The Federal Ministry of Health is strengthening the primary healthcare system to include diabetes management with foot care assessment and referral into the existing health care service at the primary healthcare level. The National Desk […]
The national Vice President of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), Comrade Onuh Edoka, has appealed to the kogi state government to implement the State Primary Healthcare law in order to revolutionise the […]
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria, (IMN), has said that their leader, Ibrahim Elzakzaky did not reject treatment in India, alleging that the federal government had planned to kill their leader using its international connections. In […]
Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria(IMN), otherwise known as Shi’ites, Mallam Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, Wednesday said the condition at the Indian hospital was worse than what he experienced in Nigeria. The Shi’ite leader said the […]
Ebonyi state government Monday said it would embark on mass immunization against yellow fever outbreak for residents between the ages of 9 months to 44 years, while those above the ages would get immunization booster […]
A group of doctors from seven countries – Pakistan, India, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq has written a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari pointing to Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky’s physical conditions, and asking the Nigerian […]
The leader of the Shiite movement in Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenat are currently at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. Blueprint gathered that the duo would leave Nigeria Monday for India, where […]
The Anambra State Indigenes Association in United States of America (ASA-USA), an NGO, has offered free medical services to about 8000 people from the state from across six local government areas According to the group’s […]
About 16 deaths have been reported in Ndungele community, Izzi local government area of Ebonyi state, following an outbreak of yellow fever . This report was made known to journalists in Abakaliki Friday, by the […]
The Federal Government has reiterated its commitment to the fight against cancer and other killer diseases in the country even as President Muhammadu Buhari stated this Thursday, in a message at the groundbreaking ceremony and […]
The Onyebuchi Chris Ifediora (OCI) Foundation, a charity organisation, has solicited the collaboration of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka in the fight against breast and cervical cancers in Anambra state. The Foundation’s Legal Adviser, Mr […]
The Executive Director of Project PINK BLUE, Runcie Chidebe has raised alarm that there is no single working radiotherapy cancer treatment machine in the whole of South-South of Nigeria. He said if the issue of […]
Nigeria has been ranked second among countries practicing open defecation globally, says the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF). Dr Geoffrey Njoku, Communication Specialist, UNICEF made this known at a Two-Day Media Dialogue in Calabar on […]
World Health Organisation (WHO), Spanish Government and the federal government of Nigeria have entered partnership to ensure stability of mental health among the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the North-east region of the country. Reports […]
A 44-year-old middle-level worker of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Mr. Ephraim Anjembe Terkula, who has been diagnosed with liver disease, needs N30 million to get medical treatment at […]
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State has disclosed that the state has not recorded outbreak of polio disease for 60 months. Ganduje made the disclosure Monday during the flag-off ceremony of August 2019 National […]
At last, the FCT health services secretariat has decided to take service delivery beyond mere rhetoric as it has tasked its medical personnel on service delivery social compact that SERVICOM is noted for. Writes ABDULLAHI […]
Hope has risen for prostate cancer patients as over 10 persons have benefited from new discoveries and tested ‘Brachytherapy (implant) treatment for the ailment. A medical consultant and radiation oncologist, Dr. Oludare Folajimi Adeyemi, disclosed […]
Lagos state Governor Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, will on Friday flag-off a free healthcare programme targeted at combating organ impairment and life-threatening ailments among children. The initiative falls within the pillar in the Governor’s vision to […]
Gombe State has recorded 12 deaths while 1, 732 other children have been admitted across the state for severe cases of malnutrition between January and March 2019 as against the 99 deaths and 13, 594 […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has commended efforts made by the Federal Government through the Nigeria Centre of Disease Control (NCDC) to prepare the country for possible Ebola outbreak and other disease epidemics.Director General of […]
FIFA on Wednesday banned the former head of the Liberian Football Association from football for 10 years over corruption, including misuse of funds intended for an Ebola awareness campaign. Musa Hassan Bility, an executive committee […]
The Nigerian Senate has directed the Nigeria Center for Disease Control and National Primary Healthcare Development Agency to take measures to address the outbreak of measles in Wusar, Igabi LGA of Kaduna state. Measles broke […]
A US based clinical dietician, Adekemi Adejare, has identified nutrition as solution to diabetes, stating that dietary factors are vital in the management and prevention of type II diabetes. Adejare, who is part of the South […]
The National Eye Centre in Kaduna is one of the institutions that walks it’s talk as ABDULRAHEEM AODU writes about its exploits in recent times. The human eyes are part of the most vital human […]
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