Cholera, a waterborne bacterial infection, has continued to cast a long shadow over Nigeria’s public health…
Category: Health
NHIA to Review Medicine Tariff for Beneficiaries
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has declared its commitment to reviewing its medicine tariffs due…
Privatising Teaching Hospitals: What it means for Nigerians
In November 2014, the Federal Ministry of Health proposed a policy to privatise public health institutions,…
Update: NCDC May declare state of emergency on Cholera in Nigeria
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said, on Wednesday, it might declare an emergency…
Cholera Outbreak in Lagos: Five Dead, 60 Hospitalized
Five people have died and 60 hospitalizations have resulted from a severe Cholera outbreak in Lagos.…
FG sets aside N260bn to revitalise PHCs across Nigeria
The Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof Ali Pate has disclosed at the sectoral ministerial…
Aro psychiatric patients bite doctor, nurses during protest over ‘poor treatment’
Chaos erupted on Wednesday at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State,…
Women with too many children are prone to bleeding after delivery – Gynaecologists
Maternal experts have stated that deaths during pregnancy and after childbirth in Nigeria could be reduced…
