Medical doctors in Abia on Friday suspended their six months old industrial action to enable the present administration offset the backlog of unpaid salaries. Dr Isaiah Abali, the Chairman of the Abia Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), announced the suspension at a news briefing in Umuahia. In...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has directed the Ministry of Health to investigate and fish out medical staff on duty for allegedly rejecting victims of accidents rushed to Umaru Shehu Ultra Modern Hospital in Maiduguri. Zulum gave the directive on Thursday at the Accident...
Prof. Isaac Adewole, a former Minister of Health, Nigeria, says many people are unaware that contact bleeding especially during bleeding or just after sexual intercourse can be early sign of cervical cancer. Adewole, Co-Founder, African Cancer Coalition, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Thursday in ...
World Health Organization (WHO) says it appreciates a new funding commitment by United Kingdom’s Department of Health and Social Care to support Nigeria in strengthening her health workforce. The grant amounting to £2 million (about (N1,2 billion) will cover two years period to support Nigeria to optimise the performance,...
Health workers’ union under the umbrella of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) has suspended its 12-day-old strike. Mr Obinna Ogbonna, JOHESU National Vice President said this on Monday to newsmen. Ogbonna said the strike had been suspended due to the progress made during the engagement with President Bola Tinubu....
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), has said that the country needs a peacetime health system to be better prepared for the next pandemic. The Director-General of the NCDC, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, said this on Monday in Abuja, at the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN)...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Goal Prime Organization Nigeria in collaboration with the Nigerian Humanitarian Fund (NHF) have launched the second season of Lafiyarmu Jarinmu scheduled from May 2023 to November 2023. The programme which is being aired on Al-Ansar FM Radio 96.1 on a hour-long live sessions broadcast...
BY DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has restated that his administration will revive and restore public confidence in the health sector in Nigeria. The President made the commitment on Monday in his office during an audience with leaders of Joint Health Sector Union, an affiliate of the...
UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has appointed Nigerian Dr Akinwumi Adesina and 21 other leaders to spearhead the fight against malnutrition in all its forms as members of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Lead Group. Adesina, who is currently the President of African Development Bank was appointed together...
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) says it vaccinated 30 million children in Nigeria in the last five years. The Communication Specialist, Mr Geoffrey Njoku, made the assertion on Monday in Kano during a two-day media dialogue. The dialogue was on UNICEF’s new country programme 2023-2027 and the status...
Dr Shukura Okesina, a Consultant Obstetrician and Surgeon at the Aishah Buhari Mother and Child Hospital, Eiyekonrin, Kwara, has submitted that Nigeria records 12,000 new cases of Obstetrics Fistula yearly. Okesina stated this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of the commemoration of...
No woman should lose her life to cervical cancer when there are tools to prevent, make early diagnoses and treat it, Global Health Leaders and advocates have said. This is as a new research on the efficacy of a one-dose HPV vaccine regimen and progress toward elimination in several...
Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa has described as a rare feat the open heart surgeries which the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Keffi, Nasarawa, had on 14 indigent pediatric patients suffering from different heart ailments. Sule, in his remarks on Monday after a tour of the operation theatre and the...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) say 43 countries, including Nigeria, now face outbreaks as increasing numbers of cholera cases are being reported. They said the outcome for patients was worse than 10 years ago. The UN agencies, in a statement on Friday, said that...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, says in Africa close to 40% of adults aged 30-79 years are hypertensive and only a quarter of these are taking medications. Dr. Moeti added that Optimal Blood Pressure Control is only...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigerian Hypertension Society has tasked the general public on the need for regular medical check-up as part of measures to reduce the risk of complications from hypertension. This is contained in a statement issued in Ilorin on Tuesday and co-signed by the society’s...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday declared that the multi-country outbreak of the mpox virus, which began around a year ago was no longer a public health emergency of international concern. WHO Director General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, said this while speaking to journalists in Geneva, a day after the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – World Health Organization (WHO) has organized a 5-day training workshop on Emergency Coordination/Preparedness Response for 98 public health emergency personnel drawn from the 27 LGAs, development partners and public health organizations in Borno State. The Borno State Commissioner for Health, Profeasor Mohammed Alhaji Arab,...
A baby has been born using three people’s DNA for the first time in Britain. Most of the child’s DNA came from their two parents but about 0.1 per cent was from a third person, another woman. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) said “less than five” babies...
World Health Organisation (WHO) says one pregnant woman or newborn dies every seven seconds as global progress in reducing deaths of pregnant women, mothers and babies, has flatlined for eight years. WHO, in a new report published on Tuesday, attributed the increase in maternal and newborn deaths to decreasing...