Vanguard summit: Mental health neglect threatens Nigeria’s stability – Sheikh
…Charges FG to enforce 2021 Act, expand services By Sola Ogundipe Nigeria’s neglect of mental health is threatening social stability, weakening public trust and deepening despair among young people struggling with insecurity, and diminishing their confidence in the future, Professor Taiwo Lateef Sheikh, a leading psychiatrist, has warned. Sheikh, a professor of psychiatry and psychopharmacology, […]
Cancer scandal in National Hospital
Mention the word, ‘cancer’ and fear grips everyone around. To many people, it is gradually becoming the number one killer illness. Is it really? Yes, the claim that cancer is a killer illness is not only alarming but is also true.
When adolescents write about Endometriosis and the girl child
When she was announced winner of the maiden Annual Endometriosis Support Group Nigeria, ESGN, Secondary School Essay Competition, Deborah Simileoluwa Oladipo was fulfilled. For the 15-year-old SS3 student and Head Girl at Canon James Pearse Anglican College, Iwaya, Lagos, winning the coveted prize of the special competition was a dream come true.
Over 2000 Imo citizens to benefit from rural health care
The Ndubuisi Emenike Foundation said, yesterday, that it started the upgrading of the health centre in Umuduru, Nsu community in Ehime Mbano Local Government Area, Imo State, to make health care service available and affordable for over 2000 people in the area.
Cholera: worst epidemics of past decade
The cholera epidemic in Yemen, where it is afflicting one million people according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, ranks among the world’s worst of the past decade.
Suspected cholera cases in Yemen hit 1m – ICRC
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says the number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has hit one million, ICRC said in a statement.
