Category: Health

The Association of Resident Doctors of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital (COOUTH) Amaku Awka, in Anambra state on Monday began an indefinite strike over poor condition of service and…

About 567 people died of malaria related-diseases in Kano State last year, the Commissioner for Health, Kabiru Ibrahim Getso, has said. Addressing a press conference yesterday in commemoration with 2019…

Health experts have identified hand washing as a major preventive measure against the spread of viral diseases, especially in health institutions. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) launched the…

More than 90 people, including 65 children, are feared to have been infected with theHIV virus in Pakistan by a doctor using a contaminated syringe, officials disclosed today. “We have arrested…

  Twenty-six people died of Ebola in a single day in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, the highest daily toll since its outbreak nearly nine months ago,…

The Lagos State Government has warned residents of the state of the presence of poisonous ponmo (cow skin) in some markets in the state. The warning was contained in a…

By  Lukman Amusa In commemoration of the 2019 World Malaria Day, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for renewed political commitment to eliminate the disease. The International agency said…

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned healthcare providers to stop using some automatic ventilators because of the danger they pose to human health.…

Dr Victor Fayomi, a general practitioner with a private hospital in Gwagalada, has said that political goodwill and public-private partnership should be strengthened to end malaria for good. Fayomi made…

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has decried the high rate of foreign medical trips by Nigerians, calling for a total overhaul of the health sector to…