Dr Clement Edet, Director, Planning and Statistics, Rivers Primary Healthcare Management Board says the state has adequate Primary HealthCare centres (PHC), but lacked facilities.
Health workers under the aegis of the National Union of Allied Health Professionals took to the streets, in Abuja, on Tuesday, to protest what they described as rot in the health sector.
The Director for Vaccines at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Orin Levine, has said that scientists are going to the next phase of evaluation for the malaria vaccine candidate.
The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Yashoda Hospitals, India.
The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos, on Wednesday inaugurated modern laboratory equipment for its Accident and Emergency (AE) Unit for quick outcome of medical test and to save lives.
Anambra State Government has embarked on recertification of health facilities in order to eliminate quackery and check illegal and unwholesome practices in the health sector, says Commissioner of Health Dr. Joe Akabuike.
Health economists estimate Nigeria will need to invest at least $603 million (around N189.7 billion) by next year in family planning to reach its target of ensuring at least 36 out of every 100 women of child-bearing age get access to modern contraception methods.
The hospital was built by Senator Mohammed Hassan, of the Yobe South Senatorial District, and donated to the Federal Government.
Three weeks after Prof. Maduike Ezeibe of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Abia State claimed to have discovered a cure for Human Immuno-deficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), Spanish scientists over the weekend said five patients living with the disease are virus-free seven months after taking a new vaccine.
According to a study published in New Scientist but first reported by DailyMailUK Online, the treatment, developed by researchers in Spain, allowed the patients to stop taking regular antiretroviral (ARV) drugs – the current method of suppressing HIV.
The Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, on Monday appealed to the striking health workers and doctors of the state to end their industrial action.
Health workers, under the umbrella of Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP), have called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in the health care system, because the sector needs urgent revamping.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, has commissioned a mobile clinic programme to provide basic and essential health care services to people, especially those living in hard to reach areas of the country.
The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Monday, published its first-ever list of antibiotic resistant “priority pathogens”, a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that posed threat to human health.
The Federal Government says it has equipped 1,000 healthcare centres for comprehensive HIV treatment in the country.
