3.5m missing births:: How hospitals can close Nigeria’s registration gap
… Experts add: Register them where they are bornBy Chioma Obinna The first cry came, then the rush of hands. A newborn baby girl had just entered the world. While nurses attended to the mother and cleaned the baby, Emmanuel Joseph was already thinking beyond the excitement of fatherhood. He wanted his daughter to exist […]
Help! I am going blind, Aaishat, 4, pleads
FOUR-YEAR-OLD Aaishat Dikko is going blind. Retinoblastoma – a devastating eye disorder that is threatening to take her eyesight, has already claimed her left eye. When she was born into the Shamsudin Dikko family, Aaishat weighed a healthy 3.2 kilogrammes.
Foundation tasks FG on malaria awareness
Federal government needs to redirect its malaria awareness programmes to the grassroots with a view to ensuring that messages gets to nooks and crannies of the country.
Paucity of funds bane of healthcare delivery, says MDCAN
The need for proper financing of healthcare delivery was at the front burner of the maiden Annual General Meeting of the Lagos State chapter of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) last week in Lagos.
Yerima: Allegation yet to be proved, says Iyabo Obasanjo
Chairman Senate Committee on Health, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo Bello has described as an “allegation†the purported taking as wife of a 13-year -old girl by Senator Sani Yarima.
HIV & AIDS: Dame Patience advocates stronger political will
The urgency attached to stamping out HIV &AIDS in Nigeria brought together top Nigerian women in politics to the formal launching of Bayelsan Silhouettes, an HIV & AIDS, Media Awareness campaign in Abuja.
