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Lack Of Medical Check Up By Nigerians Result To Untimely Death…..Rotary Club
The Rotary International on Friday said some of the human collapses or deaths is as a result of lack of medical checks on their health status by Nigerians especially as it has to do with their livers.
The Chairman of Hepatitis…
Shippers Council Boss Tasks Media Practitioners To Embrace Healthcare Insurance Scheme
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), Barrister Hassan Bello on Wednesday, tasked media practitioners to embark on healthcare insurance scheme for employees.
Bello who spoke at a Colloquium in honour of Late…
Pastor who laid hands on the sick, becomes first person to die of ebola in DR Congo’s largest city
The first ebola patient in Goma, the biggest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been reported dead, days after he got infected with the deadly ebola virus.
According to the DRC’s health ministry, the…
NDLEA Partners Shippers ‘ Council To Curb Influx Of Tramadol Importation
As part of effort to stop the smuggling of Tramadol and other illicit drugs into the country, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it would collaborate with the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) to curb the influx of such…
NDLEA Bemoans Dearth Of Rehabilitation Centres In Borno State
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has bemoaned the dearth of rehabilitation Centre in Borno despite the alarming rate of drug abuse especially among the internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the state.
The…
EBOLA: Health Workers Decry Poor Services At Port,Says Only One Doctor ,Two Ambulances Available
The Director, Port Health Services, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos Dr. Morenike Alex-Okoh, has decried the poor service at the port saying they had only one medical doctor with two ambulances.
Alex-Okon…
Expert Says 40million Nigerians Currently Live With Sickle Cell Disease
The Chief Medical Science Laboratory, Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Barnawa, Kaduna, Abdullahi Musa Maikano has said 40million Nigerians currently live with sickle cell diseases .
The medical expert also said the figure place…
ACPN Dismisses Claims On 70% Fake Drugs In Circulation
Pharmacists under the auspices of Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) have debunked claims of an alarm on the dangers of recent rumours making rounds that fake drugs circulation in the country has increased to about 70…
INSECURITY: Medical Doctors Threaten To Withdraw Service Over Spate Of Kidnapping
Medical doctors are warming up to withdraw their services in Cross River State over incessant kidnappings of their colleagues.
The chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association in the state, Dr Agam Ayuk and the secretary, Dr…
Health Workers Threaten Industrial Action Over Unpaid Two Months Arrears
Health workers under the aegis of , National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) and Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have vowed to embark on industrial action if their members were not paid their two-month salary arrears.…