Monthly Archive: November 2018
Relatives yesterday began to withdraw their sick ones from the Enugu State University of Science Teaching Hospital (ESUT-Parklane) as resident doctors attached to the facility embarked on a one-week warning strike over non-payment of...
When I arrived in Australia – in Cooktown of all places – one of my biggest challenges was understanding the accent and the slang. I also struggled with basic expressions. I remember being invited...
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has attributed poor remuneration and inadequate health facilities as some of the major reasons for mass exodus of medical doctors. Dr Ekpe Phillips, the FCT Chapter NMA Chairman, said...
The government is set to relax its immigration rules to let more foreign doctors come to Britain to help tackle the NHS’s widespread shortages of medics, the Guardian can reveal. Ministers have agreed to...
The Chairman of Echo Lab Radiology and Laboratory Services, Dr Benson Cole, has said that the expansion of diagnostic services in the country will solve the problem of medical tourism. Cole made the statement...
The Lagos State AIDS Control Agency, LSACA, said it has put in place measures to ensure that 90 percent of Persons Living With HIV/AIDS in the State know their status by 2020. Chief Executive...
Towards safeguarding the health of state, the Ondo State has warned residents of the state of yellow fever outbreak in several parts of the country. In a Press statement, the Commissioner for health Dr....
The Bayelsa State Government has described the high rate of maternal and perinatal deaths in the state as a recurring nightmare saying the healthcare system in the country was weak. The Commissioner for Health,...
Dr Joe Ugwu, a Neurologist with a private Hospital in Abuja, on Thursday said excessive sitting could lead to cardiovascular diseases and early mortality. Ugwu told news men in Abuja that sitting was a...
WORRIED by the level of alcohol induced road traffic crashes, the Lagos State Government and Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, have raised concerns over alcohol consumption across the state. The concern was raised at...