Nearly 150m Africans live with mental health conditions — WHO
Agency urges greater funding, community-based care By Chidinma Chukwu, Abuja Nearly 150 million people across Africa are living with mental health, neurological or substance use conditions, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said, calling for greater investment in mental healthcare across the continent. The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Mohamed Janabi, disclosed this in […]
Reproductive Health focuses on aging, infertility
The November 2010 edition of Reproductive Health Magazine which hit the newsstands last week, focuses on various health issues ranging from aging, infertility, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, breast cancer, sickle cell diseases and more.
ARN tasks FG on training of radiographers
With just 400 radiographers serving 140 million Nigerians, and an average of 10 radiographers attending to 350 beds in most teaching hospitals across the country against the World Health Organisation’s recommended 20 patients to a radiographer, the incidence of improper and inaccurate diagnosis is bound to be on the increase.
GSK pledges to help Nigeria reduce childhood pneumonia
As its own contribution towards the reduction of the spate of deaths from childhood pneumonia in Nigeria, multinational pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline, GSK has pledged support for Nigeria’s efforts.
Nigerian women deserve free cervical cancer screening – NYONG
Rot. (Dr.) Eyo Nyong is a General Medical Practitioner and Medical Adviser, Motorparts Industry. In this interview with Chioma Obinna, Nyong who is also Coordinator of the annual health programme of the Catholic Chaplaincy Centre, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) maintaines that free screening for all Nigerian women will check the spread of cervical cancer.
Be responsible for your health, Nigerians told
EVEN as an estimated 500 Nigerians benefited from the free health screening organised by the Catholic Chaplaincy Centre of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH)/College of Medicine University of Lagos (CMUL)’s 2010 Health Education and Health Service Day in Lagos, Nigerians have been urged to take responsibility for their health.
