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47 Million Nigerians Practise Open Defecation - UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s  Fund says 47 million people representing 24  per ce…

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Groups Decry Alleged Police Harassment at Lagos Clinic

No fewer than 60 personalities and groups have criticised the police for allegedly harassing staff…

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Anambra Doctors Reject New Minimum Wage, Insist on Strike

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

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NAFDAC Seizes Fake Goods Worth N2.6m at Akanu Ibiam International Airport

The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has seized fake, sub-standa…

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LUTH Doctors Begin Two-day Warning Strike

Resident doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, yesterday protested …

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Primary, Secondary Health Centres Have Collapsed, Says Minister

The Federal Government on Tuesday said primary and secondary healthcare centres in the country hav…

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WHO: More Than 40,000 Children at Risk in the North-East

More than 40,000 children are at risk of dying in the north-east due to the combined threat of acu…

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Benue Hospital Records 7 Cases of Lassa fever in 2019

The Benue State Teaching Hospital (BSUTH) has recorded seven cases of Lassa fever in this year alo…

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Ogun Targets 1.2m Children for Polio Immunisation

Ogun Commissioner for Health, Dr Babatunde Ipaye, said on Tuesday that at least 1.2 million childr…

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NAFDAC Seizes N2.6m Fake Drugs, Products at Enugu Airport

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has seized fake drugs and unwhole…

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Five States Lock Horns with FG over Health Care Fund

The Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, has blamed the deplorable state of tertiary health ins…

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Drugs Intercepted by Police in Kano not Tramadol — NDLEA

The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency has said the recent drugs allegedly intercepted by the p…

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NMA Condemns Arrest of Doctor Who Attempted to Save Suicide Victim

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has condemned the alleged harassment and intimidation by th…

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FG’s Emergency Declaration on Public Health

A declaration of state of emergency on public health in the country recently by the National Prima…

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Deteriorating Health Care: Minister Indicts State Governors of Under-Funding Health Services

States governors must be held responsible for the deteriorating health care services in the countr…

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Health Minister Briefs Senate on State of Teaching Hospitals

Minister of Health, Professor Issac Adewole, on Tuesday, briefed Senate on the state of Federal Te…

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Malaria Cases Distracting us from our Primary Duties — UBTH

The Chief Medical Director of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Prof Darlington Obaseki, …

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Ekiti Seeks Collaboration Among Health Workers

The Commissioner for Health in Ekiti State, Dr Moji Yaya-Kolade, on Monday lamented the division a…

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CIAPS to Train Africa’s Health Managers

The Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies, a Lagos-based international gradua…

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12 Things that Predispose you to Dementia — WHO

About 50 million people across the world have dementia, an umbrella term for a series of neurodege…

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