Category: Health
Access Bank, GE Healthcare to offer healthcare providers cost-efficient, flexible financing.
As part of continued efforts to revamp Nigeria’s health sector, Access Bank has announced a partnership with GE Healthcare Systems to provide cost-efficient and...
Deworming exercise: 700, 000 children of school age to benefit in Ogun
Ogun State government has said that it has concluded plans to deworm over 700,000 children in its annual school-based deworming programme across 14 Local...
New survey finds millions of people affected by TB still diagnosed, treated with outdated tools
Data on 37 countries reveals widespread failure to follow latest international recommendations for policies on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment Geneva,...
Neimeth grows profit by 66.39% in 2020 despite 31.49% decline in Q4
Neimeth International Pharmaceuticals Plc, a manufacturer of and marketer of pharmaceuticals and animal health products has released its statement of profit or loss and...
World records 207, 500 measles death in 2019 – WHO
…Amid increases in cases to 869,770 Global measles deaths increased by 50 per cent from 2016 to 2019, claiming over 207,500 lives in 2019, WHO said in a statement...
COVID-19: Bill Gates gifts the world $70m for vaccine
Bill and Melinda Gates have pledged to donate an additional $70m to ensure that everyone around the world had access to the new COVID-19 vaccine. Pfizer and BioNTech had...
$28.5b needed to finance COVID-19 tools accelerator – WHO
The WHO says 28.5 billion dollars is urgently needed to finance the access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator to ensure equitable and worldwide access to...
UNICEF, WHO demand immediate action to avert Measles, Polio epidemics
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have called for immediate action to avert major measles...
Second COVID-19 outbreak imminent – Health Minister warns
• ..Governor Wike threatens to reintroduce restrictions Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has warned that a second wave of COVID-19 outbreak is imminent...
Help make govt hospitals in Imo functional, Uzodimma tells NMA
The Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodimma has appealed to medical doctors in the employ of the State Government to join hands with him to ensure that hospitals...
