Ebola: FG quarantines high-risk contacts, allays fears; patient zero shows signs of recovery
Enugu’s position as a travel and commercial hub, particularly through the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, made heightened surveillance necessary
As Baby Leaves ‘Detention’… Parents were told child could be ‘detained’ over unpaid hospital bills – CMD
Parents of new babies who also could not pay their medical bills in the hospital were made to deposit their belongings such as motorcycles and generating sets until they had the means to pay
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.
