AdminJan 23, 20181 min readLassa fever: Anambra warns against eating exposed foodAnambra State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joe Akabuike has warned residents of the state against eating exposed food items. The...
AdminJan 22, 20181 min readLassa fever outbreak : Ondo govt confirms death of five persons, 24 others in critical conditionThe Ondo State government has confirmed the death of five persons, with twenty four others in critical condition from the outbreak of...
AdminJan 22, 20181 min readWHO donates 853 motorcycles to Nigerian govt for disease surveillanceThe World Health Organisation, WHO, on Monday donated 853 motorcycles to the Nigerian government to strengthen diseases surveillance...
AdminJan 22, 20181 min readLassa fever :Umahi warns health workers against dirty environmentThe governor of Ebonyi state, Chief David Umahi yesterday warned against dirty environment following the outbreak lassa fever in the...
AdminJan 21, 20182 min readOne to 4,000 doctor ratio unacceptable – MDCAN tells FGThe Medical and Dental consultants Association of Nigeria, MDCAN has said that the one doctor to 4,000 persons ratio in Nigeria is highly...
AdminJan 20, 20182 min readLassa Fever: NCDC tells health workers what to do while handling patientsThe Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has urged health workers across the country to strictly adhere to standard Infection,...
AdminJan 20, 20181 min readLassa Fever hits Kogi again; one killed, medical doctor infectedA fresh case of Lassa Fever has been recorded in Lokoja, Kogi State. This followed the death of a child in the early hours of Friday. The...
AdminJan 20, 20181 min readPolice, military, prostitutes, homosexuals prone to contacting HIV – Nigerian govtNigerian Government’s agency monitoring the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, National Agency for the Control of AIDS, has disclosed that the...
AdminJan 20, 20181 min readNIPRD develops herbal drugs for Ebola treatmentThe National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD), said it has successfully researched and developed six...
AdminJan 19, 20181 min readAkwa Ibom sacks doctor for allegedly stealing bedsA former Commissioner for Transport in Bayelsa, Marie Ebikake kidnapped by gunmen has regained her freedom. She was freed at about 3 a.m....
AdminJan 18, 20181 min readLassa fever: Death toll rises to 4 in EbonyiThe death toll of victims of Lassa fever in Ebonyi State has risen to four, while over 139 persons have been placed under surveillance in...
AdminJan 18, 20181 min readLassa fever: 3 suspected cases recorded in NasarawaDr Giyan Joshua-Ndom, the Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Nasarawa State, has said that the hospital is currently...
AdminJan 16, 20183 min readLassa fever: Ebonyi doctors blame death of colleagues on non functionality of virology centreDoctors in Ebonyi State on Tuesday protested along the major street of Abakaliki over the non functionality of the virology centre in the...
AdminJan 16, 20181 min readParacetamol abuse damages liver, Kidney – PSN chairmanPharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has warned against indiscriminate or misuse of Paracetamol, saying such practice damages the...
AdminJan 16, 20181 min readLassa Fever‎: Enugu NMA inaugurates 22-man committee to tackle outbreakThe Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) Enugu State chapter, on Monday inaugurated a 22-member committee on Lasa Fever following reported...
AdminJan 16, 20182 min readStriking doctors disclose details of meeting with Kogi govtKogi Government has appealed to striking medical doctors in the state to end their industrial action in the interest of patients and...
AdminJan 15, 20183 min readDoctors, nurses flee hospital over outbreak of lassa fever in EbonyiThere was a pandemonium at the Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, FETHA, at the early hours of Monday as doctors and nurses fled the...
AdminJan 14, 20182 min readPanic in Ebonyi as lassa fever kills 2 resident doctorsTwo resident doctors serving at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakiliki, FETHA, Ebonyi State have died of lassa fever. They both died on...
AdminJan 11, 20181 min readZamfara NMA president is deadThe President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Zamfara, Dr. Tijjani Sa’idu, is dead. Sa’idu died on Thurdsay as a result of...
AdminJan 11, 20181 min readJigawa targets 1.6m children for polio immunisation in 2018The Jigawa State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (JSPHCDA) says over 1.6 million children will be immunised against polio in the...
