Health
Group campaigns against abortion in Kwara
The Coordinator, Children Evangelism Ministry (CEM) in Kwara, Mr Emmanuel Ayorinde, says babies in the womb are the most vulnerable and abused through abortions.
Ayorinde said this during an annual campaign and enlightenment walk against abortion, organised by CEM in collaboration with CSOs against abortion, in Ilorin on Monday.
The coordinator, who gave the theme of the campaign as “Don’t Kill The Baby, Choose Life”, said that abortion is an abheration to the purpose and plan of God.
He said that out of every 10 young girls aged 18, four to five of them have committed abortion, adding that babies in the womb are the most abused.
He called on the public, parents and government to make it a responsibility to save and protect children’s lives as one of the fundamental human rights.
“The aim of the organisation is to equip and empower children to fulfil destiny. We believe in total sanctity of life from conception to natural death.
“And anything we do to jeopardise this, is against the plan of God for humanity, and that is why we have decided to come out to let the public know that the sanctity of life must be preserved.
“One of the fundamental rights is right to life and we believe that a child at conception has the right to live.
“Babies in the womb are the most abused and vulnerable; they cry in silence and bear the pains of death through abortions and because their voice cannot be heard, we have decided to be their voice.
“Another troubling thing is that, abortion is not only among the unmarried alone, married couples also indulge in it, no baby should pay for the mistake and crime or made to bear the consequences of the parent’s actions.
“If anyone chose not to abstain, and fornicate which is a sin before God and it results in pregnancy, that baby should not be the one to suffer the consequences of your action,” he said.
The Coordinator of Anti-abortion Movement in Kwara, Mrs Light Olubo, also said a nation that supports killing of babies does not have a future.
Olubo, who said parents were not doing enough at training their children, tasked parents and the society on raising godly children, adding that they should teach children modesty and the fear of God.
“We are saying no to legalisation of abortion in Nigeria. Abortion is holocaust and we want to save the lives of the unborn.
“Statistics has it that over two million babies are killed in Nigeria and globally over 55 million babies are killed through abortions yearly.
“We want all hands on deck, let’s raise these children right, let the government do the needful in order to reduce abortion and not work towards legalising it.
“Abstinence is important, if youths abstain from sex, the issue of unwanted pregnancy and killing of babies won’t be there. The greatest child abuse that can be inflicted on any child is abortion,” Olubo said.
Master Amos Jonathan, a secondary school student at the event, said: “abortion is murder, it is termination of a baby’s life, it is a sin, it is a crime.
“Nigerians and the outside world should stand against abortion. We say no to legalisation of abortion in Nigeria, we say no to abortion.
“I want all my colleagues to stand against abortion and report abortion. I also want to advise those who want to abort a child, not to do it, it is a sin and an ungodly act. I wish you all a happy Valentine’s day.”
A National Youth Corps member, Mr Victoria Gbenu, said “abortion is evil, the life you cannot create why take it, you don’t know the future of any child.
“The dangers of abortion is numerous, it can damage the womb and make conception difficult in the future.
“Let us talk about the guilt it causes in the persons involved psychologically and emotionally, it weakens the body. I stand against abortion.
“If you have an unwanted pregnancy, NGOs and CSOs are out there to help you, don’t kill the baby, every child is a blessing, no child is a mistake.
“Abstaining from premarital sex is best prevention for unwanted pregnancy, if you are not ready to become parents,” Gbenu said. (NAN)
Hundreds of millions of children and adolescents around the world face daily violence in their homes, schools, and elsewhere which could have lifelong consequences.The World Health Organisation (WHO) said this on Thursday.The violence includes being hit by family members, being bullied at school, as well as physical, emotional, and sexual violence, WHO said.
In most cases, violence occurs behind closed doors. More than half of those aged two to 17 or more than a billion minors in total experience violence each year according to the WHO. In three out of five children and adolescents, it is physical violence at home, with one in five girls and one in seven boys experiencing sexual violence.Between a quarter and half of minors are affected by bullying according to the information provided.Only half of the children reportedly talk about their experiences of violence and less than 10 per cent receive help.Lifelong consequences could include depression and anxiety disorders, or tobacco and drug use.As a result, many children do not reach their learning potential in school.Against the backdrop of being highly preventable, violence remains a horrific day-to-day reality for millions of children around the world leaving scars that span generations,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director general.The UN’s first conference on violence against children opened in Bogota, Columbia on Thursday.At the two-day conference, more than 100 countries pledged to find ways to better support overwhelmed parents and introduce school programmes against bullying and for healthy social behaviour.They also pledged to raise the minimum age for marriage.Some countries wish to generally ban children from being hit at school or home. (dpa/NAN)
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has listed 17 bacteria, viruses and parasites that regularly cause disease as top priorities for new vaccine development.WHO, in a study published on Tuesday, reconfirmed long-standing priorities for vaccine research and development (R&D), including for HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis – three diseases that collectively take nearly 2.
5 million lives yearly. The study is the first global effort to systematically prioritise endemic pathogens based on their regional and global health impact. Attention is also given to pathogens such as Group A streptococcus, which causes severe infections and contributes to 280,000 deaths from rheumatic heart disease, mainly in lower-income countries.Another new priority is Klebsiella pneumoniae — a bacteria that was associated with 790,000 deaths in 2019 and is responsible for 40 per cent of neonatal deaths due to blood infection (sepsis) in low-income countries.The new study supports the goal of ensuring that everyone, everywhere, can benefit from vaccines that protect against serious diseases.It aims to shift the focus in vaccine development away from commercial returns towards regional and global health needs, WHO’s Dr Mateusz Hasso-Agopsowicz, who works in vaccine research, said in a statement.He explained that in the past, vaccine R&D typically was influenced by profitability.“As a result, diseases that severely affect low-income regions received little attention.“We hope this represents a critical shift where we want to change the focus from commercial perspective profitability of new vaccines towards the actual health burden so that the new vaccine research and development is driven by health burden and not just commercial opportunities,” he said.To carry out the study, WHO asked international and regional experts what they think is important when prioritising pathogens for vaccines R&D.Criteria included deaths, disease and socioeconomic impact, or antimicrobial resistance.“We had asked experts that have expertise in pathogen epidemiology, clinicians, paediatricians, vaccine experts from all of the WHO regions, to ensure that the list and the results that we produce really reflect the needs of diverse populations worldwide,” Hasso-Agopsowicz said.Analysis of those preferences, combined with regional data for each pathogen, resulted in the top 10 priority pathogens for each of WHO’s six regions globally.The regional lists were then consolidated to form the global list, resulting in the 17 priority endemic pathogens for which new vaccines are urgently needed.To advance vaccine R&D, WHO has categorised each pathogen based on the stage of vaccine development and the technical challenges involved in creating effective vaccines.Hasso-Agopsowicz said the study is expected to guide future vaccine R&D investments, including funders, researchers and vaccine developers, and also policymakers as they “can decide whether to introduce these vaccines into immunisation programmes.” (NAN)
The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU), University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan,has suspended the strike it embarked on Oct. 25.The workers resumed work on Friday morning.The seven-day nationwide warning industrial action embarked upon by the unions was to press home their demands ofadjustment of Consolidated Health Salary Structure as was done with the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure sinceJan.
2, 2014 and implementation of consultant cadre for pharmacists in federal health institutions. Others are upward review in the retirement age from 60 to 65 years for health workers and 70 years for consultants, andpayment of outstanding salaries of JOHESU members in professional regulatory councils.The UCH JOHESU Chairman, Mr Oladayo Olabampe, said that the strike was suspended as directed by the national body.He explained that “the suspension followed an MoU signed between JOHESU national leadership and Federal Government.“The Federal Government asked for a maximum of six weeks counting from Oct. 31, to meet our demands.“Based on the MoU signed, the JOHESU National Executive Council met and resolved that the strike be suspended on Fridaynationwide.”According to him, JOHESU UCH is obeying the order, and workers have resumed work.Olabampe said that if the demands were not met after the six weeks, they would embark on an indefinite strike. (NAN)
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