By Oluwafunke Ishola A Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Prof. Oladipo Adewole, says clubfoot deformity is treatable, warning parents against abandoning such children at villages or prayer mountains. Adewole, Head, Orthopaedic and Trauma Department, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), said this in an interview with the News Agency ofContinue Reading
By Lilian U. Okoro The Institute of Health Service Administrators of Nigeria (IHSAN) has called on government at all levels to prioritise the welfare and conditions of service of Nigerian health workers to enhance their performance. Mrs Rosemary Archibong, the National President of IHSAN, made the call at theContinue Reading
By Folasade Akpan The Chief Executive of Malaria Consortium, Dr James Tibenderana, says Nigeria has made huge progress in reducing malaria prevalence but a huge number of the population are still at risk of the disease. Tibenderana said this on Wednesday in Abuja during a media conference to mark theContinue Reading
By Christian Njoku The Nigerian Association of Medical Physicists (NAMP) has appealed to President Bola Tinubu and the National Assembly (NASS) to support the passage of the Medical Physics Regulatory Council (Establishment) Bill, 2022. The President of NAMP, Prof. Fatai Balogun, made the appeal during the association’s 2023 Annual ScientificContinue Reading
By Justina Auta Stakeholders have called for strengthening of legal framework and policies to protect young people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) access employment opportunities in the country. They made the call at the youth pre-conference session, organised by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and Youth Network on HIV/AIDS inContinue Reading
By Folasade Akpan The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) says health must be viewed as an investment and a catalyst for economic growth. The group’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Designate, Mr Tayo Aduloju, said this in Abuja during a media conference. According to Aduloju, evidence suggests that in developing countriesContinue Reading
By Folasade Akpan Federal Government has developed an electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System (eCRVS) and a Geospatial Data Repository to boost birth, death and other registrations, Chairman, National Population Commission (NPC), Alhaji Nasir Kwarra, says. He made this known at a news conference in Abuja, adding that the effortContinue Reading
By Franca Ofili The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said on Monday that it would enhance the capability of the Agulu and Kaduna NAFDAC laboratories for the quality of medicinal products. Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, Director General of NAFDAC, said this in Abuja on Monday atContinue Reading
By Abiemwense Moru, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Nigeria is no stranger to vaccine controversy. Some two decades ago, health authorities in the country had to contend with the rejection of the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) in many parts of the country. Rumour mill had it that the Wild PolioContinue Reading
By Blessing Odega/Nicholas Dechi Some Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), and other stakeholders, have fingered insecurity and lack of funding as responsible for the ineffective operations of Primary Health Care Centres (PHCs), in parts of North Central. Some of the stakeholders, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in separateContinue Reading
