Mwambu Wanendeya, the Executive Director, ONE Campaign, an NGO, has urged the Federal Government to commence the full implementation of the 2014 National Health Act by allocating 15 per cent of its budget to the health sector.
Wanendeya gave the advice when speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the sideline of the NGO’s health campaign titled, “Make Naija Stronger” on Tuesday in Lagos.
The state governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal while speaking on Monday, April 25, 2016 during events marking the World Malaria Day, said the drugs will be shared in Local Governments such as: Isa, Sabon Birni, Goronyo, Rabah, Bodinga, Binji, Tangaza, Kware, Silame, Wamakko, Illela and Gada.
Tambuwal said Nigeria alone accounts for over 40 percent of the estimated total malaria deaths globally, a situation that is not only alarming, but must be tackled for any meaningful development to occur.
A statement by Tambuwal's spokesman, Malam Imam Imam,said the Governor spoke Wednesday in Sokoto while addressing health stakeholders at the on-going 56th annual conference ofthe Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).
The statement said the projects will come on stream while government continues with its earlier plan establish cardiac and renal centers to ease the hardship of transporting patients for treatment to other countries.
The Federal Ministry of Health is planning to establish 10,000 functional primary health care centres across the country between now and 2018, said a senior officer in the ministry.
The Head of Health Financing and Equity at the Federal Ministry of Health, Dr. Francis Ukwuije, said the Federal Government would have completed the building of functional health centres in each ward across the country in two years’ time.
ON this year’s World Malaria Day, health professionals have called on Nigerians to always demand for malaria test from their physicians before treatment.
The experts who spoke at the market introduction of the Fyodor Urine Malaria Test, UMT, in Lagos warned that testing became necessary before treatment as all fevers are not malaria.
The preponderance of the dreaded Lassa Fever virus in Ebonyi State has led to the state government adopting new strategies to fight the outbreak and spread of the disease in the state.As part of measures to fight the spread of the deadly virus, the Ebonyi State government has embarked on the construction of modern virology laboratory worth N250 million.
University Hospitals SeidmanCancer Center physicians have started the world's first clinical trial using a new form of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) to deliver radiation to a specific area of the prostate invaded with cancer - instead of the entire gland. 
A Nigerian scientist and Chief Executive Officer, Fydor Biotechnologies, Dr. Eddy Agbo, has inaugurated a technology that will improve the diagnosis of malaria in the country.
Agbo, who won the 2015 Health Innovation Challenge Award for designing the Urine Malaria Test kit, said the technology would reduce misdiagnosis and give a true picture of the burden of malaria in the country.
MSD, known as Merck & Co., Inc. in the United States and Canada, has added its voice to the World Health Organization (WHO) campaign to promote the use of vaccines against some of the world's deadliest diseases, and for countries to strengthen immunization services and systems.
World Immunization Week, a global awareness campaign launched by WHO in 2012 and commemorated in the last week of April, aims to promote the use of vaccines to help protect people of all ages against disease.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged Rivers Government to strengthen primary healthcare services in the state to ensure qualitative services.
WHO's Country Representative in Nigeria, Dr Rui Gama Vas, made the call in Port Harcourt when he visited Rivers Governor, Chief Nyeson Wike. He said that enlivening primary healthcare service centres across the state would ensure swift reaction to health emergencies.
THE Federal Government yesterday said it would no longer provide resources to any government official to travel abroad for medical attention on cases that could be handled in the country.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 56th Annual General Conference and delegates meeting of Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, in Sokoto, President Muhammadu Buhari, said his administration would not encourage expending hard earned resources on any government official seeking medical care abroad.
Of the $ 3.6 billion (N720 billion) required for the humanitarian response to El Niño, the health sector needs nearly $460 million (N92 billion), just as the World Health Organisation (WHO) requires $51 million (N10.2 billion) to provide urgent healthcare.
El Niño is an oscillation of the ocean-atmosphere system in the tropical Pacific, having important consequences for weather around the globe.
A new President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) emerged on the 28th April, 2016 at the 56th Annual Delegate Meeting and General Conference taking place in Sokoto.
Professor Mike Ogirima, who is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria; along with his Executives are saddled with the responsibility of piloting the affairs of the Association for the next 2 years.
A consortium of eight non-governmental organizations working for the promotion of children and women health under the aegis of the Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health (PACFaH) has expressed concern over the decision of the National Assembly to reduce the budgetary provision for polio immunization in the proposed 2016 budget. Our Mission: Advocacy, capacity building, improving access to finance for the private sector in collaboration with the public sector
Our Vision: To support the achievement of universal healthcare coverage through private sector activation.
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