A public health physician, Dr Tomi Owopetu-Iken, has advised Nigerians to strictly observe the COVID-19 protocols as more highly transmissible variants emerged. Owopetu-Iken, A member of the Oyo State COVID-19 Emergency Operations Center (EOC), gave the advice in an interview …
Over 44,000 children below the age of five years have been immunised in Gabasawa Local Government Area of Kano for the January round of the Immunisation Plus Days. Alhaji Sani Dawaki, the Primary Health Care Coordinator in the area revealed…
Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, has promised to end the scourge of 20 Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) found in several countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Ghebreyesus, in a statement issued from WHO headquarters in Geneva,…
The Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) has called on the Federal Government to review the retirement age of health professionals from 60 to 65 years. Mr Biobelemonye Josiah, National President, MHWUN, made the call at the 9th…
Mr Ahmed Baba-Yahaya, Nasarawa State Commissioner for Health, says government had intensified the training of health workers to curtail the spread of Covid-19 in the state. The commissioner, who disclosed this on Thursday, in Lafia, at the opening of a…
A NGO, Results for Development (R4D), has appealed to Kaduna State Government to sustain the new Health Insurance Scheme towards boosting health care delivery to residents. The R4D country Director, Dr Uweju Hope, made the appeal during a presentation at…
A medical practitioner, Dr Bayo Ogunmola, has appeal to residents of Ido-Ekiti to desist from defecating in open places to prevent health hazards. Ogunrinde made the appeal in an interview with newsmen on Thursday in Ido-Ekiti in Ido-Osi Local Government…
Mrs Adebola Kolawole, the Chairman, Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS), Lagos State branch, has called on frontline health workers and others to strictly observe the COVID-19 protocols to avoid being infected. She made the call in an interview with newsmen…
The Ebonyi Animal-Mediated Rabies Control Programme (EBARAP) Committee says plans have been concluded for the launch of its rabies campaign. The organisation’s Chairman, Dr Nwenyi Okoro, told newsmen in Abakaliki on Thursday that the exercise would begin in February. Okoro…
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has declared that no vaccine would be brought to Nigeria unless certified safe and effective. The Executive Secretary of the agency, Dr Faisal Shuaib, made the assertion in at a national sensitisation…
