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1000 Indigent Lagosians Get Free Medical Treatment

They trooped   into one o f the largest halls in Ochaid hotel, Lekki, Lagos, in twos , t…

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Lagoon Hospitals Unveils New Equipment

As part of efforts to continue providing superior healthcare services and reduce medical tourism, …

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Ekiti Raises Task Force to Curb Quackery

The Ekiti State Commissioner for Health, Dr Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, has expressed the readiness of t…

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Sanwo-Olu Seeks End to Medical Tourism

The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has stressed the need for private sector particip…

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HIV/AIDS Treatment: Women Group Seeks Reduction in Age Consent

A coalition of women under the aegis of International Community of Women Living with HIV (West Afr…

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Anambra Gets Cancer Detection Machine for Women

The Eldorado Multi-Specialist Hospital premises were filled with men, women, young and old, who ca…

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Medical Council Inducts 412 Doctors

he Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) has granted 412 foreign-trained Nigerian doctors t…

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Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern

WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today declared the Ebola virus disease (EVD) o…

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Ekiti Moves to End Maternal, Child Deaths

The Commissioner for Health in Ekiti State, Dr Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, said on Wednesday that the st…

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Tuberculosis Kills 120,000 Nigerians Annually — FG

The Federal Government, on Wednesday, raised the alarm over the high rate of deaths caused by tube…

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Suicide: Experts Urge National Assembly to Pass Mental Health Bill

Amidst the rising wave of suicide in the country, mental health experts have urged the National As…

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Anambra Doctors Suspend Strike

Resident doctors of the Anambra State-owned Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospit…

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NMA Laments Growing Quackery in Medical Profession

The Nigerian Medical Association, Oyo State chapter, on Wednesday, lamented the growing menace of …

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Ekiti Pledges Urgent Attention to Hospitals

Ekiti State Government has said it will speedily attend to infrastructure, equipment and personnel…

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Technology Key to Quality Health Care Delivery – Sanwo-Olu

The wife of the Lagos State Governor, Dr Ibironke Sanwo-Olu, has said technology is important in p…

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Buhari to NMA: Security Still Tops My Agenda for the Country

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja said successes recorded in degrading terrorists in the…

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TCF to Address Challenges of Blindness with 15,000 Subsidised Surgeries Yearly

The burden of total blindness and vision impairment in Nigeria could witness drastic reduction as …

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New NHIS Boss Unveils Three-Point Agenda to Revive Scheme

Determined to revive the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), the newly appointed Executive Se…

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Customs Intercepts Ambulance with N2.8m Worth of Tramadol

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Apapa Command, yesterday said that it intercepted an ambulance …

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Experts Alert to Rising Cholera, Lassa fever Cases, Others

As the rainy season peaks with imminent flooding in some states, experts have alerted to further r…

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