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The aid organization Doctors Without Borders has been given permission to land a group of 111 ill migrants in Sicily, after waiting in the Mediterranean Sea for about a week.

The Geo Barents ship would now call at the port in Augusta, the organization announced on Twitter on Monday. It rescued the people in distress at sea in two missions at the beginning of March.

The volunteers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms also brought 28 rescued people to Augusta at the end of last week.

People continually get into distress on the dangerous crossing from north Africa towards the EU. Their destination was usually Italy, from where many make their way further north in the hope of a better life.
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So far this year the Italian authorities have registered almost 6,000 migrants arriving in boats, which was roughly the same number as in the same period in 2021.

The Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria (MWAN), Kaduna State branch has expressed concern over insecurity in the country, appealing for more urgent actions from the Federal Government
The association expressed the concern in Kaduna on Saturday, at its 8th Biennial Conference and Annual General Meeting, held in Kaduna.
The branch President, Dr Anisah Yahya, said that the theme of the conference, “Insecurity: A Growing Epidemic within a Pandemic” was chosen to drive discussions on the disturbing security challenges.
Yahya said that the development was impacting negatively on the country’s healthcare delivery systems and disrupting the needed peace for sustainable development.
According to her, no nation will develop in an atmosphere of insecurity, stressing that the security challenge was impacting on the nation’s health system.
“We know that the federal and state governments are doing all that they can to address the challenge, but more need to be done.
“We are calling for more concerted efforts to address the insecurity that is compounding the healthcare delivery system and threatening health security in the country.”
The Kaduna State Commissioner of Health, Dr Amina Mohammed-Baloni commended MWAN for driving discussions on insecurity and COVID-19 pandemic, with a view to finding a lasting solution to the challenge.
Mohammed-Baloni, who was represented by Dr Joseph Sunday, the Director, Planning Research and Statistics, noted that insecurity had posed a significant threat to effective healthcare delivery in the country.
She called on all Nigerians and relevant stakeholders to support ongoing efforts by the federal and state governments to address the security challenges.
In a keynote address, Dr Abubabakar Zakari, UN Security Officer, described security as “a protection of freedom and absence of fear”, adding that both COVID-19 and insecurity kills and displaced victims.
Zakari said that the insecurity and the pandemic had impacted adversely on human security, restricting movement of people; difficult to manage and require a huge budget to contain.
According to him, this poses a huge threat to human security, environmental, food, personal, political, and economic security.
The Chairperson Central Organising Committee, Dr Zainab Muhammad-Idris, said that the association would continue to provide platforms to discuss tropical national issues as part of contribution to finding solutions.

The Nigeria Association of Government Medical and Dental Practitioners (NAGMDP), Kwara chapter, on Tuesday threatened to withdraw their services across the state over poor remuneration.

Their threat is contained in a letter addressed to Gov. Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara and other stakeholders.

It was jointly signed by the chairman and secretary of the association, Dr Saka Agboola, and Dr Ayinde Musa, and made available to newsmen in Ilorin.

According to the medical practitioners, the threat to withdraw their services is also due to poor condition of service.

The association said that the poor working conditions had “resulted to a major cause of mass resignation and brain drain which we are currently experiencing among doctors and other health care workers in the state’’.

“With reference to the letter sent to your Excellency dated June 16, 2021 titled ‘Letter of request’ and subsequent reminders dated July 13 and July 27 2021 respectively, drawing your attention.

“On Friday Aug. 27, 2021, an emergency general meeting of NAGMDP, Kwara State chapter was held,’’ it said.

The letter said the sole agenda of the meeting was to brief the general house on the effort and doggedness of the state executive council to bring to the governor’s attention the need to better reposition the condition of service of our members and other relevant health care workers.

It added that this was necessary in order to prevent the imminent collapse of health care system in our state.

The association insisted that the state government must recruit more medical officers in addition to constant replacement of those that were resigning on daily basis.

“There should be provision for adequate security in all of our hospitals to avoid breaking down of law and order by patients and their relatives.

“The state government should provide patients relatives building in hospitals, where relatives can be in comfort, while health workers take care of their relatives on admission,’’ it said.

The association also urged payment of COVID-19 allowances to members and other health care workers, as well as provision of a vehicle and housing loan facility at single digit interest rate to all members as a way of motivation and retention in service.

“There must be provision of adequate basic medical equipment in all our hospitals.

“Domestication of residency training Act in the state to afford our members who are interested in the pursuit of their post graduate medical education, among other demands.

According to the association, if our demands are not met by Sept. 13, 2021, we shall have no alternative than to withdraw the service of our members across all the hospitals in the State.

“We hope government and its relevant ministry will do the needful by avoiding unnecessary disruption of health care services across the state, part of the letter read.

Reacting to the development, Mr Oladimeji Sa’ad-Aluko, the Director-General of Kwara State Hospital Management Bureau said that the governor was looking at their demands.

According to him, the issue of salary increase is not peculiar to Kwara alone but the whole country, and that the Federal Government also is unable to solve the issues they have with National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD).

“The government is taking decisive effort to making sure that we are able to meet those demands before the deadline given to the government.

“The government is ensuring that no stone is left unturned, so we are doing everything we need to do to make sure that they will not come back and ask for another increase,” he said.

Sa’ad-Aluko said that the government had approved recruitment of more hospital staff, adding that the approval had been sent to the Civil Service Commission to carry out the proper employment procedure.

Nearly 3,000 striking junior doctors working in six government medical colleges in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh resigned from their posts, officials said on Friday.

The doctors tendered resignations on Thursday after Madhya Pradesh high court described their protest as “illegal’’ and directed the doctors in the state to resume their duties within 24 hours.

“The government did not accept our demands but only gave us assurance, therefore, we did not end our strike.

“So far 3,000 junior doctors have submitted their resignations to the dean of their respective colleges,” Madhya Pradesh Junior Doctors Association (MPJDA) Secretary Ankita Tripathi said.

The doctors also announced that they will challenge the high court ruling.

The junior doctors, demanded a hike in stipend and free treatment for them and their families if they contract Coronavirus (COVID-19) and started an indefinite strike on Monday.

The court said in case the striking doctors do not resume duties within the set timeframe, the state government must take stern action against them.

The court condemned the junior doctors’ decision to go on a strike at the time of the ongoing pandemic and said such a step cannot be encouraged during a health crisis.