ELizabeth Chima requires N 7million urgently to undergo a kidney transplant. Chima, who hails from Anambra state, said the ailment started in 2009, when she noticed a boil on her left leg. The mother of six visited a private hospital at Ikotun, where she was informed she had ulcer which sis not heal.

The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has urged Nigerians to give priority to routine medical check up in their scheme of things even as it applauded the Niger State Government for directing its Civil Service Commission to urgently develop an effective modality of conducting an annual medical check-up for the state’s work force.

Efficient and reliable laboratory services and networks have been identified as essential factors in an effective and well-functioning health system.

Just last week President Goodluck Jonathan signed into law a Bill criminalsing same-sex relationship in Nigeria. Since the signing of the law, which contains penalties of up to 14 years in prison, there have been so many criticisms both in Nigeria and outside the country.

Like mentioned before, the spiritual and material aspects of our lives must be well and harmoniously combined in order for us to find a balance in life, and heal ourselves. But this will also help us protect ourselves and our loved ones from any negative energy, which might cause, besides stress and bad temper, also real diseases, since it is already known and generally acknowledged that stress can lower our immune system, thus allowing diseases to spread into the weakened organisms. In order to avoid all this, we must be aware of the fact that our home, our living space allows us to regenerate after a stressful day at work, and brings us and our family that unity which will help us fight everything with success.

The World Health Organization on Friday declared Pakistan’s troubled northwestern city of Peshawar as the world’s “largest reservoir” of endemic polio and called for urgent action to boost vaccination.

How can you prevent kidney disease? This is one question making the rounds following the 1st successful kidney transplant surgery at the Delta State University Teaching Hospital, DELSUTH, Oghara, Delta State.

All is not well with the health sector in Nigeria. For months on end, the industry has been entwined in a web of dispute, discord, protests and wranglings culminating in or arising from strikes, or threats of strikes and other expressions of disharmony.

ANEW global report on polio has shown that Nigeria has made considerable progress toward polio eradication in the last 18 months.
According to the report published in the latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, MMWR, , since late November 2013, no Wild PolioVirus 3 cases had been reported for more than a year.

A NEW global report on polio has shown that Nigeria has made considerable progress toward polio eradication in the last 18 months.