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.

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.

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.

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.

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.