Bola and Tola are twins. Born in Ikorodu, Lagos, the children, both boys, have grown in the last two years, playing, laughing and crying in the same manner until the day Bola was diagnosed with polio. Unlike Tola, he can no longer walk.

By Chioma Obinna & Oluchi Muogbo Only 2000 of the estimated 18 million people in Lagos donate blood voluntarily even as the need for safe blood through recruitment of voluntary blood donors was at the front burner at this year’s Blood Donation Day. Speaking at the even organised by the Lagos State Blood Transfusion Committee, […]

WHEN the Indomie Hospital Project train took off in April 2009, the aim and objective of the initiative was crystal clear. Designed to realistically support the efforts of government at Federal and State levels to bring quality health care services to Nigerian children, the project features the donation of hospital equipment to various hospitals in Nigeria.

Anulika Ogbonna is a 32-year-old lady diagnosed with cancer of the breast. Altough discharged from the National Hospital Abuja, she is far from healed. “When I noticed a lump in my breast, I was afraid, because I have little information on cancer of the breast. My fear was confirmed when I went to Gwagwalada Specialist Hospital for diagnosis. The lump was extracted, but I am not improving. I need surgery, but can’t afford it.”

Renowned cardiology expert and Senior lecturer at the Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Prof. Lansberg Peter Jan, as well as Prof. Vincent Idemyor, a Nigerian professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine at the University of Illinois, USA, are among leading cardiologists, nephrologists (kidney specialists) and other experts in the study and management of heart diseases expected at the 2nd Pfizer’s Cardiovascular Summit holding tomorrow in Lagos.

IF there is one thing African governments need to do to ensure that their efforts in tackling the menace of the HIV & AIDS pandemic is more effective, it is for them to be more committed and realistic in approach, particularly in the face of the current global economic meltdown.

APPARENTLY worried by the rising incidence of chronic ailments in the country, coupled with the increasing need for continuous improvement in clinical training and specialised care, management of Lagoon Hospitals, Apapa, Lagos, recently commissioned its new treatment wing housing a six-bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and High Dependency Unit (HDU) in line with its quest to benchmark its services against the best global standards.

Towards facilitating government search for healthcare solution in the country, the Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas (ANPA) is focussing on strategies for assessing and identifying populations at high risk to health-related problems with special emphasis on hypertension, diabetes, HIV&AIDS and other chronic and infectious diseases.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has announced that 2.3 million people living with HIV have been reached with lifesaving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment through AIDS programmes it supports, a 31 per cent increase over results reported a year ago.

EVEN though Nigeria was not listed as one of the countries to be visited by President Barack Obama on his maiden trip to Africa last weekend, the American leader nevertheless found it expedient to single out for special mention, Nigeria’s path-breaking interfaith initiative to defeat malaria.

Health Minister Prof. Babatunde Oshotimehin has attributed poor and inadequate funding, poor political will as the major challenges facing the control of epidemic outbreak in the West African countries.

THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Frank Emeka Ozor, an Evangelist from Delta State needs help and needs it fast. Fortunes forthe fair-skinned man, who has been evangelising for a few years, suddenly took a turn for the worse during one of his evangelisations, when he was involved in a road traffic accident.

ALL roads led to the sleepy town of Epe in Lagos State Thursday last week as people from far and near converged at the Epe General Hospital for a special event never before witnessed within the environs. It was the official dedication of the NNPC/Chevron Joint Venture medical incinerator project built in partnership with the Lagos State government.

As part of its campaign against hypertension, the Nigerian Hypertension Society (NHS) has launched its continuing medical education (CME) programme for doctors and other specialists who care for patients with hypertension in the country.

THE high burden of mortality and morbidity of various forms of fistula amongst Nigerian women has become so worrisome that calls for urgent action to protect lives of those affected are being made.