Sambo, who stated that the health sector was a critical priority of the UN MDGs, added that its importance was also reflected in the country’s national development objectives, particularly in the Vision 20:2020 and the Transformation Agenda
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Uduaghan, who made the call at the ongoing NMA 1st National Health summit in Asaba, the Delta State capital, said unless there was adequate advocacy there was no way the Nigerian worker would be effectively mobilized to contribute towards the NHIS
The governor, who made the call for partnership at the Day 3 of the 1st National Health Summit in Asaba, the Delta State capital, said that government was taking this step as there was a huge gap between the needs of the people and services provided in the health sector
Nurses, midwives, pharmacists, medical technologists and other categories of health workers, who staged a protest at the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, Ogun State, criticised Chukwu for what they described as unnecessary discrimination in tertiary health institutions
The University of Benin has disowned claims its researchers have found a cure for HIV/AIDS, a day after one of…
The teething powder, allegedly adulterated, was said to have killed about 80 children in 2009
The latest breakthrough owes its success to a pioneering research carried out in the United States by a team of scientists including Nigeria’s Professor Maurice Iwu, an acclaimed pharmacologist and tropical medicine expert
Having a body mass index (BMI) of between 30 and 35 (medically termed ‘obese’) causes more deaths, but people whose BMI was higher than 35 were 29% more likely to die by the end of the study than their normal-weight counterparts
The NMA said Wada’s decision shows he believes in the Nigerian medical care system
Dr. Crandall cannot find scientific explanations for these recoveries, and the fact that they occurred has convinced him that faith-based medical miracles do happen
The medical experts made their position known at the 2012 Executive Conference of the African Organisation For Research and Training in Cancer
She died on Thursday evening after delivering a baby in Nasara Hospital,Marafa Estate in Kaduna
Fayemi stated that the free health mission was established to cater for the section of the population not covered by the free health programme of the government, which is meant for children under five years, pregnant women, elderly people above 65 years and the physically challenged
The Registrar said the World Toilet Day is a day set aside by United Nations for the world to take a break and think of the essential nature of the toilet and its significance in our lives and in the protection of public health
Mohammed made this known at the flag-off of the FCT Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week and the commissioning of the Owner Occupier Primary Health Care Centre in Kubwa, Bwari Area Council
Speaking at an audience with a delegation from the Merck Pharmaceuticals Company of Germany, President Jonathan said that his Administration was therefore doing everything possible to ensure that genuine essential drugs and medicines are constantly available in hospitals and pharmacies in all parts of the country
Under a new policy rolled out by the Administration, the mode of meat haulage in the FCT is now through dedicated meat vans and special purpose-made tricycles with meat haulage compartment
The Programme Officer said that Global Sanitation Funds is meant to support World Sanitation Programme for a period of five years (2013-2017)
The Director-General of NIPRD, Prof. Karniyus Gamaniel, noted at the event with the theme: strengthening the research and commercialisation of NIPRD phytomedicine, that estimated world market for herbal medicine based on traditional knowledge is $60 billion, which is 30 per cent of world pharmaceutical sales, adding that Africa accounts for only 1.2 per cent of the world’s total
The NGO has pioneered policies and partnerships that support investigations into the often unrealized economic and health restoration potential of traditional medicines. At the same time, BDCP has supported Nigerian scientists while raising the socio-economic profiles of the country’s traditional health practitioners