NAFDAC seizes N200m fake drink packaging in Aba
By Chioma Obinna The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has seized counterfeit packaging materials valued at more than ₦200 million from five shops at Old Court Road Market, Aba, Abia State, during an enforcement operation targeting the alleged production of fake alcoholic drinks and other regulated products. The agency said […]
Disability Day: Lagos NSP calls for practical action
The International Day of the Persons with Disabilities may have come and gone but the agonies of living with disabilities may still linger within the affected population.
Conduct, not condom is solution to spread of HIV, says Bambe
The Catholic Archdioceses of Lagos’s Health Department last week organised a walk rally to mark this year’s World AIDS Day. The programme was part of the Catholic church’s efforts towards creating awareness against the spread of HIV especially among youths.
SERAC promotes HIV & AIDS awareness at the grassroots
Despite the extent of awareness and programmes organised by government and various non-governmental bodies, it is shocking that some Nigerians especially those living in slums areas of the country are still ignorant about issues of HIV & AIDS.
Health professionals declare war on counterfeit medicines
NIGERIAN medical health professionals and their counterparts from 11 other African countries have called on their governments to immediately implement and enforce relevant legislations and regulations that will prevent, control and reduce the incidence of counterfeit medicines.
How Reddington, Edensfield, LASUTH gave Victoria hope
October 29, 2010, will remain evergreen for Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Onuoha. This was a day, doctors in Reddington Hospital, Lagos repaired the heart of their three-year-old baby, Victoria Onuoha through non-surgical intervention called Device Closure of PDA’, a procedure that leaves no scar on the patient.
