Today, the burden of cancer in Nigeria is appreciable. Statistics from the World Health Organisation (WHO) show an estimated 100,000 new cancer cases occur in Nigeria each year although observers believe the figure could become as high as 500,000 new cases annually by 2010.

Pfizer, a multinational pharmaceutical company, has provided a three-year unrestricted grant for the training of doctors in all secondary and tertiary health institutions in Nigeria and other West African countries through the West African College of Physicians (WACP).

Wife of the Kwara State Governor, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Saraki has called for harmonization of all campaign efforts made by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOS), civil Society and partners towards reduction of maternal mortality and infant morbidity in the country even as she advocated for political commitments by all tiers of government with a view to ensure that mothers do not die needlessly while giving birth.

Undoubtedly, as the dry season lasts, many people battle with the effects of the excessive heat in their day to day activities. The struggle however does not end at having to sweat all day. There has been news of heat related illnesses like meningitis amongst others. Not long ago, there was a case of casualties of meningitis in some States in the Northern part of the country.

The Wife of the Governor of Cross River State, Mrs. Obioma Liyel Imoke has stressed the need for parents to pay more attention to children’s oral health needs saying the importance of dental health care to the over all health of an individual cannot be overemphasized.

With about 300, 000 Nigerian children killed annually, medical experts have identified lack of adequate power supply in Nigeria as a major clog in the country’s effort in the prevention and control of malaria. According to them, most people refuse to sleep under long lasting insecticide treated nets because the nets generate terrible heat when there is no electricity.

Janet Egwuonwu sat by the road side looking sad and dejected. Her eyes were swollen and her mien was pensive. There was every indication that she had been crying since only God Knows when.

Abdulslam Abubakar, 45 stood vehemently by the door shielding his five -year- old child when he sighted a team of vaccinators coming towards his house. As they approach closer to his house, Abdulslam shouted “No, I will not watch you poison my child with that medicine of yours. I don’t like it, he said dragging Kabri, his child into his house.

No fewer than 150 Nigerian girls last week benefitted from the Procter and Gamble West Africa’s (P&G) Always care Scholarship awards.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has endorsed the new strategy adopted by the United Nations General Assembly resolution on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases – mainly cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes- which kill nearly 35 million people each year, including almost 9 million before the age of 60.