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UNICEF raises alarm over unprecedented diphtheria outbreak
Urges urgent vaccination In the midst of the most severe diphtheria outbreak in recent global history, UNICEF Nigeria is sounding the alarm about the urgent need for widespread vaccination. The
24m Nigerians have visual impairment
FG approves initiative to provide 5m glasses The Federal Government, has expressed concerns over more than 24 million Nigerians who are grappling with varying degrees of visual impairments. Expressing worry, President Bola Tinubu has declared his unwavering support for a partnership between the Federal Ministry of Health’s National Eye Health
Lagos Health Commissioner, Special Adviser assume duties
Seek support, collaboration of stakeholders The newly sworn-in Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, and the Special Adviser to the Governor on Health, Dr. Oreoluwa Finnih-Awokoya yesterday assumed duties, pledging to work with all stakeholders to revamp, remodel, reposition, and repurpose the State health sector to be the
NAFDAC warns against buying drugs from open markets
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned that drugs sold in open market are poisonous and dangerous to human health. Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, the NAFDAC Director-General gave the warning at the North-Central media sensitisation workshop on the dangers of drug hawking and ripening of
Anthrax: Look out for the meat that you buy
Dr Ifedayo Adetifa is the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC. In this interview with Vanguard Newspaper, Adetifa speaks on the case of anthrax discovered in
UNICEF raises alarm over unprecedented diphtheria outbreak
Urges urgent vaccination In the midst of the most severe diphtheria outbreak in recent global history, UNICEF Nigeria is sounding the alarm about the urgent need for widespread vaccination. The
PSN worries over rate of members leaving Nigeria
The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, (PSN), has expressed worry over the rate its members are leaving the country for greener pastures. Chairman of the association, Osun State chapter, Prof Moses