Middle East conflict, funding cuts push 30.4 million into humanitarian crisis — WHO
… 27 attacks on health care recorded in one month … Appeals for $6.42m to sustain lifesaving health services in Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti By Chioma Obinna The World Health Organization, WHO, has raised fresh alarm over a worsening humanitarian and public health crisis across the Eastern Mediterranean Region, warning that renewed conflict, disease outbreaks, food […]
Osotimehin seeks better response to epidemics
Health Minister Prof. Babatunde Oshotimehin has attributed poor and inadequate funding, poor political will as the major challenges facing the control of epidemic outbreak in the West African countries.
Help! Frank, 35, seeks N2m for bladder surgery
THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Frank Emeka Ozor, an Evangelist from Delta State needs help and needs it fast. Fortunes forthe fair-skinned man, who has been evangelising for a few years, suddenly took a turn for the worse during one of his evangelisations, when he was involved in a road traffic accident.
NNPC/Chevron collaborate with LASG to make medical waste disposal safer
ALL roads led to the sleepy town of Epe in Lagos State Thursday last week as people from far and near converged at the Epe General Hospital for a special event never before witnessed within the environs. It was the official dedication of the NNPC/Chevron Joint Venture medical incinerator project built in partnership with the Lagos State government.
NHS launches medical training prog on hypertension
As part of its campaign against hypertension, the Nigerian Hypertension Society (NHS) has launched its continuing medical education (CME) programme for doctors and other specialists who care for patients with hypertension in the country.
VVF: Expert tasks FG on management
THE high burden of mortality and morbidity of various forms of fistula amongst Nigerian women has become so worrisome that calls for urgent action to protect lives of those affected are being made.
