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NARD backs OAUTHC doctors’ indefinite strike, warns against victimisation

NARD backs OAUTHC doctors’ indefinite strike, warns against victimisation

By Chioma Obinna The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Tuesday threw its weight behind the ongoing indefinite strike by the Association of Resident Doctors at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, warning hospital authorities against any attempt to intimidate or punish affected doctors. The solidarity declaration follows an emergency meeting by the OAUTHC […]
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Accolades for Close Up’s Brush Day & Night campaign

Accolades for Close Up’s Brush Day & Night campaign

The ongoing Close Up Brush Day and Night campaign aimed at changing the poor oral hygiene habits of Nigerians as well as encourage brushing day and night has been applauded by the heads of Primary Schools visited by the Social Mission crew, which is commissioned for the pan-Nigeria activations in 600 schools across the country. The crew has already visited schools in Lagos, Imo and Kano States.

36 States seek National polio day …as LASG flags off SNIDs

36 States seek National polio day …as LASG flags off SNIDs

As Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State kicked off another round of the Sub-National Immunization Plus Days (SNIDs)in Lagos weekend, said that all the 35 Governors in Nigeria are working out the modality of setting aside a special day for the marking of polio.

Field hospital braces up Eko Free Health Mission

Field hospital braces up Eko Free Health Mission

Integration of the newly procured Field Hospital into the Lagos State Eko Free Health Mission is yielding fruis if the expression of less privileged Nigerians who converged at the premises of Araromi Primary School, Achakpo Road, Ajegunle in the Ajeromi/Ifelodun Local Government Area seeking for free medical services, was anything to go by last week.

Make diabetes care more accessible and affordable, FG told

Make diabetes care more accessible and affordable, FG told

Even as the Changing Diabetes Care in Nigeria Summit opens in Lagos today at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, the Diabetes Association of Nigeria is joining voices with the African Diabetes Declaration and Strategies to call on the Federal Governemnt to establish policies that would make management and care of diabetes in the country more affordable and accessible.

Proliferation of fake drugs:  Pharmacists call for national emergency

Proliferation of fake drugs: Pharmacists call for national emergency

THE Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has raised alarm over the proliferation of fake and substandard drugs in the country and is calling on President Umar Yar’Adua to declare a national emergency in the nation’s drug industry in the interest of national wellbeing and security.