With a view of reducing further infant mortality rates, two non-government organizations have partnered to upgrade the skills of 22 nurses in handling complicated deliveries in a bid to ensure birth of healthy babies.
TWO doctors, one of them attached to the health ministry headquarters, have been detained over accusations of theft of drugs and Government funds.
twenty children, including four adults suffering from cleft lip palate, an ailment in the roof of the mouth, were recently treated feely of their ailment at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada.
FEDERAL Government has been advised to exercise caution in banning importations of drugs into the country, to avoid unnecessary hike in prices of drugs and hospital supplies.
Seven children die of hunger every minute because they do not have access to treatment, but the impact of climate change on the drivers of undernutrition - food insecurity, health threats and water stress - could push up this number, the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) said at the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen (COP15).
The United Nations official leading efforts to tackle malaria is visiting Nigeria and Kenya this week, the two nations which together account for one third of the estimated 1 million deaths worldwide from the deadly disease.
The Minister of Trade and Industry has reportedly lifted the controversial ban on the manufacture and consumption of sachet waragi, which was imposed by the Ministry of Health in September following reports of poisonous alcohol that claimed about 20 lives.
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) can be delivered safely in the first year without routine laboratory monitoring for toxic effects, according to an article in The Lancet.
Any medical doctor in a public hospital can sign a Kenya Police Medical Examination Form (P3), Internal Security assistant minister Orwa Ojodeh has said.
Every December, the village of Kangete, in eastern Kenya's Nyambene District, gears up for yet another season of festivities - not Christmas, however, but the initiation of hundreds of young men into manhood through circumcision.
The Health Ministry has said it requires Sh991million to fight the cholera outbreak in the country.
Social obstacles such as attitudes, norms and behaviours aid to the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT).
An Abakaliki based non-governmental organization (NGO), Ebonyi Humanity Foundation, at the weekend organised a seminar and free HIV counselling and testing for students of Ebonyi State College of Education, Ikwo.
Far too many African parents are familiar with the hardships and sadness caused by diarrhoeal disease.
In apparent move to improve the quality of health care delivery to Nigerians, MTN Foundation on Monday made a donation of Haemodialysis Centres to 12 public medical institutions drawn from the six geo-political zones of the country.
Amadou A Sowe, a staff of the Medical and Health Department, aged fourty and a resident of Bakau, is in urgent need of assistance for overseas treatment.
Eritrea has been cited as an example for the achievements it has registered thus far in the health sector, especially, in polio eradication, reduction of mother and child mortality rates, as well as the prevention of the spread of malaria and HIV/AIDS.
Nacfa Hospital is providing improved service as a result of the endeavors being made by the Government to tackle the lack of enough bedrooms, medical equipments and electricity, stated the manager of the Hospital, Mr. Tesfai Tsegai.
Dr. Lisa Masterson, an American doctor and co-host of the popular TV series program "The Doctors" said that at a time when a number of developing countries are suffering from lack of enough medical doctors and in which their citizens are falling victim to various diseases, the fact that Eritrea manages to nurture doctors on the basis of internal resource attests to the country's bright future.
Loss of a dear one is one thing that different people react to differently. Not even the mighty on earth can easily come to terms with this somber moment.
THERE is need to establish more HIV and Aids support groups and centres in all major cities to reach out to all people living with HIV and Aids, a National Aids Council official has said.
The Emmy Award winning actress and Population Services International Ambassador, Debra Messing, will visit Zimbabwe this week to attend the ninth presentation of the Auxillia Chimusoro HIV and Aids Awards tomorrow.
Celebration Health and its various partners yesterday donated medical drugs worth US$4,5 million to the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare to be distributed to hospitals countrywide.
Government has extended the targeted resuscitating of health institutions, including infrastructure rehabilitation and equipment procurement to provincial and district hospitals following a budget allocation of US$25,5 million for the programme.
With their spacious and palatial residences in Apo Legislators' Quarters still in shape, new residences are to be built for all four presiding officers in the National Assembly, this time around, at the high brow Maitama District Extension of Abuja. Reasons were not immediately given by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Senator Adamu Aliero, for the new residences for which N1.5 ...
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