Lagos: A senior medical practitioner, Dr. Leo Odudu, says the government’s sponsorship of campaigns in local languages will help to tackle the tobacco menace in society. Odudu, the Medical Director at Emel Hospital, FESTAC, Lagos, spoke with the News …
Abuja: The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says new Lassa fever cases declined in epidemiological week 19, falling from 22 in the previous week to 17 confirmed cases. The agency said this in its Lassa Fever Situation Report fo…
Lagos: President Bola Tinubu has inaugurated the Lagos Cold and Dry Storage Hub, a future-ready vaccine storage and distribution cold chain facility, designed to serve 90.7 million Nigerians by 2035 and beyond.
According to News Agency of Nigeria, t…
Lagos: In July 2014, Nigeria stood at the edge of what could have been a catastrophic public health collapse when Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian-American diplomat infected with Ebola Virus Disease, arrived at Murtala Muhammed International Airport and lat…
Abuja: President Bola Tinubu has commissioned the ultra-modern Bola Tinubu Complex at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abuja, as part of efforts to strengthen specialist healthcare services and reduce medical tourism in Nigeria. Tinubu, represented b…
Abuja: The African Immigrants Resources Centre (AIRC), through its Give A Girl A Pad (GAGAP) initiative, has distributed menstrual hygiene products to girls in selected schools in the FCT and Nasarawa State to tackle period poverty. The intervention a…
Lagos: The pharmaceutical giant, May and Baker Nigeria Plc., has identified hypertension treatment as a ‘lifetime medication’, calling for Federal Government’s interventions to reduce cost of its drugs to enhance access. May and Baker Chief Execut…
Nnewi: The Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Foundation has donated a 1.5 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imagery (MRI) system to the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH) in Nnewi, Anambra. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that…