The Lagos State Government has launched an Incident Command System as part of efforts to prevent an outbreak of the fast-spreading Coronavirus in the state. While launching the Incident Command System, the governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said the measure is…
BY LAZ UDE EZE | Today is World Cancer Day – a day set aside by cancer advocates globally to raise global awareness, improve education and catalyse individual and government actions towards cancer control. I have been reflecting on the cancer situation…
By Ijeoma Ukazu | The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi has dismissed a misinformation making the rounds especially on social media that a case of novel CoronaVirus has been recorded in the State stating that there is…
After altering his looks and taking psychiatric lessons every day for one week, investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO went undercover for three weeks in November, including 10 straight days on ward admission, as a patient of the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos,…
For two weeks, TEMITAYO AYETOTO embedded herself with patients at the accident and emergency centres of two of Nigeria’s biggest tertiary hospitals, LUTH and LASUTH. In the second installation of this two-part series, she reveals how patients’ wait for never-available…
Editor’s Note : This is BUSINESSDAY INVESTIGATION LEAD STORY For two weeks, TEMITAYO AYETOTO embedded herself with patients at the accident and emergency centres of two of Nigeria’s biggest tertiary hospitals, LUTH and LASUTH. She uncovers how a lack of bed space leaves patients stranded at…
By Ijeoma Ukazu | The main role of primary health care is to provide continuous and comprehensive care to persons who seek care. However, in order to guarantee that patients get these comprehensive care, health stakeholders have called for urgent…
The Embassy of Japan has partnered with Street To School Initiative, a nongovernmental organization, to provide primary healthcare centre for residents of Surulere Community and Agbado/Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area. The health centre was inaugurated by the Charge d’Affaires at…
Youths have urged the Nigerian government and stakeholders in the health sector to create more intervention programs for young people living in marginalized communities especially on HIV prevention. The call was made at a One-Day Community Outreach held on the…
By Ijeoma Ukazu The National President, Association of Psychiatrists of Nigeria (APN), Dr. Taiwo Sheikh has blamed the high incidents of suicide in Nigeria on lack of prevention strategies and programmes by the government. Sheikh made the assertion at the…
