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Uganda Declares End to Ebola Outbreak

Uganda on Wednesday declared an end to an Ebola virus outbreak that emerged almost four months ago a…

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Lagos Engages Private Firms for Hospitals’ Inspection

The Health Facilities Monitoring and Accreditation Agency has said it has outsourced its inspection …

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Edo Warns Residents as Lassa Fever Cases Rise

Edo State has recorded three more confirmed cases of Lassa fever, raising the total number of confir…

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Doctors’ Exit, Global Challenge Not Peculiar to Nigeria — Ehanire

The continuous migration of Nigerian doctors into other climes in search of better remunerations is …

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Lassa Fever Kills Medical Doctor in Nasarawa

Lassa fever has killed a medical doctor, Ahmed Isaiah, attached to Garaku General Hospital in Kokona…

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Resident Doctors Write Govt on Impending Nationwide Strike

National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has written the Federal Government over unresolved i…

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FG Considers Performance-Based Wages for Health Workers

Worried about the relocation of healthcare professionals, especially doctors, nurses and pharmacists…

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Edo Holds Meetings in Seven Councils Over Lassa Fever

Edo State Government, as part of efforts to curb spread of Lassa fever and ensure the health and saf…

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‘150 Nurses Resigned from LASUTH in Three Years’

Lagos partners eight firms to check quackery in hospitals, ensure standardLagos State University Tea…

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Report Lists 345 Attacks on Doctors

No fewer than 345 incidents of violence against Nigerian doctors were reported in 2022, The NAN repo…

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COVID-19: 64 Million Nigerians Fully Vaccinated, Says NPHCDA

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency has said that over 64 million eligible persons i…

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Lassa Fever Cases Rise To 1,067, Says NCDC

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has said that 72 per cent of all confirmed cas…

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Nigeria Alert Amid Concerns Over New COVID-19 Variants

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), yesterday, at a press conference in Abuja, said over …

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Lassa Fever Claimed 189 Lives In 2022 – NCDC

The death toll from the Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria in 2022 was 189, according to a situation re…

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NARD Laments Unpaid 1,600 Resident Doctors’ Training Fund

No fewer than 1,600 members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors from over 30 health faci…

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NARD Demands CMDs’ Sanction Over Attacks on Workers

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has said that the Chief Medical Director or Medical Dir…

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Africa Reported 1,200 Mpox Cases, Nigeria Leads – WHO

The World Health Organisation has said  Nigeria is leading the pack of African countries with mpox i…

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Council Scraps Remedial Programme for Nursing

The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria has cancelled remedial programmes in nursing training i…

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2000 Residents Benefit from Edo Free Medical Outreach

The Edo State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Obehi Akoria, has said that about 2000 residents have b…

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COVID-19 Surge: Health Workers Demand Travel Restriction

Disturbed by the resurgence of COVID-19 in China, medical bodies in the country have expressed worry…

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