As Nigeria joined the rest of the world to mark this year’s World Oral Day, observers have rated oral health in the country poorly. Lagos State House Committee Chairman on Health, Hon. Samuel Adejare who gave hard knocks to oral healthcare in Nigeria said the culture of dental care in Nigeria is appalling and chided Nigerians for not exhibiting good oral hygiene.

A s part of efforts to ensure the full utilisation of the potentials of radiology services for better turn over in the nation’s health sector, there is need for the industry to transit from film to digital radiography. Intensive training of new radiologists has also been deemed necessary as a way of bridging the manpower shortage in the industry.

Nigerians have been urged to rededicate themselves to personal and communal hygiene as the popular slogan, ‘health is wealth’ is not just theoretical but real even as MTN Foundation kicked- off MTN Foundation Partners against Malaria & AIDS (MTNF-PAMAC) in Lagos.

EVERY year, no less than 8,000 Nigerian women die as a result cancer of the cervix – a preventable disorder that has huge physical, emotional and psychological burden on the individual, family and society at large.

Eight months after their birth at the Olabisi Olabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Shagamu, the three surviving babies of the set of sextuplets born to Amudat Bello were last week handed by the management of the hospital to the SOS Village, Owu-Ikija.