Category: Health

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…

Despite official data showing that Nigeria ‘gravely’ lacks an adequate number of doctors, a minister has claimed otherwise. The World Health Organisation (WHO) statistics, as of 2013, showed there were…

The world’s first malaria vaccine, RTS, S  pilot programme was launched in Malawi on Tuesday. This makes Malawi the first of three countries in Africa in which the RTS, S…

Investigations by our correspondents have revealed that public hospitals are battling with obsolete equipment in some hospitals while some medical facilities have none. Consequently, patients with cancer and terminal ailments…