A 24-year-old lady, Annastasia Michael, has written an open letter to the daughter of Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Sonia, offering to donate one of her kidneys to save her life. This is coming after the 25-year-old Sonia Ekweremadu made an appeal to members of the public to donate a kidney to save her life. Responding […]
Prof. Taiwo Obindo, President, Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria (APN), says that more than 60 million Nigerians are suffering from mental illnesses. Obindo, who is also the Chairman, Faculty of Psychiatry, West African College of Physicians, Nigeria Chapter, said this in an interview with the Newsmen on Sunday in Abuja. “Mental healthcare is in […]
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has attributed drug abuse to most cases of mental problems among young people. This is even as he said the future of Nigeria depends on the younger generation, hence, the need to rid them of harmful substances that could hinder them from achieving their goals and dreams. […]
President Muhammadu Buhari speaks at the State House while receiving members of the Nigeria Medical Association On August 9, 2022. Sunday Aghaeze/State House The Federal Government has disbursed a total of N100 billion to indigenous pharmaceutical manufacturers and healthcare investors as loans to expand their capital base and boost local production of medicines and medical […]
The Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has called off its strike. The union had embarked on a strike on June 22 over the non-payment of welfare packages. Auwalu Kiyawa, Lagos state chairman of the union, had announced the strike, […]
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Monday said its members in Abia State have been on strike for almost a year over unpaid salaries. President of the association, Dr Dare Ishaya, disclosed this during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily. He criticised the Abia State Government for owing resident doctors their […]
A 66-year-old man, who prefers to remain anonymous, has reportedly been cured of HIV after undergoing a stem cell transplant. According to a statement by the City of Hope medical center, US, where the procedure took place, the man has been in remission from the virus for over 17 months after stopping antiretroviral therapy […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, (centre) over the weekend following his recent successful surgery at the Duchess International Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos (L -R Dr. Tokunbo Shitta-Bey, hospital CEO, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo, the Vice President & his Chief Personal Physician Dr. Nic Audifferen) Photo: Tolani Alli Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has expressed his deep […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the monkeypox outbreak is more prevalent among men who have sex with men. Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, said this on Saturday at a media briefing where he declared the multi-country monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of global concern. “So, in short, we have an outbreak that has […]
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has called on political office holders to emulate Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo by seeking medical treatment in the country. According to NAN, Uche Ojinmah, the association’s national president, said this in a ‘Get-Well Wish’ message on Monday in Abuja. TheCable had reported that Osinbajo underwent surgery over a “recurrent pain […]
