The Nigerian Cancer Society (NCS) has called on the federal and state governments to urgently improve the welfare of healthcare workers to curb the growing migration of skilled professionals abroad. In a statement issued to commemorate the 2026 Workers’ Day celebration, the Society warned that the increasing wave of emigration, popularly known...
Gunmen At least six health workers were abducted in the early hours of today when suspected gunmen attacked a Primary Healthcare Centre in Akure, Ondo State. The assailants reportedly stormed the facility in the Oke Ijebu area of the state capital at about 2:00 a.m., catching medical personnel and patients unprepared, reports The Nation. Eyewi...
•Lassa fever The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says six healthcare workers were infected with Lassa fever in one week, raising fresh concerns about occupational exposure among frontline health personnel. The NCDC disclosed this today in its Lassa Fever Situation Report for Epidemiological Week 9, covering Feb. 23 to ...
•Lassa fever The Benue State government has confirmed the death of 10 health workers following an outbreak of Lassa fever, with 45 cases testing positive out of 250 suspected infections recorded across the state. The State Epidemiologist, Dr Msuega Asema, disclosed this yesterday during an assessment visit by the Commissioner for Health and Hu...
•Lassa fever As Nigeria moves deeper into its annual Lassa fever season, an unsettling pattern has emerged: the virus is increasingly infecting the very people tasked with containing it. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), more than 15 healthcare workers across multiple states had contracted Lassa fever as of Epidemiolo...
•Lassa fever The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention, NCDC, today in an advisory to healthcare workers called for a heightened index of suspicion and strict compliance with Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) measures following a disturbing rise in Lassa fever infections among medical personnel. In a p...
•Health workers protest The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) has suspended its nationwide strike, 84 days after the industrial action began. This was announced in a communique issued by the union yesterday after its expanded National Executive Council (NEC) emergency meeting held in Abuja. According to the communique, the meeting was conven...
•Lassa Fever The Benue State Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Paul Ogwuche, has confirmed that four healthcare professionals are among those affected in the recent Lassa Fever outbreak in the state. Dr. Ogwuche disclosed that the affected health workers included three nurses and one community health worker, all of whom were acti...
•Health workers protest The ongoing strike by the Joint Health Sector Unions has entered the third month, crippling activities in government-owned hospitals across Nigeria, leaving patients stranded and forcing many to seek essential services outside public health facilities. Now in its third month, the industrial action has grounded critical ...
•Health workers protest Patients across public hospitals in the Federal Capital Territory and other parts of the country have decried the severe hardship caused by the ongoing strike by the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and the Assembly of Health Care Professional Associations, which began amid ongoing industrial action by resident docto...
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