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President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law the bill establishing the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). According to Mr President on his twitter handle  "One of the Bills I signed into law last week is for an Act establishing the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC). The Agency has existed for seven years, without enabling legislation. Now @NCDCgov has an Act, and is further empowered to deliver on its very important mandate".   The agency, which has been in charge of disease surveillance, preparedness and control in Nigeria, was established in 2011 and has been in existence without any legislative backing.   The status quo however changed on Tuesday when the president appended his signature to the bill and empowered the agency to carry out its mandate in disease control.   The executive director of NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu, in a press statement made available to PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday, said the new Act which will establish NCDC as a f

NURSING INTERNSHIP IN NIGERIA - What You Must Know Compiled By Nurse Princewill Aghedo On Reception of the circular from the Head of Service of the Federation to the Hon. Minister of Health (Ref.No.HCSF/EPO/EIR/CND/100/ST dated 7th,September 2016), the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) concluded arrangements for the commencement of the Internship for University Graduates from January 2017. The Nursing Internship is a paid one year work-in-training programme put together to enable University Graduate Nurses match their theoretical and clinical knowledge with practical Nursing Tasks and practices in a hospital setting. ▪BENEFITS OF INTERNSHIP -provide interns with the chance to use thorough clinical judgement and critical thinking skills throughout patient care process ▪it afford interns the opportunity to implement learned knowledge and behaviours into real -world scenarios ▪To collaborate in care services across multiple healthcare departments. ▪it afford Interns

THE EPIC ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE AWARENESS WEEK- NURSES SPEAK The World Health Organization (WHO) once again sounds its alarm, triggering another resounding awareness on the global mainstream the catastrophic phenomen Antibiotic abuse, misuse and disuse will have on global health, food security and development, it is imperative that all stakeholders in the private and government sectors in Nigeria be ready to deal with a greater hydra-headed problem than HIV/AIDS, haemorrhagic diseases, malaria, hepatitis, malnutrition, cholera, and other non-communicable biological assaults like cancer.  ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANCE- CAUSES, EFFECTS AND CONTROL. Antibiotics are drugs used to fight the spread of diseases by killing the bacteria causing them, it was biotechnology designed against bacteria not humans. Meanwhile, over the decades, the bacteria have re-evolved and gone through several biological reengineering to resist the biochemical activities of antibiotics and have continued to pass on that