Category: Health

As the rainy season begins, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has identified 83 local government areas as “hotspots” for cholera in the country. The agency says three states,…

The World Health Organisation has revealed that about 850,690 people in the country are at risk of mercury poisoning. A statement from the organisation said that in at least 12…

The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has uncovered an illegal factory that produces and circulates fake alcoholic beverages in Akwa Ibom State. NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Moji…

Resident doctors of Anambra State-owned Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital have rejected the new minimum wage offer presented to them by the state governor, Willie Obiano. The doctors have…

What I have tried to do by writing about Sickle cell is to encourage, inspire and give pointers to people with loved ones who have the disease.  I hope you…

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,…