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A Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos, Dr. Gregory Ohihoin, says sexual intercourse may help to initiate labour in pregnant women who have passed their estimated day of delivery.
Dr. Ohihoin said having sex at term helps to promote prostaglandins, which may help induce labour.
The prostaglandins are a unique group of pharmacologically active lipids that are widely distributed in mammalian tissues and body fluids.
Ohihoin spoke in reaction to a study published in the Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal, showing that sexual activity in the last week of pregnancy might be associated with the onset of labour.
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Faisal Shuaib, chief executive officer of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), says the federal government will invest in the procurement of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
The Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) had said Nigeria does not have enough freezers to store the 100,000 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine it is expecting.
The NPHCDA boss said arrangements are already in place to receive and store the vaccines at minus 70 degrees Celsius. He said the government will not spend much in procuring ultra-cool freezers, instead it would shift focus to Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine which can be stored with the country’s available freezers for routine immunisation vaccines.
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SADE OGUNTOLA reports that experts in the country are divided over COVID-19 vaccines and drugs as some believe that government should encourage local researchers to produce them locally, just as some local production of vaccines would take years to happen during which many more Nigerians would have died.
The COVID-19 pandemic has surely ravaged the whole world raking up unexpected mortality figures. Surprisingly, Africa has been largely spared, taking into consideration the number of fatalities recorded on the entire continent which is far lower than the reported figures in some individual countries in Europe.
However, while the vaccine has become available in Europe and America since December 2020 and inoculation has started in earnest, Nigeria, like many African countries, is still waiting for its first consignment of vaccines slated for late January, even as the death toll surges.
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