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Nurse advises teachers, parents to inculcate personal hygiene habit in children

Nurse advises teachers, parents to inculcate personal hygiene habit in children
By Maureen Ojinaka
Hygiene
Enugu, Nov. 1, 2018 (NAN) Mrs Ruth Onyia, a retired Senior Nurse, has urged parents and teachers to inculcate personal hygiene habit in their children for healthy living.
Onyia, formally with the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu State, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Thursday.
She noted that lack of awareness on personal hygiene could lead to contamination of various diseases in human beings.
She explained that diarrhoea, dental and skin diseases, worm infestations are most commonly associated with poor personal hygiene, adding that one of the major problems faced by school children are infections.
The medical officer pointed out that infection and malnutrition form a vicious circle and retard children’s physical development as well as their academic performances.
“Repeated attacks of infections often compound the existing poor health of children, compromising children’s attendance and performance at school.
“However, majority of the childhood illnesses are preventable by promotion of hygienic practices among school children through proper health education by their parents and teachers,” she said.
She added that the origins of many illnesses of adulthood have their roots in the health behaviours of childhood and adolescents. (NAN)
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Edited by Ifeyinwa Okonkwo/Muhammad Suleiman Tola

Health

Conviction of British-based Nigerian nurse good omen against trafficking – NAPTIP

Conviction of British-based Nigerian nurse good omen against trafficking – NAPTIP
By Mustapha Sumaila
Conviction
Abuja, June 30, 2018 (NAN) The Director-General, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Ms Julie Okah-Donli, has described the conviction of a British-based Nigerian nurse, Ms Josephine Iyamu, as good omen to the fight against human trafficking.
The Head of Press and Public Relations of NAPTIP, Mrs Stella Nezan, quoted Okah-Donli’s reacting in a statement in Abuja.
The statement noted that Iyamu was convicted by the Birmingham Crown Court for human trafficking.
She quoted the NAPTIP boss saying that conviction is the beginning of the renewed determination by the agency to bring all foreign-based human traffickers to justice irrespective of their location around the world.
According to her, Okah–Donli in collaboration with other foreign partners and law enforcement agencies will continue to smoke out suspected human traffickers and make them to face justice just like their counterparts in Nigeria.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that operatives of NAPTIP and National Crimes Agency (NCA) had during a joint operation tagged “Operation REDROOT”, arrested Iyamu under the joint counter trafficking project called Joint Border Task Force (JBTF).
It said with the latest development, Iyamu had become the first person to be convicted under new modern slavery laws, after being found guilty of trafficking five Nigerian women to Germany to work as prostitutes.
She said that Iyamu was prosecuted under the Modern Slavery Act involving victims who had no connection to the UK but had been victimised by a British national.
“Jurors were told the 51-year-old Liberia-born British citizen forced the women to swear oaths to hand over money to her during `juju’ ceremonies.
“These included forcing women to eat chicken hearts, drink blood containing worms, and have powder rubbed into cuts.
“Iyamu, formerly of Bermondsey in London, then arranged for the women to be trafficked across the Mediterranean, with one being told to pay a bill of 37,000 Euro (about 32,700 dollars),” ,’’ the statement read in part. (NAN)
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Edited by Gregory Mmaduakolam/Muhammad Suleiman Tola