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Abuja 17 November 2021 - In November 2019, Ijeoma Uchenna, 25 years old, was rushed to the hospital because she had a premature rupture of the membranes and mild contractions. 

The baby was born at 33 weeks of pregnancy through an emergency Cesarean Section at a private hospital in Kubwa, Abuja. 

Abuja, 11 November, 2021 - Abubakar Yabagi from Niger State believes negligence made him develop type two diabetes and poor health.

The 65-year-old civil servant and father of four further narrated that “I got diagnosed for Type two diabetes seven years ago when I was 57 years. It all started with frequent headache and I thought it was prevalent Malaria which I kept treating with no little or no improvement. After several months, my sight started deteriorating and that was when I decided to go and see a doctor”.

Maiduguri, 15 November, 2021 - The Biannual Joint Operations Review (JOR) opens in Maiduguri, Borno State today, 15 November 2021 with participation by representative of Borno Stat Governor, Commissioners for Health, partners and Civil Society Organizations.

The 4-Day event is expected to review WHO's health emergency programme in Northeast region, revise strategies to inform the development of the WHO plan for 2022.

Kampala, November 13, 2021 - The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Rt.Hon. Anita Among, and a team from the World Health Organization (WHO), led by the WHO Representative, Dr Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam, committed to working together to promote mental health in the country. This was at a meeting held at the Ugandan Parliament in Kampala.

Background

As signatory to the International Health Regulations (IHR), Namibia is required to strengthen its core capacities for health security.  Following the Joint External Evaluation (JEE) in 2016, the country invested resources to attend to the recommendations from the JEE report. A National Action Plan for Health Security was also launched in 2020.    As part of this process, National IHR Focal Point Network was updated in early 2021 and 15 IHR focal persons were identified from various ministries and agencies using the one health approach. 

 Maiduguri, 12 November, 2021 - In Maiduguri, Borno state, the World Health Organization Country Representative, Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo, commissioned solar panels at the polio laboratory to support the state government in sustaining the intervention of essential health services. 

Violence against women and girls is a violation of their human rights and is largely hidden, stigmatized, and unrecognized by health and other service providers. Despite the robust policy and legal framework in Namibia, women and girls are still exposed to violence throughout their lifecycle whether at home, schools or the communities they live in.  Globally and in Namibia one in three women experience physical and/ or sexual violence; majority perpetrated by intimate partners.

WHO with support from the Government of Japan donated 16 Portable Ultrasound Machines worth N$ 801,843.00 to the Ministry of Health and Social Services 25 October 2021.

The Minister of Health and Social Services, Hon. Dr. Shangula said that the equipment presented, will play an important role in the clinical management of conditions presented in pregnant women. . It will further promote quality assurance and address geographical and cultural barriers that may have caused delays in women seeking care.