By Adeyemi Olusoga Things seems to be going from bad to worse in Nigeria’s health sector as it has been revealed that medical doctors are daily leaving Nigeria with only about 10,000 personnel remaining in the country, according to the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, (NARD) According to data, Nigeria ...
By Editor, Sokoto Fatimah Buba did not get to see her son. He was taken away after his birth, out of the labour room into the morgue after which he was buried. He was a stillbirth. His birth had been long and hard in coming. For two days, Fatimah labored ...
From Elohor Igbru, Abuja No fewer than 36 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in the country, InfantNG learnt. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC disclosed this in its latest monkeypox situation report. According to the NCDC, the disease has been confirmed in Lagos (7), Adamawa (5), Delta (3), ...
By Elohor Igbru, Abuja The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of India today signed an agreement to establish the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine. This global knowledge centre for traditional medicine, supported by an investment of USD 250 million from the Government of India, aims to harness ...
By InfactNG Two hundred and eight (208) million people still openly defecate in Africa, according to United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)/World Health Organisation (WHO) special report focused on Africa. Besides, 839 million are said to be deprived of basic hygiene services. The report also revealed that 418 million people still ...
By Admin In a statement released by WHO yesterday, this is the first time the virus would be confirmed in West Africa and it is coming less than two months after Guinea declared an end to Ebola in that country. The virus was confirmed from a now deceased patient at a ...
By Ademola Adeleye Fears of a new deadly spread of the coronavirus in Africa is spreading even as vaccination drops to a halt in the continent. The situation has led to the exposure of front line workers and other vulnerable people to the disease. Shipment of the vaccines from COVAX ...
