Health

The Federal Government will recover millions of Naira wrongly paid to 588 medical doctors across the country.

...Africans who previously saw traditional medicine as inferior to orthodox ones often resort to it when the latter fail to cure their ailment.

The Hope for Communities and Children Initiative (H4CC), an NGO, has distributed 150 dignity kits to vulnerable adolescent girls in Kaduna.

...latest situation report from Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) released on Aug. 10, indicated a total number of 33,661 suspected cases including 938 deaths in 22 states and FCT.

“The resurface of the Poliovirus type 2 necessitated the immediate flag off of the first Round Outbreak Response for Oral Polio Vaccine,” Isa said.

Olori Ogunwusi made the appeal while presenting gift items to new mothers and their newly delivered babies at the Sckye Hospitals, in Akure, Ondo state capital.

Police are investigating the nurse's actions at a vaccination centre in Friesland, near the North Sea coast.

Dr Ali Inname, Sokoto State Commissioner for Health, on Tuesday confirmed the death of 24 family members after eating some poisonous food. The commissioner said in a statement that the incident occurred on Monday in Danzanke village of Bargaja ward of Isa Local Government Area of Sokoto State. He explained that the incident was caused by use of a fertiliser ...

PATIENTS seeking attention in public medical facilities in Abuja,have embraced private health centres, following the ongoing industrial action by medical doctors in the country under the aegis of National Association of Resident Doctors,NARD. Majority of the patients who were already on admission in most of the public health facilities before the strike broke out have been moved out to private ...

There is an estimated 16,800 resident doctors in Nigeria, which represents about 40% of the 42, 000 total registered doctors in the country.