By Eze Onyekpere | There are so many challenges with the federal health budget proposal for the year 2023. If approved by the National Assembly in its current form and substance, Nigeria’s health indicators may worsen and the expenditure will…
Abudu A. Olalekan | The United Nations (UN) is calling on countries to create an enabling environment for People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) to have equal access to medical treatments. The call to action according to the UN Secretary-General, António…
Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has said that a new health reform bill that will reset the country’s health sector for better delivery of its aims to Nigerians will soon be ready. The Vice President made this known…
The Executive Secretary of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib, has said that the country needs about 21.6 million vaccination coverage to achieve the 70% benchmark target by December 2022. Shuaib disclosed this in an…
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has disclosed that the country is left with only 10,000 resident doctors due poor working conditions in some of the hospitals. Dr Emeka Orji, President of NARD made this known in an interview…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has disclosed that Monkeypox will be renamed mpox. The decision according to the agency on Monday is to avoid stigmatisation steaming from the existing name. Monkeypox received its name because the virus was originally identified…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has warned that COVID-19 infection may rise as the holiday season approaches. The projected rise in cases of the virus will emanate from the increase in travel over the holiday season. This was…
Gwarzo Local Government Area, Kano State has targeted to vaccinate about 9,926 children against yellow fever in the area. The primary health care coordinator of the local government, Mr. Isyaku Hamza, whotdisclosed this at a review meeting of the exercise…
No fewer than 178 persons have died of Lassa fever and cases reach 989 so far this year, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (CDC). The Centre disclosed this in its week 46 report released on Friday. According…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has explained that nearly 40 million children were denied measles vaccination due to the production of COVID-19 vaccine in 2021. WHO disclosed this on Wednesday in a statement. According to the organisation, 25 million children…
