NIGERIANS have been urged to develop the habit of engaging in voluntary blood donation as a way of life in order to enable the country meet the requirements of demand for safe blood transfusion services.

Every 14th of June, the world marks the World Blood Donor Day aimed at raising global awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products for transfusion and of the critical contribution voluntary blood donors make to national health systems.

Today, the true face of a Nigerian child still represents deprivations in all spheres of life. The Nigerian child is struggling with poverty, hunger, illiteracy, disease and squalour, and is exposed to all forms of social abuse.

THE essence of innovation, continuity and teamwork were amongst core values of leadership advocated by the Nigerian delegation to the 63rd World Health Assembly, WHA, in Geneva, Switzerland, even as Nigeria was applauded on the floor of the meeting of the Ministers of Commonweath nations for her efforts and achievements in the area of health.

Amidst reports that no fewer than 80 percent of Nigerians will, at a point in their life time, develop arthritis, a disease characterised by pain and swellings of the joints, multinational pharmaceutical company, Pfizer has assured pain specialists in Nigeria of its resolve to partner with them to provide effective management for the Nigerian patients.