Senior Staff Association of University Teaching Hospitals, Research Institutes and Associated Institutions of Nigeria (SSAUTHRIAI), has called on federal and state governments to pay monetisation arrears of its colleges of education members.

A witness from Ife East Local Government of Osun State , Mr. Bambo Adegoke, who came to give evidence in support of the Senate Committee Chairman on Appropriation, Otunba Iyiola Omisore, yesterday collapsed in the witness box under cross-examination.

Health in Namibia has improved in many areas, the World Health Organisation (WHO) representative in the country said yesterday.

A distress call has been made to the Nigerian Police by an embattled medical doctor, Oluwole Adeoye Daini, whohas been in legal battle with the University of Ibadan over seizure of his certificate.

Major progress can be achieved within the next eight years through scaling up health programmes relating to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), says Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.

Parliament passed a motion to allow the introduction of a Bill seeking to regulate production and use of plastics in the country.

Governments of West African countries have been asked to dedicate 15 percent of their budget towards revamping the health sector.

Kalanga district has only one medical doctor who serves as the district director of health services, the LC5 chairman, Daniel Kikoola, has said.

Health centres in Bushenyi district have run short of gas, affecting the immunisation exercise, the district chairman has said.

Cholera continues to claim lives in the north with the latest statistics standing at 13 deaths.

At least 11 people have died in Dhahar district in the Sanaag region of northern Somalia, after an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD), medical sources said.

Moderate hunger has been endemic in the Liberian capital for years, but as the effects of soaring global food and fuel prices have doubled rice prices, the aid agency Action Against Hunger (ACF) says thousands of city children are increasingly

Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (SCIA), has said that it would work with the National Action Committee on AIDS (NACAP) to reduce the spread of HIV and AIDS.

Global Challenges

A Canadian health support organisation Healthy Kids International (HKI) is to help Rwandan doctors acquire specialized training in child health.

Several kids residing in the Township of Virginia outside Monrovia have benefited from a two-day health fair organized by Dr. Roseda Marshall Ochillo on behalf of the Virginian Association of Liberians in the Americas. Dr. Ochillo is a Liberian pediatrician

South Africa is one of the 10 worst performing countries in reducing child deaths thus making progress towards reaching the fourth Millennium Development Goal (MDG), which aims to reduce by two-thirds the death rate of children by 2015.