The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the world is currently facing a new outbreak of “unexplained acute hepatitis infections” affecting children. WHO Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus gave the warning on Thursday in his message to mark this year’s World Hepatitis Day, globally observed on July 28 annually....
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has for the first time issued concrete recommendations about sexual behaviour for those most at risk, in view of increasing monkey pox cases in many countries. According to WHO figures on Wednesday, some 98 per cent of the reported cases involved men who have...
The Director General, Nigeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Prof. Babatunde Salako, on Monday said it had discovered a new malaria vector called anopheles stephensi in northern Nigeria. Professor Salako who spoke with newsmen in Lagos during a birthday ceremony organised by his members of staff, said that it...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the monkeypox outbreak in more than 50 countries an “emergency of international concern.” “Although I am declaring a public health emergency of international concern, for the moment this is an outbreak that is concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday reconvened the Monkeypox Emergency Committee to assess the public health implications of the evolving multi-country outbreak, as global cases passed 14,000, with six countries reporting their first cases last week. The committee first met in June but decided against declaring it a...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The new Sweden’s project funding of N26 million (US$ 2.7 million) is to be implemented by UNICEF and partners to help improve access to safe water, sanitation systems and hygiene for 86,000 conflict-affected women and children in north-east Nigeria. The UNICEF Communication Officer, Ms...
Mr Ned Nwoko, a former lawmaker and philanthropist has stressed the need for greater public-private sector synergy including multilateral agencies in the quest to tackle malaria in Africa. Nwoke, founder of Malaria eradication in Africa programme, made the call an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday...
The Kano State Government says it has recorded no fewer than 189 cases of Cholera in 20 Local Government Areas this year. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Aminu Tsanyawa, confirmed the cases at a news conference in Kano on Tuesday. Tsanyawa said five deaths were recorded, while 184...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is making good and steady progress, doctors in charge of the vice president’s care at the Duchess International Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, say. Osinbajo had on July 16, had a successful surgery on his thigh bone at Duchess International Hospital. The Chief Executive Officer of the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The World Health Organization (WHO) has taken some proactive and preventive measures to support the Borno State Government in the control and management of monkey pox, malaria, cholera and COVID-19 in Maiduguri Metropolis Council, Here, Mafa and Konduga LGAs of the state. These measures...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has urged politicians in the country to emulate Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to end medical tourism. The National President of NBA, Dr Uche Ojinmah said this in a ‘Get-Well Wish’ statement on Monday in Abuja. He also commended...
Official data published by UN agencies on Friday shows the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccination rates in approximately 30 years, with 25 million infants missing out on lifesaving shots in 2021. The figures released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund UNICEF, show the percentage...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Africa is facing a growing risk of outbreaks caused by zoonotic pathogens, such as monkeypox virus which originated in animals, and then switched species and infected humans. There has been a 63 per cent increase in the number of zoonotic outbreaks in the...
The Society for Family Health (SFH) says early detection of HIV/AIDS will reduce infant, child and maternal mortality. Dr Omokhudu Idogho, Managing Director, SFH, said this at a dissemination meeting on the SFH Lafiyan Yara project, in Abuja. The SFH Lafiyan Yara project is funded by AIDSFONDS to implement...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 35 countries in five regions of the world have now reported more than 1,010 probable cases of unexplained severe acute hepatitis or liver inflammation in youngsters. According to a new update on Wednesday from the WHO, the number of the cases reported is...
Dr Deborah Bitrus-Oghoghorie, Consultant Grade 1, Federal Ministry of Health, Hospital Services, has said that Nigerians would began to access affordable surgical care. Bitrus-Oghoghorie disclosed this at the Federal Medical Centre, Ebute-Metta, Lagos, on Wednesday during an enlightenment session of medical personnel in the hospital. According to her, National...
Doctors at New York University (NYU) Langone Health, an academic medical centre have successfully transplanted two genetically engineered pig hearts into recently deceased people, the team announced on Wednesday. The surgeries, known as xenotransplants, were performed on June 16 and July 6 at NYU Langone, the team said in...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has assured Nigerians that the soon-to-be-inaugurated Reference Hospital, Okene, will end medical tourism in the state and Nigeria at large. A statement issued in Lokoja by Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Onogwu Muhammed, quoted Bello as stating this after inspecting the 300-bed...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The General Officer Commanding, (GOC), 8 Division, Nigerian Army, Major General Uwem Bassey on Tuesday flagged off free medical outreach in Sifawa village of Bodinga Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The GOC, who was represented by the Garrison Commander 8 Division, Brigadier General...
The Coca Cola company and its partner, Medshare, in collaboration with Federal Government, on Friday donated equipment worth N3 billion to Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano under the Safe Birth Initiative (SBI). The equipment and supplies were formally unveiled and handed over at a special event held at the...