•Infertility The rising case of infertility among couples in Nigeria can be curtailed, if endowed Nigerians come to their aid financially to enhance their access to Advanced Fertility Care (AFC) like In vitro Fertilisation (IVF), a lecturer of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G), University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Prof. Lukman Omo...
The Benue State government has raised the alarm over the importation of live rats into the state. The government warned that individuals behind the trade are exposing the people of the state to Lassa fever outbreak. The State Epidemiologist, Dr. Terungwa Ngishe expressed the worry while speaking at a one-day Sensitisation Engagement on Antimic...
•Child vaccination Many children in Lagos State are at the risk of contracting a variant of polio virus as many parents are preventing their children from taking the vaccines rolled out against it by the state government. The polio virus variant is said to have crept into the state through infected people migrating from some […]
Kano State Government said as Nigeria records over two million in Nigeria living with HIV, Kano State has 46,732 persons currently receiving treatment. The Commissioner of Health, Dr Labaran Yusuf made this known while briefing journalists on the commemorations of the World AIDS Day with the theme: “Let communities lead” in collaboration with ...
•Doctors The federal government has directed universities to begin to admit more students into Medicine and Surgery as a strategy to address the shortage of manpower in the health sector occasioned by the relentless exodus of health workers abroad in what has been termed japa. The Vice Chancellor, Nile University, Prof. Dili Dogo, revealed the...
The Anambra State Aids Control Agency, ANSACA, has said no fewer than 98,960 people are living with HIV/AIDS in Anambra. Dr Afam Obidike, Commissioner for Health in Anambra, gave the statistics today in Awka. It was during a media briefing ahead of 2023 World AIDS Day, observed every December 1 since 1988, reports NAN. World […]
The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria has called on the federal government to probe alleged corrupt cases made against some of the Chief Executive Officers of the Federal Health Institutions. A communique of the 96th annual national conference of the PSN, titled, ‘Jewel City 2023,’ also raised alarm over the unregistered two million drug selle...
•FMC inspection by Reps panel The House of Representatives Committee on Health Institutions has vowed to take necessary steps to reverse the brain drain in the health sector and the medical tourism to reduce the outflow of Nigerians seeking medical care abroad and doctors travelling outside the country to seek greener pastures. The committee h...
•Prof Adeyemo The last is yet to be heard about the widespread criticism which has trailed the alleged flawed nomination process leading to the appointment of the current Chief Medical Director of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Prof. Wasiu Lanre Adeyemo. Following the rash of protests and petitions against the appointment, the pres...
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has confirmed the escape of an abducted resident doctor, Dr Orockarrah Orock attached to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu State. It was learnt that Orock attached to the Anasthesia Department of the UNTH was on Saturday night kidnapped within the hospital premises, wh...