From Our Correspondent in Kano An eight-year-old girl, simply identified as Sharifa of Gadon Kaya Quarters, is currently recuperating at Mallam Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano following a stab wound in her stomach. A 35-year-old woman, Fatima Salisu, allegedly stabbed Shafiya. The Police, Kano Command, have, however, arrested Salisu and her husband for the crime. […]
The Ghanaian Government said, on Saturday it decided to further lift COVID-19 restrictions amid declining global and domestic trends for the infection. The West African country has witnessed a sustained decline in COVID-19 infections over the past five months. And based on the global and national situation, it decided to remove the remaining restrictions, the […]
The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, on Wednesday, launched a new campaign called “Eliminating mpox” to highlight the potential risk of a significant monkeypox (mpox) outbreak. Eliminating the mpox campaign means “placing affected populations at the heart of our response”. Although mpox is no longer public health emergency of international concern, recent […]
The Association of Residents Doctors (ARD), University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan has joined its national body on a five-day warning strike to demand better welfare and overhaul of healthcare system. Its chapter president, Dr Abiodun Ogundipe, announced this in an interaction with newsmen in Ibadan on Wednesday. Ogundipe said the strike bordered on repositioning Nigerian […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on countries to accelerate action to halve anaemia prevalence in women of reproductive age by 2025. In a statement, published on CNG Media on Saturday, WHO made the call while launching its first-ever comprehensive framework on reducing anaemia. “Progress on reducing anaemia has been slow and the world […]
The Biochemist Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BPAoN) says it is set to release test treatment for the cure of HIV/AIDS. This is coming after several years of clinical research on how to completely remove the existence of life-threatening viruses in the human body’s circulatory system. Ikotun Olayemi, President of BPAoN, disclosed this to newsmen in […]
Confirmed cases of measles are increasing in South Africa, now reaching 970 since its outbreak in October 2022, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Tuesday. NICD said 43 per cent of those infected are aged five to nine years. Twenty-four per cent are from one to four years and 20 per cent […]
By Our Correspondent in Abeokuta The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has given the Federal Government a two-week ultimatum to increase the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS). NARD gave the deadline in a communique issued at the end of its extraordinary meeting, held on Saturday in Abeokuta. The NewsZenith reports that NARD President, Secretary-General […]
Authorities from Botswana’s Ministry of Health and Wellness, on Friday, said they vaccinated 370,000 children aged seven years and below, against poliovirus type 2 (cVOPV2). Christopher Nyanga, the ministry spokesperson, said the vaccination campaigns ran from Feb. 23 to April 2 in all districts across the southern African country. “Health officials detected the cVOPV2 in […]
Nigeria has recorded more than 152 deaths from Lassa fever this year, according to latest statistics from the Nigeria Center for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC). NCDC reported 788 confirmed cases of Lassa fever across the country in 2023. It said new confirmed cases stood at nine in the current week from a peak of […]