabolic complications if de- veloped as adjuvant therapy. It was in the April 2020 edition of the Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders. Diabetes was induced in the rats and these animals were randomly grouped into five groups of normal control, untreated diabetic control, diabetic rats administered 200 mg/kg body weight of metformin, diabetic rats administered 500 mg/kg body weight of watermelon juice and diabetic rats administered 1000 mg/kg body weight of watermelon juice. The rats were sacrificed on the 14th day of the experiment and various parameters were also evaluated in their blood and body tissues. Culled from Tribune online
A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Adicare Rehabilitation Home, yesterday said the abuse of social media and entertainment is injurious to mental health. The President of the organisation, Mrs Veronica Ezeh, said this in an interview with The Tide source in Lagos. Ezeh said she would use her NGO to provide information and enlightenment programmes for the management of mental health to avoid depression and suicide. She said that depression could not be solved by sticking to the internet as some people resort to when faced with life challenges or depression. “A lot of people resort to the internet whenever they are depressed, this is not the solution, people should rather seek physical help by consulting a counsellor. “People seeking for help online cannot get it, instead what they get are the negative things that have led many to suicide. “The rate of suicide in Nigeria is high due to social media abuse; many of the things people are watching on their mobile phones are not helpful to them. “In our society, we thrive more on social interaction which is being destroyed by social media now, many now chat online with their friends instead of visiting, this is not helpful,’’ she said. Ezeh said that destroying social interaction via internet would not help in times of depression. Also speaking, a mental health advocate, Ms Halima Layeni, said that entertainment industry has not been helpful in curbing anti-social behaviour among youths. Layeni, Founder, Life After Abuse Foundation (LAAF), lamented that the display on entertainment had misled many, particularly youths into committing different kinds of crimes and atrocities. According to her, the entertainment industry portrays anti-social behaviours such as smoking hard drugs and other bad behaviours as normal lifestyle. “I think the entertainment industry has not been helpful in curbing anti-social behaviours among the youths. “The sad part of this is that most Nigerian youths are looking up to the artistes as role models but instead they are misleading them. “In recent times, social media has almost taken away our life, it is a distraction we must avoid, some don’t even bother to visit again, instead they chat their friends online. “We need to go back to our original culture of social interaction and communal integration, this has worked for us in the past, social media should not take that away,’’ she said. She called for the regulation of the entertainment industry to curb the rate of social vices in the country.
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