Monthly Archive: October 2018
The Nigerian Heart Foundation, NHF, has unfolded plans to launch a massive awareness on cardiovascular disease in Nigeria and Africa at large with a view to promoting preventive measures aimed at reducing high mortality...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed three new cases of Lassa fever in Ondo State, including a health worker with two new deaths. Also, it said that a monkey pox case...
The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta was established on 1st January, 1988. It has attained a position of eminence in various Agricultural Sciences, Natural Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, Engineering and Management Sciences. The...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it’s working out strategies to better combat air pollution and its effect on health currently causing over seven million deaths the world over, annually. The organization, on its...
RE: TRAINING OF QUACKS/ILLEGAL NURSING INSTITUTIONS IN EDO STATE At the meeting of the Edo state Nursing Council Committee held on 19th October, 2018, a review was made of the training of quacks and...
The University Graduates of Nursing Science Association (UGONSA) has once again taken the management of the Imo State University Teaching Hospital (IMSUTH) to task over its non implementation of internship and placement of graduate...
Members of the newly elected National Executive Committee of the Association of Hospital and Administrative Pharmacists of Nigeria (AHAPN) led by the National Chairman, Dr. Kingsley Chiedu Amibor paid a courtesy call on the...
A man suspected to be a quack doctor has been arrested for allegedly carrying out an abortion that led to the death of an undergraduate medical student of the University of Maiduguri. The suspect,...
Worried by the alarming level of charlatans and quacks in the medical profession, the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has appealed to the police for a rescue. NMA also appealed to other security agencies to...
The 2018 average life expectancy for Nigerians is now 55 years, a global data shows. According to the latest World Health Organisation, WHO, data published for 2018 life expectancy in Nigeria, a male given...