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FG Launches Strategic Roadmap for Action to Accelerate Reduction of Maternal & Neo-Natal Mortality
Despite all efforts by governments towards the reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality, women and children die endlessly. This concern made the Federal Ministry of health engage other stakeholders to develop a strategic roadmap to be a springboard to accelerate reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality. ...
Red Cross Calls for Inclusive Response to Emergencies
Nigerians have been called upon to get involved in rapid response to emergencies to save lives and property, rather...
16/Sep/2019
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Young Pharmacists Commit to Fight against Drug Abuse
Lagos State Coordinator, Young Pharmacists Group of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Funmbi Okoya, has said with cannabis use amongst...
16/Sep/2019
Experts Insist on IT Solutions in Nigeria’s Health Sector
Managing Director, Calm Global Information Technology Limited, Mr. Gideon Iranloye, has said that adopting electronic health management in Nigeria’s...
16/Sep/2019
War Crime: World’s Health Professionals Call for an End to Syria Hospital Airstrikes
The World Health Professions Alliance condemns the continuing targeted attacks on hospitals in Idlib province, in Syria’s north-west. Urgent...
16/Sep/2019
Nigerians Spend $15bn on Medical Tourism – US Physician
A US physician, Stephen Hunt, of the University of Pennsylvania has said Nigerian leaders and other individuals spend $15bn...
16/Sep/2019
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Resident Doctors Demand Improved Healthcare Infrastructure in S/East
The Southeast Caucus of National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have called for improved healthcare infrastructure in the South-East...
16/Sep/2019
‘Anambra Locals Dying for Lack of Quality Health Care’
A CHIEFTAIN of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Johnbosco Onunkwo, an engineer, has decried the lack of quality...
16/Sep/2019
Yellow Fever Kills 23, Infects 169 in Bauchi, Spreads to Kano, Others
The ongoing yellow fever outbreak in Bauchi State has killed no fewer than 23 persons, infected 169 others and...
16/Sep/2019
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CMD of UITH Urges More Synergy for Healthcare
Chief Medical Director of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Prof. Abdullah Yussuf, has canvassed more public/private synergy for...
16/Sep/2019
S’south Resident Doctors Lament Poor Working Conditions in Teaching Hospitals
TSouth caucus of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) yesterday lamented the poor welfare status of resident doctors...
16/Sep/2019
Nigerians Tasked on Mental Health, Action to Curb Rising Suicides
Suicide is real and no longer stranger than fiction. About five reported cases occurred in the country in the...
16/Sep/2019
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NPHCDA Appeals to States, LGs to Take Action to End Polio by March 2020
The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), has appealed to state and local governments to invest more on polio...
14/Sep/2019
Family, Society Can Combat Suicide – LUTH Boss
The Chief Medical Director of Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Prof Chris Bode, has called on families to return...
13/Sep/2019
UI College of Medicine Ranks 4th in Africa
Prof Olubunmi Olapade-Olaopa, the Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, says the 71-year-old medical college has...
13/Sep/2019
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Borno, WHO Move to Halt Spread of Diseases in Border Areas
WHO, in its latest report on disease surveillance in Borno State, said it had engaged 1,180 community-based infromants to...
13/Sep/2019
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OAUTH to Tackle Maternal Mortality with N100m Equipment
Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile Ife, on Thursday received medical equipment worth over N100m. The donation, according to...
13/Sep/2019
Health Minister, Delta Governor Say Rising Rates of Maternal, Infant Mortality Unacceptable
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, and Delta Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Thursday decried the “rising and unprecedented”...
13/Sep/2019
Why Yellow, Lassa Fevers Outbreaks Persist
No fewer than seven Nigerians have lost their lives to suspected yellow fever contracted after visiting the Yankari Game...
13/Sep/2019
NSIA-LUTH Cancer Centre Steps Up Manpower Training
The multi-billion NSIA-LUTH Cancer Centre has embarked on some proactive measures to guarantee the sustainability of the facility. This...
13/Sep/2019
What Drug Security Means
Last year, at the annual national conference of the Association of Industrial Pharmacists, in Ilorin, Kwara State, NAFDAC Director-General...
13/Sep/2019
ICN Joint Webinar Highlights Importance of Data to the Development of and Investment in the Global Nursing Workforce
Hundreds of nurses from around the world have attended an online discussion about the State of the World’s Nursing...
12/Sep/2019
LASUTH Cardiologist, Team Record Another Medical Feat
A medical team comprising of an Interventional Cardiologist and other medical doctors recently carried out a lifesaving surgery by...
12/Sep/2019
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NAFDAC Integrates Electronic Licensing for Import Transactions
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has completed its integration of electronic licenses for...
12/Sep/2019
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Nurses Decry Poor State of Hospital Facilities in FCT
The Chairman of the National Association of Nurses and Midwives, (NANNM), Comrade Deborah Yusufu, has lamented the poor state...
12/Sep/2019
Lagos and its Stagnant Health Insurance Scheme
In a highly celebrated ceremony last December, the Lagos State government launched what was supposed to be the biggest...
12/Sep/2019
NAFDAC, GS1 to Co-Host African Healthcare Conference
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and GS1 will co-host the second African Healthcare...
12/Sep/2019
Govt Tackles Spread of Monkey Pox, Lassa fever, others
The Federal Government has promised to tackle the incessant outbreak of infectious diseases in the country. ...
12/Sep/2019
‘Mental Disorder Accounts For High Suicide Rate’
A Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Kafayat Ogunsola, has said mental disorder accounts for 90 per cent of suicide cases in...
12/Sep/2019
Empowering Pharmacists to Check Drug Misuse, Abuse in Nigeria
Worried by the growing incidence of drug abuse and misuse, pharmacists under the aegis of the Pharmaceutical Society of...
12/Sep/2019
Internet Pharmacy Will Worsen Indiscriminate Access to Medicines, ACPN Warns
The Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) has warned that promotion of Internet pharmacy will worsen the increasing...
12/Sep/2019
Our Doctors Not On Strike, Says IMSUTH
Management of Imo State University Teaching Hospital (IMSUTH), Orlu, has said that doctors in the hospital were not on...
12/Sep/2019
Nigeria, Niger Begin Surveillance against Polio
North East Coordinator of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Fadinding Manneh has said that experts from Nigeria and Niger...
12/Sep/2019
Nursing and Midwifery Council UK Announces Exciting Changes to Help Overseas Nursing Applicants
Nurses, midwives and nursing associates applying to join the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register from overseas are set...
12/Sep/2019
NAFDAC Advises Traditional Medical Practitioners to Register Products
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration Control (NAFDAC) in Gombe on Tuesday called on traditional medical practitioners...
11/Sep/2019
Invest in African Health Sector - Prof. Onuoha
Prof. Jonah Onuoha has called on African leaders to provide the needed infrastructure in the health sector in order...
11/Sep/2019
NPMCN Graduates 204 in Family Medicine, Anesthesia
The National Post Graduate Medical College of Nigeria, NPMCN, recently graduated 204 diplomates in family medicine and anaesthesia even...
11/Sep/2019
OOUTH Doctors Call Off Eight-Day Strike
Doctors under the aegis of the Association of Resident Doctors in Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State,...
11/Sep/2019
Concerted Effort Required to End Cancer – Sanwo-Olu, Convener
The wife of the Governor of Lagos State, Mrs Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, has called for a concerted effort toward the...
11/Sep/2019
Researchers Say Malaria Can Be Eradicated By 2050
A team of researchers, in a new report, have said that the world could be free of malaria by...
11/Sep/2019
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Ophthalmologists Offer Free Cataract Surgeries to Cameroonian Refugees
No fewer than 200 Cameroonian refugees at the settlement camp in Ogoja Local Government Area of Cross River State...
11/Sep/2019
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WHO Advises Countries on Prevention of Suicide
The World Health Organisation has advised countries to include suicide prevention strategies in their national health and education programmes....
11/Sep/2019
Focus More On Health Sector, Stakeholders Tell Sanwo-Olu
Stakeholders in the health sector have urged the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos to focus more on the health...
11/Sep/2019
Stigmatisation Prevents Data Accuracy on Suicide Rate – Psychiatrist
A Professor of Psychiatry, at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Oye Gureje, has said the stigmatisation and...
11/Sep/2019
Kano Distributes 8.4m Treated Nets
The Kano State Government says it will commence free distribution of 8.4 million insecticidal nets on Wednesday (today) to...
11/Sep/2019
FG Distributes 10,000 Kits, Drugs in Kwara
The Federal Government has distributed over 10,000 delivery kits and drugs in Kwara for maternal and neo-natal child health...
11/Sep/2019
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