Oil giant, Shell says about 90 million Nigerians suffer from health problems resulting from their exposure to large concentration of toxins emitted from burning of fuels occasioned by the use of smoke-emitting cooking stoves. Country Chairman of Shell ...
Mrs Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, the founder, Breast Cancer Association of Nigeria (BRECAN), on Monday urged the Federal Government to formulate strong policy on breast cancer to save the lives of women. She made the call at a news conference in Ibadan as ...
The federal government is set to collaborate with other African countries to train laboratory auditors in a bid to improve laboratory services in the country. Recently, the World Health Organisation (WHO) released a checklist for best practices in labo...
The Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr Paul Orhi, on Wednesday, said that over 50 per cent of medicines were prescribed inappropriately by unauthorised persons. Orhi, represented by Mrs Maureen ...
The Enugu State Governor, Mr Sullivan Chime, has called on medical practitioners to check quackery in their profession to maintain a good record. Chime made the call in Enugu on Wednesday while declaring open the 2012 physicians’ week of the Nige...
Mrs Priscillia Shu, the Executive Director of RemaCare Integrated Centre, a Port Harcourt-based NGO, has called for the distribution of condoms and treated mosquito nets at flood victims camps. Shu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday in Abuja approved the Nigeria National Pharmacovigilance Policy aimed at monitoring and managing the adverse effects of drugs. The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, made this known while briefi...
Nigerian drugs will henceforth bear scratch cards to reveal their identification numbers, NAFDAC said on Tuesday in Ibadan. The agency said the numbers would provide users with information on the authenticity of drugs. This was disclosed by the N...
Dr Mudashiru Uthman of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, (UITH), said on Monday that vegetables grown with infected human faeces as manure could lead to Hepatitis B. The consultant public health physician told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in ...
Dr Dumebi Owa, President, Medical Women`s Association of Nigeria (MWAN), Lagos State branch, on Monday, said malaria killed over 300, 000 people every year in Nigeria. Owa disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in La...
No fewer than 5,000 people from two communities of Koloware and Aven in Patani Local Government Area of Delta have been rendered homeless, as flood submerged their homes. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that East/West Road has been converted i...
The Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu has complained that less than 5 per cent of qualified candidates who apply to read medicine in Nigeria Universities are able to secure admission which affects number of doctor-patient ratio of 1:3500&n...
The Chairman, House committee on Health Services, Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon Suru Avoseh, has warned that any Medical Officer of Health( MOH) found wanting in the discharge of his duty would be dealt with accordingly. He disclosed this at...
A Radiologist, Dr Adekunle Adeyomoye, has called on the federal government to subsidise the cost of mammography for the populace inorder to reduce the cost of breast&nb...
Every independence anniversary is time for stock taking. Hence WINIFRED OGBEBO, in this piece talks to stakeholders on the gains and successes recorded over the years. They also assess progress in the health sector in the past 52 years if any. Here are...