Adeyemi-Levites: From medical school to chartered accountancy
Lara Adejoro
Oluwadamilare Adeyemi-Levites studied medicine due to parental influence and environmental pressure despite wanting to study Economics or Finance.
After six years in medical school, one year of internship, and a year as a medical officer, he decided to hang his stethoscope for healthcare financing, risk management, and insurance.
Adeyemi-Levites said apart from going after his passion, poor remuneration, inadequate resources, and poor working environment helped form his decision of transitioning to another career.
To launch into his new career direction, he wrote the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants exams to become a chartered accountant, seven years ago.
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People living with diabetes in Nigeria have lamented the high cost of medication and treatment for the condition.
They also decry how perceived lack of government policy worsens their condition.
This is even as experts say there are between three- andfive million people living with diabetes in the country.
Speaking with our correspondent, the South-West Chairman, Diabetes Association of Nigeria, Abdulwahab Dauda, said there was no policy for diabetes in the country.
“The government doesn’t even know we exist. It’s only some of the pharmaceutical companies that support us.
“There is no policy to support our condition in the country. We have been making moves regarding this, but, so far, we have not succeeded.
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Medical experts in the country have said that complications arising from the practice of traditional bone-setting is a major contributor to the challenges that orthopaedic practitioners face in Nigeria.
Theysaid that complications arising from the activities of traditional bonesetters constitute a serious challenge to orthopaedic practice, with associated negative socio-economic impact.
This is even as some researchers recommend that traditional bonesetters not only be taught certain injury management techniques, but to also be incorporated into the Nigerian healthcare system.
A study, titled, Traditional Bonesetters and Contemporary Orthopaedic Fracture Care in a Developing Nation: Historical Aspects, Contemporary Status and Future Directions, published in The Open Orthopaedics Journal, suggests that bonesetters be allowed to fill perceived void created by the severe lack of surgeons.
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Contrary to claims in certain quarters, experts warn that there is no supplement that is capable of shrinking or dissolving fibroid.
They warn that, in reality, nonsurgical and medical options for fibroid treatment are extremely limited
A fibroid is a benign growth in the womb of a woman and its symptoms commonly include pelvic pain, vagina bleeding which could either be within her cycle or during her menstrual flow when the flow is heavier than normal.
Other symptoms include painful sex, backache, constipation, and infertility.
According to a study published by the U.S-based National Centre for Biotechnology Information, uterine fibroid is the most common disease of women of reproductiveage, affecting 25 percent of African American women at the age of 25 and up to 80 percent African American women by the age of menopause.
WHO reviews COVID-19 draft financing framework Monday
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The World Health Organisation says itwill review strategic priorities towards the drafting of financing framework in order to close the ACT Accelerator’s financing gap for 2021.
The global health agency said almost one billion doses of leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates had been secured as part of the COVAX Facility, and 189 countries and economies are now participating.
Speaking during a virtual media briefing on COVID-19, the Director-General of WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, noted that the COVAX is in discussions with several other manufacturers and further deals will be announced in the near future.