Ebola: NCDC raises alert after Kenya confirms imported case
…No case in Nigeria, agency says By Chioma Obinna The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, (NCDC) yesterday heightened vigilance across the country following confirmation of an imported case of Ebola disease caused by the Bundibugyo virus in Kenya.The development has raised concerns over the risk of international importation of the disease into Nigeria […]
Again, trouble in hospitals !
IN Nigeria, the word “strike” is like a broken record where the Joint Health Sector Workers’ Union of Nigeria, JOHESU, a conglomerate of healthcare associations in the health sector, is concerned. To the average Nigeria, strike means a number of things, none of which is encouraging, complimentary or healthy to say the least.
Man, 64, suffers stroke 10 times in 10 years
Stroke is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and it is likely to worsen in developing countries such as Nigeria over the next two decades based on projections by the World Health Organisation.
NAFDAC cautions farmers on pesticides
THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has cautioned farmers on the safe use of pesticides as it is highly dangerous to health, even as it is set to empower 2,000 of its staff on farm production while in active service.
Nutrition expert trumps up benefit of Olympic milk
A Consultant and advocate of healthy living, fitness and lifestyle, Dr. Bisi Abiola, has said that adequate intake of milk fortifies the human body against diseases and supplies essential nutritional requirement for healthy living.
Inadequate funding, low access threaten Nigeria’s TB control programme
By Sola Ogundipe INSUFFICIENT funding and poor access to proper treament services are hampering Nigeria’s efforts to combat the menace of tuberculosis, a disease that killed an estimated 1.5 million people in 2013 including 360,000 people who were living with HIV. Although Nigeria has developed a new National Strategic Plan on TB, it documents a […]
