PRESIDENT Umar Yar’Adua has been urged to reconstitute the Governing Board of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), and appointment of a leadership in line with provisions of Section 9 of decree 15 of 1993 as amended, if the current campaign against fake and adulterated food and drug products is to be successful.

TOWARDS minimising circulation of fake and adulterated pharmaceutical products in the country, the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria is intensifying efforts aimed at strengthening the drug distribution system.

UNICEF’s Executive Director, Ms. Ann Veneman, is visiting Nigeria July 31 – August 3, 2009.

ABOUT N7 billion was realised last week at the official fund raising ceremony of the first ever International Cancer Centre Abuja (ICCA) to meet the N10 billion target. The fund is meant to construct a cancer centre that would provide services in the areas of diagnosis, treatment and research for cancer patients.

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.