The Kano State Government in collaboration with Al-Basar Foundation and Mamma Eye Specialist Hospital, Kano, has commenced free eye screening for 6,000 people in the state. The Executive Secretary Kano Primary Health Care Board, Dr Tijjani Hussain, made this known…
Cross River Government is set to deploy digital medical drones to areas of the state to supply drugs and other medical essentials. To this effect, the government is partnering with a drone delivery company, Zipline. Speaking on Monday during the…
Ekiti Government said, on Sunday, it had taken delivery of another batch of 40,000 AstraZeneca vaccines from the National Primary Health Care Development Agency. Dr Oyebanji Filani, Commissioner for Health and Human Services, in a statement in Ado-Ekiti said the…
The Director, FCT Primary Health Care Board, Dr Ruqayya Wamakko has identified partial child immunisation by mothers as a public health problem affecting successful children immunisation in Abuja. Wamakko made this remark in an interview on Wednesday in Abuja. She said…
More than 5,000 persons have been registered for financial grant under the Delta COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (Delta CARES) programme, Mrs Susan Omiete,of Growth and Operations Department, Bank of Industry, told journalists on Thursday in Asaba that the…
A professor of medicine, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Gregory Erhabor, on Wednesday said that asthma affects about 339 million people annually with over 500,000 hospitalisation and about 400,000 deaths across the globe. Erhabor, who is also President, Asthma and Chest…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has approved the Pfizer Biotech Vaccine for emergency use authorisation for COVID-19 in Nigeria. Its Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, made this known on Friday in a live/zoom media briefing…
“Defeating malaria is absolutely critical to ending poverty, improving the health of millions, and enabling future generations to reach their full potential.” This statement by Tedros Adhanom, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO), depicts the relevance of the fight against malaria, a…
Balogun Nurudeen Olaleye is the Chairman of the Alternative Medicine Board, Ogun state. In this interview with AYO FADIMU, he speaks on the steps being taken by the board to assist the alternative medicine practitioners to take advantage of advancement…
By Taofeek Lawal, Abuja No fewer than 44 Health Care providers in Abuja, are presently undergoing a six-week intensive training programme on Family Planning/Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives (FP/LARCs) in the Federal Capital Territory(FCT) School of Nursing/Midwifery, Gwagwalada. Declaring the training…
