By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The World Health Organization (WHO) says diphtheria is a vaccine-preventable disease, urging Nigerians to ensure that their children are fully vaccinated against the disease with the prescribed three doses of the pentavalent vaccine. The WHO Emergency Manager in charge of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe...
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The Federal Government has received a 9.3 million Canadian dollars grant from the Global Initiative for Vaccine Equity (CanGIVE), to boost COVID-19 vaccine delivery and strengthen the broader health system in the country. The Canadian High Commissioner, Amb. Jamie Christoff, disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja, during the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has expressed his dismay over lack of electricity and other facilities at the General Hospital Gwoza. The governor could not hide his feelings when he paid a surprise visit to the hospital at midnight on Saturday. Zulum who...
By ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – A consultant and Professor of Paediatrics Neurology with the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital (UDUTH), Sokoto, Professor Ahmed Hamidu has decried that the health system in Nigeria is relatively weak, leading to some of the avoidable challenges confronting delivery. Professor Hamidu, who is a...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) cancer research agency on Friday classified the commonly used artificial sweetener aspartame as “possibly carcinogenic to human”. Although, another UN Committee reaffirmed that there was a safe daily level of consumption. The joint assessment from WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – World Health Organisation (WHO) has distributed 60 Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) kits components to six partnering Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) for the management of malnutrition cases in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states The WHO Emergency Manager in charge of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states,...
Abia State Government has declared the newly constructed and inaugurated Abia Multi-Specialist Hospital in Aba unfit for human use following structural defects, poor ventilation, missing or old, unfitted equipment. Abia Commissioner for Health, Dr Ngozi Okoronkwo, made this known on Wednesday while addressing newsmen during an inspection of hospitals...
The Federal Ministry of Health has launched the Malaria Modelling Programme to achieve zero malaria prevalence by 2025. Launching the programme on Monday in Abuja, Dr Perpetua Uhomoibhi, National Coordinator, National Malaria Elimination Programme in the ministry expressed the importance of eliminating malaria with data by 2025. The News...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), says its scientific analysis of Semovita content did not reveal any plastic material in it. The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, stated this in a statement issued to newsmen in Abuja on...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Primary Health Care Development Agency (BSPHCDA) has been awarded as one of the best agencies in terms of the management and provision of primary healthcare facilities in Nigeria. The agency was also awarded by Northern Governors Forum as the most prudent and...
Prof. Philip Kolo of the Department of Medicine, University of Ilorin, on Friday postulated that Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) affects more than 64 million people worldwide. Kolo said this in his paper presentation at the 236th Inaugural Lecture of Unilorin, entitled: “Power and The Failed Pump: Travails and Remedies...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – A total of 977, 950 children from Nasarawa State, are expected to benefit from Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine, popularly known as Fansidar, or Amalar, Maldox; and Amodiaquine drugs for prevention of malaria. Dr (Mrs) Janet Angbazo, Permanent Secretary (PS), Nasarawa State Ministry of Health, made the disclosure...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has alerted the public on the distribution and sale of unregistered and expired G-Man organic energy drink. Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, the Director-General of NAFDAC, made this known while briefing journalists on Thursday in Lagos. She said that some...
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), says about 61,000 children spread across the five South East States have not received any vaccination.unicwf Mrs Cristian Munduate, UNICEF Representative in Nigeria, gave the statistics at the ongoing First Quarterly Review Meeting of the South-East Zone Traditional Rulers’ Committee on...
Dr Salma Anas, the Special Adviser to the President on Health, has said that President Bola Tinubu administration’s healthcare reform agenda will be defined by making Universal Health Coverage a priority.. Anas said this on Wednesday in Abuja at a Health Policy Dialogue. The theme of the event was...
Gov. Ahmad Aliyu of Sokoto State, has disguised himself and visited the Sokoto Specialist Hospital, to ascertain the quality of services provided to residents of the state by the hospital. Malam Abubakar Bawa, the Press Secretary to the governor, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Sokoto. Bawa...
The National Director, Sickle Cell Foundation Nigeria (SCFN), Dr Annette Akinsete, has urged persons with Sickle Cell Disorder (SCD) to live meaningful lives because it is not “a death sentence”. She spoke during a sensitisation and awareness campaign organised by the Coalition of Sickle Cell NGOs under “The...
The Kogi chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), has decried the shortage of qualified medical doctors in secondary and tertiary health institutions and poor welfare package for doctors in the state. The association also decried the delay in the payment of monthly salaries of doctors of the state’s...
The Ekiti State chapter of the Association of Persons with Albinism, has decried the spate of skin cancer among its members, due to absence of proper treatment and care. Mr. Johnson Oniya, Chairman of the association in the state, said this while speaking with newsmen in Ado Ekiti on...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – United Nation Education Fund ,UNICEF has reaffirmed its commitment to end open defecation in Nigeria in 2025 in collaboration with public and private organisations, government and Non Governmental Organizations, media, and other stakeholders. The UNICEF Chief of Field Office, North-East Nigeria , Phuong T....