IT was a day of festive fun on Saturday June 6, 2009 at the Murhi Okunlola Park, Victoria Island, Lagos, when the Bridge Clinic, a leading fertility clinic in Lagos, organised a children’s party to herald its success 10th year of successful assisted reproductive interventions in the form of IVF.

It is indisputable that women in the country are dying before, during or after childbirth. The lamentation of unnecessary loss of lives has been on for so long it is beginning to sound like a broken record.

WHEN the 62nd World Health Assembly opened at the Palais de Nations in Geneva Switzerland on May 18, 2009, one of the major health concerns of international interest, besides the (then) looming H1N1 influenza (swine flu) pandemic, was the race towards global target for eradication of poliomyelitis.

Staff of MTN Nigeria last week embarked on series of community-based activities under the company’s annual staff volunteerism programme, tagged “21 Days of Y’ello Care”. The exercise, which is the 3rd edition is expected to take place in all its 21 operations in Africa, Asia and the Middle East simultaneously.

As the 3rd Round of the National Immunization Days ended last week In Lagos State, Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor, Pharm. Toyin Hamzat declared that the statistics on Wild Polio Virus (WPV) in the country is not yet cheering.