Health Emergency Initiative (HEI) has achieved a significant milestone with the Ministry of Education’s five-year approval to train secondary school students in Lagos State in emergency response and prehospital care. This landmark decision follows the success of a one-year pilot programme, during which HEI demonstrated the transformative impact of equipping students with life-saving first responder […]
Category Archives: Press
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Dec
Dec
Breaking News: TotalEnergies E&P Partners with Health Emergency Initiative (HEI) to Revolutionize Health Education in Nigeria We are beyond excited to announce that, by GOD’S grace, TotalEnergies E&P, a global leader in the energy industry, has chosen Health Emergency Initiative (HEI) as a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Partner! Through this groundbreaking partnership, TotalEnergies will fund […]
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Feb
Feb
Antenatal in maternal healthcare A woman lost one of her twins, and also had to battle for her own life after giving herself over to traditional birth attendants- people who may be ‘experienced’ but yet do not have the necessary skilled set. What an irony! There have been so many needless deaths stemming from people’s […]
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Jan
Jan
Happy New Year!!! Looking back at the past year, Health Emergency Initiative (HEI) is thankful for every impactful stride and milestone made and we do not take for granted the gesture of service and love that everyone who walked with HEI has contributed to fulfilling and expanding HEI’s lifesaving frontiers.Here are some of HEI’s highlights […]
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Oct
Oct
How Sterling Bank and HEI are saving lives of accident victims. Many citizens are dying daily on Nigerian roads due to their poor state and sometimes the recklessness of drivers. Some have also died or become permanently scarred due to lack of immediate medical assistance and financial resources for treatment. In a bid to change […]
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Oct
Oct
Sepsis remains one of the most common diseases of the neonatal period and is still a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in Nigeria. As much as 40% of under-five deaths globally occur in the neonatal period, resulting in 3 million new-born deaths each year. The vast majority of these deaths usually occur in low-income […]
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Sep
Sep
A house was on fire, the fire service were alerted and were on their way to the emergency scene but a man in his vehicle for no justifiable reason blocked the way and hindered the fire service emergency responders from driving through. Eventually, the man obliged to give way for them to go through while […]
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Sep
Sep
What do you know about the code of humanity? Ajibade Babalade, a member of the Nigeria’s Super Eagles, who won a bronze medal at the 1992 Africa Cup of Nations in Senegalis is dead. The ex-Super Eagle who turned 48-years-old on the 29th of March died of cardiac arrest on Friday, September 4, 2020, in Ibadan, Oyo […]
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Aug
Aug
Emergency on Nigeria’s public health. Before Covid-19, Nigeria’s economy was already slippery, Covid-19 came upon us and the country is presently languishing in pre- Covid-19 and Covid-19 economic implications. The stats don’t lie, while Covid-19 is in a league of its own rampaging the world, our society is sadly being devoured by less threatening illnesses. […]
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Aug
Aug
Malnutrition in Children, an aftermath of Covid-19. The phrase ‘Country is hard’ is no joke and at HEI this is becoming more surreal to us as more cases of malnutrition-induced illnesses constantly calls for medical interventions. 80% of Health Emergency Initiative’s beneficiaries of recent medical interventions were children. Sadly, data collected from these medical interventions […]