Fibroids: Treat women, not just fibroids — Ajayi
…Centre marks HIFU milestone, calls for wider access to non-invasive care By Sola Ogundipe Medical doctors must look beyond treating fibroids to address the physical, psychological, social and reproductive challenges women face, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fibroid Care Centre, Nordica, Dr Abayomi Ajayi, has said.Ajayi spoke as the centre marked 1,000 high-intensity […]
300 doctors abandon Nigeria
Three hundred Nigerian doctors left the country in 2016, the National President, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Prof. Mike Ogirima has revealed.
Government hospitals detain patients in Lagos
FOUR months after Dapo Sheba and Oluwole Abisogun were officially discharged from the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja, they are yet to go home. Tawa Yusuf who was also discharged three months ago from the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi Araba, is yet to be reunited with her family.
Nurses, spinal cord of health system – Group
The Inspire Nurses Network and Nurses in Diaspora on Thursday in Abuja said nurses were “spinal cord’’ of health system in every society.
Set standard for drug distribution, community pharmacists tell NAFDAC
Worried about the chaotic system of drug distribution in the country, Pharmacists under the auspices of Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria, ACPN, have urged the newly appointed Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, as matter of urgency holistically put in place standard distribution chain to address the uncoordinated drug distribution system in the country.
Relief as doctors rescue Nigerian women from VVF nightmare
Is childbearing a curse or blessing to womanhood? This nagging question kept reechoing as reporters watched surgeons at work in the operating theatre of the Usmanu Danfodiyo Teaching Hospital, Sokoto.
