The Federal Government says it is determined to reduce the maternal mortality rate from 576 per 100,000 birth in 2013 to 288 per 100,000 births in 2022. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, made […]
By Kemi Yesufu The European Union has announced that it has allocated an additional €300 000 (N102m) in humanitarian aid to provide life-saving treatment to undernourished children in Nigeria’s northwestern states of Sokoto and Zamfara, […]
By Kemi Yesufu Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has said President Muhammadu Buhari appointed a new Executive-Secretary for the National Health Insurance Scheme to bring an end to the controversies that plagued the […]
The kidnapped Chief Medical Director of the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH), Prof. Sylvanus Okogbenin, has been released. Mr Danmallam Mohammed, the Edo State Commissioner of Police who confirmed the release said the CMD was […]
By Kemi Yesufu Recently appointed, Executive-Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof. Mohammed Sambo, has listed means through which he will have a productive tenure, void of controversies. Speaking to journalists on the […]
Doctors and other medical staff of the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, have downed tools following the abduction of the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Prof. Sylvanus Okogbenin. The doctors on the platform of Association […]
Older adults who ate the most seafood had less Alzheimer’s-related brain pathology compared to those who ate little or no seafood. In the decades ahead, public health officials predict growing numbers of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia […]
In its bid to improve data in Nigeria’s health sector and expand access to healthcare, the Federal Ministry of Health, commenced a two-day workshop on National Health Management Information System in Abuja on Monday. The […]
Babagana Zulum, Borno state governor, did not meet any doctor on duty when he paid an unscheduled visit to some hospitals in Maiduguri, the state capital, on Tuesday. The governor was said to have visited […]
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control has warned that eating washed up aquatic animals is like eating the remains of a cow found on the road. The Director, Food Safety and Applied […]
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