Health

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Tuesday, urged Nigerians to shun sellers of artificial ripening fruits, vegetables and hawkers of counterfeit and expired drugs as they are unhealthy to the body.  The Director General, NAFDAC, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, gave the warning in Awka, the Anambra State capital, at the Southeast zone NAFDAC sensitisation workshop on Read More

In order to mitigate Nigeria’s rising cancer burden, the Federal Government through Ministry of Health and FCT Administration, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Medicaid Cancer Foundation, and City Cancer Challenge Foundation (C/Can) have signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), to address the challenge. The landmark agreement, which was signed in Abuja, makes the Nigeria’s capital part of a growing network of Read More

Six staff of the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, ISTH, Edo State, have been trained on metagenomic sequencing to strengthen the hospital’s capacity and treatment procedure with the aid of accurate analytical results, the acting Chief Medical Director of the hospital,  Professor Reuben Eifediyi, has said.  Metagenomics is the study of genetic material recovered directly from environmental or clinical samples by Read More

The United States government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), on Thursday, celebrated five years of the VectorLink project’s achievements in the fight against malaria in Nigeria. Blueprint reporrs that the five-year, $7.8 million President’s Malaria Initiative VectorLink project, implemented in close partnership with the government of Nigeria, provided technical expertise for surveillance of organisms that host malaria-causing Read More

The Special Adviser on Health to the President, Dr. Salma Ibrahim-Anas, Tuesday, disclosed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed that 10 percent of the country’s budgetary allocation be given to the health sector. Ibrahim-Anas, who spoke in Abuja at a one-day Gatefield Health Summit, said the president is still willing to increase the health sector budgetary allocation if properly Read More

The Nigeria Medical Association, Nasarawa state has commenced a five-day warning strike following the failure of government to improve on the welfare of its members. The state NMA chairman Mr. Peter Attah disclosed this, Wednesday, at a press conference in Lafia, Nasarawa state capital. He said the decision to embark on the five-day warning strike was reached at the association’s Read More

  The Oyo State Health Insurance Agency (OYSHIA) has expressed readiness to support and collaborate with the University College Hospital in the area of research. The Executive Secretary, Oyo State Health Insurance Agency, OYSHIA. Dr. Sola Akande made this known on Monday, when he received a delegation from University College Hospital’s Department of Health Policy and Management led by its Read More

The Abuja branch of the Association of Hospital and Administrative Pharmacists of Nigeria (AHAPN),  Monday, took its sensitisation campaign against drug abuse to the Community Staff Secondary School, Asokoro, Abuja, to familiarise the students with the dangers of drug abuse, as part of activities to mark this year’s International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Speaking at the event, Read More

Up to 21 indegenes from host communities of Seplat energy have regained their sights after undergoing surgeries through the company’s ‘eye can see’ programme held in Benin City, Edo State capital. The Director, External Affairs and Sustainability of the company, Mrs. Chioma Afe, disclosed that the exercise “is aimed at promoting healthy life and well being at all ages in Read More

In commemoration of the 2023 Menstrual Hygiene Day (MHD), the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), in partnership with Keffi Local Government Area (LGA), Nasarawa state, Wednesday, sensitised secondary school students in Keffi on end to shame and stigma on menstruation. The AHF also instituted a sanitary pad bank, in collaboration with Keffi LGA, Keffi Primary Healthcare Agency and Keffi Ministry of Read More

The provincial department of health, Wednesday, said 165 people have visited a local hospital in Hammanskraal with symptoms including diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting since last week. Lab tests have confirmed two dozen cases of cholera and 17 people have died, the department said. The infection was showing “a very high fatality rate,” said Health Ministry Director General, Sandile Buthelezi. South Read More

Nigerians may soon have a policy on management of kidney ailments including care for living organ donors as a deliberate attraction to encourage willing donors to come forward. This may give hope to kidney patients at a time when more people die from complications thrown up by kidney failure while many also die waiting for kidney transplantation as donors shy Read More