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Cholera kills 40 Congolese in Overcrowded Uganda Refugee Camps – Aid Agencies

A cholera outbreak in overcrowded refugee camps in Uganda has killedn40 people and infected more t…

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NCDC and State Surveillance Teams Meet In Kano To Evaluate Response To Disease Outbreaks In Nigeria

Nigeria has faced many outbreaks in the last year. Each of these outbreaks provides an opportunity…

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We Haven’t Increased Childbirth Fee, Ondo Tells Protesting Women

…Says they were misled    The Ondo state government has denied hiking childbi…

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Nigeria has 302,096 Unreported TB Cases, Says Minister

There are 302,096 unreported cases of Tuberculosis (TB) cases in the country, the Minister of Heal…

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Flying Doctors Seek Regional Integration for Healthcare

There are advantages to regional integration of medical services in the West African sub-region, F…

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Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria Decry High Drugs Import

Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has decried the country’s reliance on imported pharm…

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ABUAD Hospital Gets Tele-medicine Equipment from Dubai Firm

The Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti Multi-System Hospital has partnered Aster DM Healthcare of …

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Missing N10bn: FG has Turned NHIS into ATM, Says PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party alleged in Abuja on Thursday, that the All Progressives Congress and …

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Doctors Threaten to Stop Attending to Lassa Fever Patients in Public Hospitals

Doctors in public hospitals may start refusing to attend to patients with Lassa fever, if they are…

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Pregnant Women Shut Down State Specialist Hospital Akure over Delivery Fees

Scores of pregnant women on Thursday shut down the Ondo State Specialist Hospital, Akure, in prote…

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Zamfara To Recruit 340 Doctors, Nurses And Midwives – Commissioner

Alhaji Lawal M-Liman, Zamfara Commissioner for Health said on Thursday that 340 health personnel i…

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Health Workers Task Government on Salary Arrears

The Katsina State Medical and Health Workers Union has called on the state government to pay the 1…

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Zamfara to Recruit 340 Doctors, Nurses – Commissioner

Alhaji Lawal M-Liman, Zamfara Commissioner for Health said on Thursday that 340 health personnel i…

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Health: Zamfara Establishes Emergency Operation Centres

The Zamfara State Government, on Thursday, in Gusau, said it had established emergency operation c…

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Lassa Fever Spreads to 20 States, Kills 142 with 400 Confirmed Cases

• NCDC confirms first case, fatality in Abia • Two health workers affected with one de…

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World Health Workers Week: Celebrating the Heroes that keep us Healthy

Going through the health system there are several stops, from the midwives to the counselor throug…

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15% of all Infertile Nigerian Men have no Sperm —Study

Men without sperm make up about 15 per cent of all infertile men in the reproductive age of father…

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US Surgeon Generals Advisory: More Should Carry Antidote To Counter Opioid Overdoses

The U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory Thursday urging more Americans to carry naloxone, whic…

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Lassa Fever: “Hold Buhari Responsible For Abia Doctor’s Death” – PDP Tells Nigerians

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Nigerians to hold President Muhammadu Buhari-led Fede…

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Nigeria Loses N300b Annually to Prevention, Treatment of Malaria

‎Nigeria loses an estimated N300 billion annually to treatment and prevention, including loss …

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