President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Anas Sabir as the Chief Medical Director of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto for an initial period of four years.

According to a statement signed by the Head, Public Affairs Unit, Buhari Abubakar Sokoto, the appointment was conveyed in a letter dated June 4, 2018, which was signed by the Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole.

The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) has appealed to the Federal Government to pay its members April and May salary in line with their agreement to suspend their strike.

Mr Achimugu Isaiah, the branch Chairman, Federal Medical Centre (FMC Keffi), Nasarawa State, made the call on Wednesday while fielding questions from the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) shortly after a congress meeting of the union in Keffi.

The Blood Safety Programme Manager, Institute of Human Virology, Nigerians (IHVN), Mr. Abdullahi Abubakar, says regular blood donation improves body fitness and lowers calories. Abubakar explained at a blood donation drive in Abuja on Tuesday to mark World Blood Donor Day that donating one pint of blood (450 ml) removes 650 calories from the donor’s body.

The Borno Government on Sunday commended the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for rehabilitating 166 healthcare centers across the state. Sule Mele, The Executive Director of Primary Health Care Management Board (PHCMB), made the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Maiduguri.

Male said that the centers were some of those vandalized by Boko Haram insurgents.

(Xinhua) A surgeon is preparing to select three women to undergo Britain’s first womb transplant later in the year, following permission granted to British medics to carry out the procedures.

The report says three women are among 50 infertile patients on a waiting list for the pioneering operation and they will be informed: “within a few weeks”.

Using two experimental anti-malarial vaccines, which work in different ways, can greatly reduce the number of malaria infections in animal studies. Experimental vaccines, which independently achieve 48 percent and 68 percent reductions in malaria cases, can achieve 91 percent reduction when combined. Presently, each vaccine is at a different stage of human trials, and there have not been efforts to combine them. However, a team led by Imperial College London has now tested the effect when using the two types of vaccine together.

Health Maintenance Organisation (HMO), Hygeia has called on stakeholders to create solutions to the issue of quality affordable and accessible healthcare in Nigeria

Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Hygeia, Obinna Abajue, said the purpose of the HMO is to help people achieve their dreams and that its fundamental rests on access to quality and affordable health care.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has expressed concerns about the abuse of prescription medicines and other psychoactive substances not under international control.

The fundamental objective of the drug control conventions is to achieve a balance between ensuring availability for medical and scientific purposes and preventing diversion to illicit use and abuse.