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Invest In Health Sector, Avert Industrial Action, NLC Tells FG

The Nigeria Labour Congress on Thursday called on the Federal Government to invest more in the natio…

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PCN shuts 440 pharmacies, stores in Gombe

No fewer than 440 pharmacies and patent medicine stores have been sealed across Gombe State by the P…

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PCN shuts 440 pharmacies, stores in Gombe

No fewer than 440 pharmacies and patent medicine stores have been sealed across Gombe State by the P…

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Group Seeks End To Protein-Deficiency Anaemia

The Federal Government has been called upon to urgently develop and implement a national protein-led…

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Invest More In HIV Prevention, Experts Tell FG

Experts have called on the federal government and other stakeholders to invest more prevention of HI…

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Implement 15% Budgetary Allocation To Health, NMA Tasks FG

Irked by the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nation’s health system, the Nigerian Medical Ass…

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Russia Records 346 Single Day Deaths From Coronavirus

Russia reported a national record number of deaths from the coronavirus in a single-day on Wednesday…

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‘Empower PHCs to Provide Mental Health Care’

A mental health advocate and founder of Heartrose Care Foundation, Mrs Esther Adekoya, has advised t…

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Assault: Delta Brokers Peace Between Army, NMA

The Delta State Government has resolved the row between the Nigeria Medical Association, Delta State…

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NHIS To Spend N191.7m On Maternal-Child Health Project

The National Health Insurance Scheme has proposed to spend the sum of N191.7m on a maternal and chil…

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Nigeria Must Sustain Immunisation To Keep Polio At Bay, Say NPHCDA, WHO

World Health Organisation (WHO) and National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) have ur…

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26 Women Die Of Cervical Cancer Disease Everyday In Nigeria – Director UICC

The Director of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), Dr Zainab Shinkafi – Bagudu, says…

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Peru Detects First Case Of Diphtheria Virus After 20 Years

Peru has launched a national epidemiological alert after detecting its first case of diphtheria in 2…

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Pharmacists Canvass Modern Healthcare System

As COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt medical services, the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (P…

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‘Cancer Kills 26 Persons Daily In Nigeria’

Wife of the Kebbi State Governor and board member of the General Assembly for Union International Ca…

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Maersk Seals Deal On Shipping COVID-19 Vaccine In 2021

Maersk has sealed a deal to ship over one billion doses of COVAXX synthetic peptide-based vaccine gl…

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COVID-19: NCDC Confirms 3 New Deaths, 113 New Infections In Nigeria

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has confirmed 113 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19)…

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65,185 Persons Living With HIV/Aids In Akwa Ibom – Survey

A survey conducted by a non-governmental organisation, Strengthening Integrated Delivery of HIV/AIDS…

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Mother, Daughter Eulogise LASUTH After Life-Saving Heart Surgery

A woman, Mrs Harriet Iziehi, whose daughter had a successful open heart surgery at the Lagos State U…

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NAFDAC Blacklists Indian Company For Manufacturing Falsified Medicines Falsified

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has blacklisted Ma…

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