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 […]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Kano State says it arrested 352 suspects, dealing in hard-drug, between January and March. The NDLEA Commander in the state, Mr Abubakar Idris-Ahmad, announced this to newsmen in Kano. Idris-Ahmad said the agency also seized 2.1 tonnes of illicit drugs in Kano State. According to him, the […]
The Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG), on Thursday, inaugurated the Occupational Therapy and Neuromodulation Rehabilitation Centre at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), Kano under its Hospital Support Programme (HSP) Phase 1 projects. The NewsZenith reports that the company had, on Monday, started the new round of project inaugurations with the opening of a 120-bed Obstetrics […]
A former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, have been convicted of organ trafficking in the United Kingdom. A jury found that Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56 and their “medical middleman” Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, were guilty of a conspiracy to bring a young man to Britain to give his kidney. […]