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NHIS seeks access into 120m phone lines for mobile health insurance
The National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, has requested for the data of about 120 million mobile lines in the country to enable it accelerate the effectiveness of mobile health insurance
Nigeria launches policy for hepatitis control
Nigeria’ ministry of health has launched a new National Policy for the control of Viral Hepatits. The new policy was launched in Abuja, recently, just as the country joined the
Africa advances toward a polio-free continent
11 August 2015 marks 1 year since the last wild polio case was detected on the entire African continent. A polio-free Africa would leave only 2 countries where polio transmission
Hard times here for healthcare, says former NMA boss
Immediate past President of Nigerian Medical Association and current Vice President, West Africa region of the Commonwealth Medical Association, Dr. Osahon Enabulele, took a look at Nigeria’s dwindling oil fortunes
How misdiagnosis sends Nigerians to early grave
Ibilola Essien, a lawyer and wife of ace radio broadcaster, George Essien, is lucky to be alive. In July last year, she developed a severe abdominal pain and was rushed
Experts decry low cure rate of cancer in Nigeria
* Situation worse in children * Patient abandonment rife due to high cost of treatment Six-year-old Oyinade Awelewa is completely blind and disfigured in one eye. Her doctors, consultant paediatrician,
HIV/AIDS: Nigerians ignore anti-discrimination law
Tired, frail from starvation and sorrow, 28-year old HIV positive Vivian Onyebueke looked so despondent when NHO visited her. Her life and joy seem to have faded the moment news
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