By Halima Layeni, Dear Honorable Minister for Health, I pen this letter to you with a heavy heart, but also with a fervent hope for change....
Kaduna State Primary Health Development Agency, (KPHDA) says there is no pending cases of Lassa fever in the state. Director of public health, Ibrahim Hamza-Ikara, told...
From Attah Ede Makurdi The Benue State Government, on Monday , singed Memorandums of understandings (MOUs) with the Shanghai Haitian Hospital, to facilitate academic and clinical...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported one death and confirmed 15 new cases of lassa fever within one week across the...
Nigeria has become the first country in the world to roll out a new vaccine – Men5CV – recommended by World Health Organisation(WHO), to protect people...
By Laide Akinboade, Abuja Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof Muhammad Ali Pate, has reiterated the commitment of the Federal government, through the Basic...
Dr Veronica Nyamali, a psychiatrist with the Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital Yaba, Lagos, has advocated increased awareness on mental health as antidote to rising cases of suicide...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said that at least 4.5 billion people, more than half of the world’s population, are not fully covered by essential health...
The Kebbi Government says it offered free treatment to 23,542 patients with mental illnessat the Zauro Psychiatric Medical Outreach from 2023 till date in the state....
Dr Amina El-Imam, the Kwara Commissioner for Health, has submitted that in 2023, Tuberculosis claimed about 1,869 lives in Kwara. Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a serious...