Nigeria with the support of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has flagged off its national essential diagnostic list (NDEL), making it the first country to do so in Africa. Speaking during the ceremony in Abuja , Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said Nigeria is also the second country to develop Essential Diagnostics List (EDL) […]
The WHO director-general, Tedros Ghebreyesus, compared access to quality tests and laboratory services to a good radar system “that gets you where you need to go.”
The person hired to fill a newly created full-time public health position in the Lancaster County Emergency Management Agency is being paid nearly 50% less than the private consultant hired last year to advise the county on managing the COVID-19 pandemic.
That fact, revealed in a March 24 LNP | LancasterOnline story, drew a reader letter asking why the new full-time employee, a woman by the name of Violet De Stefano, is making less than Edwin Hurston, the male consultant hired last year. In other words, is the county engaging in a sexist employment practice by paying De Stefano less for similar work?