LIFE has little meaning for Praise Omonhimoria, aged one year and five months, no thanks to a nagging health problem. Born with a hole in the heart, he has been denied the excitement and indulgence of infancy enjoyed by his contemporaries.

THE United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, has described as false and misleading, reports alleging that it is attempting to coerce the pregnant girls and women rescued from Boko Haram insurgents in the Sambisa Forest, to terminate their pregnancies.

As Nigerian’s celebrate this year’s Children’s Day, expectant mothers have been urged to eat healthy foods as part of measures to ensure good oral health for their unborn babies.

The emission of carbon monoxide into the atmosphere has no doubt created a negative impact on the environment. But the issue is beyond the environment, the health of humans is also gravely affected. Kerosene stoves, generators, gas flaring among others, are major components of the average Nigerian. This is sad because according to a recent research, about one thousand Nigerians die as every year as a result of inhaling of toxic smoke.

AWKA — FOLLOWING the release of the fact sheet of Service Delivery Indicators, SDI, survey for 2013 in Anambra State, which exposed the problems in the health sector, stakeholders from the health departments in al the 21 local government areas of the state brainstormed in Awka to suggest ways of improving the situation.