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Your Excellency ,In this series,our discourse will centre  more on the solutions  to the crisis and the roles of pharmacists and medical laboratory scientists in our current tertiary institutions.      While as a student,I  had two pieces of experience ,which are still guiding my decision making till these days. There was a time in my university when the activities of cultists were at an alarming rate. As a new vice-chancellor came on board,he studied the possible causes of this societal problem. He discovered that my university was admitting more students for diploma programmes than bachelor and postgraduate programmes. He equally found out that greater percentage of these cultists were diploma students hence he banned diploma programmes and immediately, the rate of cultism was brought to the barest minimum ,though the diploma programmes were later reintroduced when the internally-generated revenue of the school nosedived. The question now is,what is the relationship b

Dr Paul John..discusses HIV and AIDS as we celebrate world AIDS Day...enjoy. The first world AIDS day was held about 26 years ago( 1988) after health ministers from around the world met in London and agreed to such a day as a way of highlighting the enormity of the AIDS pandemic and nation's responsibility to ensure universal treatment,care and support for people living with HIV and AIDS. The idea was conceived in 1987 by two public information officers,James Bunn and Thomas Netter, who were workers of the WHO's global programme on AIDS  but the final approval was given by Dr Jonathan Mann ,former head of the Global programme on AIDS but now known as UNAIDS . It is observed annually on the first day of December.  It is recognized by UNO and all her affiliate international organisations and member countries. BRIEF HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION In 1981,medical practitioners in USA discovered a strange illness among a small number of gay men. The illness was given

Good day dear friends, The crisis in the Nigeria healthcare sector presently is capable of destroying healthcare delivery in Nigeria permanently. As i write this, the JOHESU are on a month old strike in all federal tertiary hospitals which has brought service delivery to the barest minimum and their counterparts in the states and local governments are expected to join  the strike today, which will further cripple healthcare delivery all over the country. Not too long ago,i was compelled to write an article 'What do Doctors really want?', and i followed it up with another article, 'Doctors are wicked'. all of which can be seen in my blog. drnnanna.blogspot.com. Following this a lot of persons have been commenting, analyzing and proffering solutions on how to end this imbroglio. Therefore with the permission of the author i will reproduce verbatim an open letter written by a colleague to Mr President. Here it is AN UNENDING CRISIS IN OUR HEALTH SECTOR;AN OPEN LETTER