A House member says the House will support a drive to privatize and commercialize federal teaching hospitals to improve efficiency and the delivery of health care.
The Chairman of the House Committee on Health, Amos Magaji, who represents Zangon Kataf/Jaba...
Juliana Innocent lives in Unwaba-Oju, a village in Otahe Ward of Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State in the north-central region of Nigeria. Accessing health services for Mrs Innocent and other residents of Unwaba-Oju is difficult as there...
The Medical Women Association of Nigeria (NWAN) and other stakeholders have called for collaboration among medical professionals to strengthen healthcare delivery in the country.
The experts made this call on Thursday in Abuja at the association’s Women in Medicine, Health...
As part of efforts to revitalize Nigeria’s health sector, President Bola Tinubu signed an Executive Order aimed at boosting local production of health products and reducing costs.
Targeted healthcare products include pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, devices such as needles and syringes, biologics,...
Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, says the state government will designate one of its general hospitals as an eye specialist centre to improve care for patients with eye diseases.
Abayomi said this during the fourth annual general meeting...
Founder and CEO of the Mollluma Yakubu Centre for Medical Law, Gloria Ballason, has called for urgent legislative reforms to ensure justice for victims of medical negligence in Nigeria.
She and other lawyers made the call on Thursday in Abuja...
Two cases and 118 suspected cases of cholera have been confirmed in Katsina state, northwest Nigeria.
The state Primary Health Care Development Agency said the suspected cases were recorded in different local government areas of the state while the two...
As Nigeria continues to battle the wave of cholera sweeping many parts of the country, the Coordinating Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, has called on state authorities to end open defecation in their respective jurisdictions.
Pate said...
In a brief ceremony, the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation presented checks totaling almost $2 million to the World Food Program and the Nigerian Red Cross.
Funding was provided by the Economic Community of West African States...
The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, has explained some of the reasons for the delay in Nigeria's efforts to manufacture vaccines locally.
Pate, speaking Wednesday morning while appearing on a Channels Television programme, said the country...
