Category: Health

Private doctors to honour Jonathan, Fayemi, Kanu Nwankwo, others to mark centenary anniversary

    The Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria (AGPMPN) has said it will honour some distinguished Nigerians who have contributed...

Health insurance will check maternal, infant mortality – Okowa

Delta Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that health insurance for children, women and the vulnerable was a sure way of checking maternal and infant mortality...

PDP

London Education Summit is cover up for Buhari’s failure-PDP

….Says ,You’re in London for medicals after wrecking Nigeria’s health system   The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused President Muhammadu Buhari...

354 million people live with Hepatitis B&C worldwide -WHO

….Urges better prevention through testing   Every 30 seconds, one person in the world dies of a disease caused by hepatitis. The United Nations has planned to...

Buhari

Buhari off to London for Education Summit, medical checkup

President, Muhammadu Buhari is expected to travel out of the country to the United Kingdom today to attend the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership...

Monkeypox: NCDC registers 59 suspected cases,15 confirmed

    The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 59 suspected cases of Monkeypox with 15 confirmed, its Director-General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu,...

Major causes of kidney failure-Expert

      Dr Adebowale Adewunmi, a Consultant Physician and Nephrologist at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, on Monday said that ageing...

COVID-19:No local herbal medicine found yet – NAFDAC

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has explained the non- approval of any herbal medicine for the treatment of COVID-19, saying...

COVID-19 third wave : FG puts Lagos, Oyo Kaduna, Kano,FCT,  two others , on red alert

  The Federal Government has put six states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on red alert as part of the preventive measures against a third wave of...

Stunning: 34 students and five staff of UNILAG infected with new Covid-19 virus.

A stunning 34 students with five members of staff of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), were Thursday confirmed to have been infected with Coronavirus disease. The...