AdminMay 24, 20181 min readJOHESU strike: Private medical practitioners beg health workers to end actionPresident of the Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria, AGPMPN, Iyke Odo, has called on the striking...
AdminMay 24, 20181 min read3 Ebola patients escape quarantine in Congo, 2 found deadThree patients infected with the deadly Ebola virus escaped from a hospital holding them in a quarantine station in Mbandaka, Congo. Two...
AdminMay 23, 20182 min readJOHESU strike: Hold Nigerian govt, Health Minister responsible for death of patients – WorkersThe Joint Health Sector Union, JOHESU, has asked Nigerians to hold the Federal Government, particularly, the Minister of Health, Prof...
AdminMay 23, 20181 min readReps seek N2million fine, two-year jail term for abuse of tramadol, codeineThe House of Representatives has proposed a fine of N2million and a two-year jail term for organisations that will go against the ban on...
AdminMay 22, 20181 min readSuspected Cholera outbreak kills 12 people in AdamawaA suspected cholera outbreak has claimed twelve lives in Mubi North and Mubi South Local Government Areas of Adamawa. Dr. Bwalki Dilli,...
AdminMay 22, 20182 min readJOHESU strike: Your letter is blackmail – Minister tells HIV/AIDS patientsThe Federal Government on Tuesday described the petition written by the Civil Society for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, CISHAN and Network of...
AdminMay 22, 20181 min readGhana speaks on reports of Ebola outbreakThe Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Monday refuted reports of an outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country. The denial...
AdminMay 21, 20182 min read2018 budget: Why NASS increased funding for Primary Healthcare – Senator TejuosoSenator Lanre Tejuoso, Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, has revealed why the National Assembly, included funding for the Basic...
AdminMay 21, 20181 min readWhat we are doing to stop Ebola – NCDCThe Federal Government has strengthened the capacity of the Nigeria Centre to Disease Control, NCDC, to prevent a possible outbreak of...
AdminMay 21, 20182 min readJOHESU strike: People living with HIV/AIDS, others threaten Buhari’s ministersPeople living with HIV/AIDS, and 11 other groups weekend in Abuja, petitioned the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole and his Labour and...
AdminMay 20, 20182 min readWhy Nigerian food, soups are unhealthy – CardiologistKunle Iyanda, a cardiologist at Wuse General Hospital, Abuja, has described Nigerian diets as unhealthy. Mr Iyanda told the News Agency...
AdminMay 20, 20182 min readEbola: Lagos bans transportation of corpses from DR Congo, releases phone numbersLagos State Government has placed embargo placed on transportation of corpses from DRC as part of measures to prevent the spread of the...
AdminMay 18, 20182 min readJOHESU strike: NMA reveals what FG must do to forestall health sector unrestThe Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, on Friday called on the Federal Government to implement recommendations of the Yayale Ahmed-led...
AdminMay 16, 20182 min readCauses of infertility in men revealedAn Abuja-based Consultant Gynaecologist, Dr Ibrahim Wada, says 20 per cent cases of infertility are found in men. Wada said this on...
AdminMay 16, 20181 min readDelta Assembly committee, Health commissioner In cold war over BillThe Health Committee of the Delta State House of Assembly and the State Commissioner for Health, , are currently embroiled in cold war...
AdminMay 16, 20181 min readDermatologist warns against patronising mobile barbersA Dermatologist, Dr Ayopo Adeyemi, on Tuesday warned Nigerians against patronising mobile barbers in order to avoid contacting some blood...
AdminMay 15, 20181 min readJOHESU strike: Tinubu, others beg health workers to end strikeThe Senate, on Tuesday, pleaded with the Joint Health Sector Union, JOHESU, to end the over three-weeks strike it is still engaged in. It...
AdminMay 15, 20182 min readJOHESU strike: Health workers accuse Nigerian doctors, health ministry of sabotage, insincerityThe National Chairman of the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, Biobebelemoye Josiah, has cried out over purported efforts by Nigerian...
AdminMay 14, 20182 min readNurses, midwives oppose proposed privatisation of health servicesThe National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, Monday, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the proposed...
AdminMay 14, 20181 min readCodeine: Emzor Pharmaceuticals breaks silence, speaks on shutdownEmzor Pharmaceuticals Industrial Limited, one of the companies implicated in the illegal manufacture and distribution of...
