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MediaCon takes CSA campaign to the market place

MediaCon takes CSA campaign to the market place

In response to the declaration of Child Sexual Abuse as a public health epidemic that needs to be tackled from the grassroots, key members of Oshodi/ Isolo market women were last week engaged in a three-day peer education training workshop organised by Media Concern Initiative For Women and Children (MEDIACON).

Fortis performs 1st heart transplant

Fortis performs 1st heart transplant

In a milestone surgery, doctors at Fortis Malar Hospital successfully performed a heart transplant – a first for a Fortis Hospital in India.

NPHCDA appoints 6 new Directors

NPHCDA appoints 6 new Directors

SIX new Directors have been appointed by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) following their success in a recent competitive public service recruitment exercise.

NAFDAC seeks life jail for counterfeiters

NAFDAC seeks life jail for counterfeiters

The long wait by Nigerians to see drug counterfeiters face stricter punishment as drug counterfeiting becomes non-bailable, may soon become reality if a Draft Bill being sponsored by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) gets the nod from the National Assembly, just as the Agency has threatened impose severe sanctions on Fast Food Restaurants utilising expired products food preparation.

US forensic experts, LASUCOM to address unresolved homicides

US forensic experts, LASUCOM to address unresolved homicides

Towards helping to address the worrisome incidence of unresolved murder cases, missing persons, unidentified bodies and other numerous issues of homicide in Lagos State and Nigeria as a whole, a team of researchers and experts in forensic investigations from the University of South Florida in the United States of America,is collaborating with medical experts at the Lagos State University College of Medicine (LASUCOM), Ikeja.