A TOTAL of 104 free eye surgeries have been carried out on 66 children from the less privileged homes in Abuja by an Indian NGO – Tulsi Chanrai Foundation (TCF).

Health experts have lamented inability of medical researchers to find a lasting cure in the form of a reliable vaccine for malaria and HIV even though potential benefits of efficacious malaria or HIV vaccines are not in doubt.

With the ratio of one nurse to 30 patients in most hospitals across the nation, management of National Orthopaedic Hospital Enugu (NOHE) says the establishment of a Post Basic School of Nursing in the hospital is aimed at improving the poor ratio of nurses to patient in the country, particularly in the area of orthopaedic, burns/plastic nursing.

By Chiyere Amalu The health Bill before the National Assembly stipulating 2 per cent of the nation’s annual budget will be domiciled into Primary Health Care (PHC) will soon be signed into law.

A Non-governmental Organisation, Kidcare Consults, has embarked on aggressive enlightenment campaign against the debilitating effects of smoking, especially in youths. The campaign is executed partly by convening of workshops where young children are exposed to the dangers of smoking.

THE need to put the Community at the centre of national development has been identified as one of the most effective ways of promoting sustainable development and quality health, Minister of Health Prof Babatunde Oshotimehin has disclosed.

TOWARDS mitigating the burden of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Nigeria, the Federal government in collaboration with the Global TB Partnership and USAID, is conducting a prevalence survey of persons with TB that is resistant to treatment with first-line anti-TB drugs in the country.

AN estimated seven million safe injection commodities worth over N104 million was procured and distributed in
Nigeria over the last five years and 10,000 health workers trained in injection safety under the Making Medical Injections Safer (MMIS) project funded by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

I have been taking laxatives every day for years with out any problems, usually containing senna, but recently, I was told by a doctor that they can be harmful and I must stop. Without them, I will be constipated. What can I do?

Managing Director, Clearline HMO, Dr. Olusegun Ogundimu has called on Federal government to focus on community based health insurance scheme to engender growth in the nation’s health sector. This based on the need that community based health insurance is low in Nigeria and there should be concerted efforts by all the stakeholders to address the situation.