Medical

The Cross River State Primary Healthcare and Development Agency has canvassed a six-month maternity leave for nursing mothers in service. State Nutrition Officer, Lady Regina Adie, who made the call at a media roundtable on promotion of optimal Infant and ...

The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has endorsed the proposed Tiered Accreditation System (TAS), saying if well implemented, it will not only bring greater control in the pharmaceutical space but also ensure professionalism in the industry. Earlier, the Association of ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has given reasons why Nigeria may not be able to stop Lassa fever (LF), Monkeypox and cholera outbreaks, even as it confirmed one death and 11 cases of Lassa fever in Edo, Ondo ...

Head, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu State, Dr. James Akpeh, has said that failure to prosecute medical quacks fuels the dangerous practice throughout the country. Speaking on ‘The Menace of Quackery and the Contemporary Medical ...

The Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) has alleged that the Federal Government was frustrating the emergency treatment of its leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, at Medanta Hospital, New Delhi, India. The movement’s Head of Media and Publicity, ...

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has put operators on red alert over further spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Africa. In a letter to the airlines, the apex regulatory body urged regional and international carriers to exercise ...

Women and Children Health Empowerment Foundation (WACHEF) has embarked on free hepatitis test for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Taraba State. This is in its efforts to contribute to the elimination of Viral Hepatitis in the world by the year ...

Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenat, have travelled to India for medical attention in the company of Kaduna State government officials, security personnel and members of the sect. IMN spokesman, Ibrahim ...

President Muhammadu Buhari and his predecessors in office, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), have canvassed concerted action against the spread of cancer in the country. They spoke at the launch of the Henry Seriake ...

Medical experts have said that until Nigeria has a functional National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), it will not attain the Sustainable Development Goals target of achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. They lamented that the UHC, as stated by ...