The Ogun state government has announced it step to curb to commence verification for portable water and beverages companies in the state over outbreak of Cholera that has killed over 12 people in the state. Ogun state Commissioner for...
KANO — The Executive Director, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr. Faisal Shuaibu on Wednesday said over 570 persons have lost their lives to diphtheria outbreak in the country. Dr. Shuaibu made this known when he led the Diphtheria...
The Federal Government has approved the appointment of doctors, nurses, and other clinical healthcare workers as contract staff after attaining their compulsory retirement age or years.The government, however, said the appointed contract staff would be on the same salary...
As diphtheria spreads further across the country, the federal government has urged the affected 19 states to reintroduce the use of facemasks.The executive director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib, gave the advice yesterday...
The UN’s health agency on Monday recommended an additional malaria vaccine for children, which could save hundreds of thousands of lives by plugging a huge supply and demand gap.Nearly half a million children in the African region die every...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released 16 million dollars from the WHO Contingency Fund for Emergencies to tackle cholera. Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General said this during an online news conference. Ghebreyesus said that the organisation was providing...
Alex Otti @alexottiofrI am delighted to announce the reopening of the General Hospital Amachara and the renovated and retrofitted Abia State Specialist Hospital and Diagnostic Centre. These facilities have been upgraded and will be driven by a round-the-clock power...
Following the identification of at least four new genes linked to the disease, a blood test may help better identify women who are at risk for breast cancer. Important genes like BRCA1 are already well-known to be associated to...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 51 new cases of circulating variant poliovirus (cVPV2) have been recorded in Nigeria from January to August 2023. Walter Mulombo, the WHO country representative in Nigeria, who spoke in Kaduna on Thursday, said...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is closely monitoring BA.2.86, a new variant of COVID-19, detected in Israel, Denmark and the United States. In a bulletin on Thursday, the WHO said is it classifying the new version of...
