…As health stakeholders launch biorepository laboratory Abimbola Abatta The upgraded biorepository laboratory at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)’s Central Public Health Laboratory in Yaba, Lagos was commissioned on Thursday. Nigerian NewsDirect reports that with support from the U.S.…
The New England Journal of Medicine says in China, 35 people in two provinces have fallen ill with a newly detected virus that is transmitted from animals to humans. A team of scientists from China, Singapore and Australia reported in…
The Enugu State Government has commenced an aggressive two weeks campaign on the natural and vast benefits of exclusive breastfeeding to babies, the nursing mothers and households. The Executive Secretary of Enugu State Primary Health Care Development Agency (ENS-PHCDA), Dr George…
Bayelsa started the distribution of drugs and equipment to selected Primary Health Centres (PHCs) in the eight Local Government Areas of the state on Thursday. The distribution was made through the Office of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Senior Special Assistant…
The Kaduna State Ministry of Health has expressed concern over poor attendance of antenatal clinics by pregnant women in the state. The Director of Planning and Research, Reproductive, Maternal Newborn and Child Health (RMNCAH), Dr Sunday Joseph, expressed the government’s…
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says the Federal Government is targeting an increase of 50 per cent in the rate of exclusive breastfeeding before the 2025 World Health Assembly. He disclosed this during the Ministerial launch of the…
…Says no separate drugs for enrollees in hospitals BY OZO RAY, Awka The Anambra State Health Insurance Agency (ASHIA) has risen up to the urgent need to protect her numerous enrollees from the wiles of fraudulent healthcare providers who extort…
Stakeholders have been urged to digitise healthcare systems for Nigeria to meet its universal healthcare target. Co-Founder, Cranium Integrated Solutions Limited, Mr Kunle Adesida, made the call on the sidelines of ongoing 2022 Digital Health Summit in Abuja on Thursday.…
Kwara Commissioner for Health, Dr Raji Razaq, on Thursday urged Nigerians to go for hepatitis screening, describing the viral infection as a silent killer. Razaq said this while addressing journalists on the sidelines of a sensitisation walk organised to commemorate…
Nasarawa State Commissioner for Health, Pharmacist Ahmed Yahaya, on Thursday said the state government is set to treat about 124,000 persons of hepatitis disease in the state within five years. The state Commissioner who disclosed this at a press briefing…
