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Don calls for improvement in health sector  


Nigeria may not join the rest of the world in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) come 2015 unless there are urgent intervention to improve its health indices, Dean, Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of Ibadan, Professor Gbemisola Oke has warned.

 Prof. Gbemisola Oke who gave the verdict at the 3rd annual scientific conference of the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, tagged “Oral Health and the Millennium Development Goals” also called for development of policies that will accord priority to Oral health in the country. . . .

Continuing, the University Don cautioned on the consumption of tobacco smoking in the crusade for improved Oral health, saying that tobacco smoking if not checked would continue to impact adversely to health, poverty, malnutrition and education, and declared that increase in tobacco smoking will continue to pose a direct threat to the MDGs unless something is done to stop it.

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