About 30 years ago, EKO Hospitals Group was fully accredited for the postgraduate fellowship training in family medicine. Early this year, it obtained a two year accreditation for postgraduate training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. In this interview, the Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, Mr. Olusegun Odukoya, a Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, speaks to Chioma Obinna on the impact of post-graduate training to healthcare delivery.

SUCCOUR came the way of the communities in Idemili LGA, Anambra state and its environs recently as a partnership to provide qualitative and affordable healthcare at Iyi-Enu Mission Hospital was signed between Avon Healthcare Ltd (Avon HMO) Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCo.

Countless research and self-help books claim that having more sex will lead to increased happiness, based on the common finding that those having more sex are also happier. Scientists now report that simply having more sex did not make couples happier, in part because the increased frequency led to a decline in wanting for and enjoyment of sex.

HOPES of a universal, commercially licensed malaria vaccine this year may have dimmed as the first candidate malaria vaccine to reach phase III clinical trials, though safe, has been found to provide only modest protection for infants.

With over 70 percent of hypertensive patients guilty of non-compliance with their drug regimens in Nigeria, experts have harped on the need for Nigerians to develop the culture of regular blood pressure checks even as they expressed worry over patients’ drug inconsistency.