By Ifeoluwaloju Ajirenike The Afe Babalola University Multi-System Hospital (AMSH), Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti, says it has carried out no fewer than 50 successful kidney transplants and surgeries. The health institution also announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Manipal Hospitals, India, to strengthen specialist healthcare delivery. Continue Reading
By Daniel Obaje The University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH), Gwagwalada, has began the extensive renovation of its Infectious disease centre. This is aimed at strengthening preparedness for public health emergencies and emerging disease outbreaks. Prof. Thairu Yunusa, Chief Medical Director of the hospital, made this known during an inspectionContinue Reading
By Victor Okoye Three Rotary clubs in Abuja on Wednesday donated medical equipment worth more than N30 million to Bethrapha Medical Centre, Wuye, to strengthen maternal and neonatal healthcare services. The donation, comprising 20 hospital crank beds, incubators and two phototherapy lights, was undertaken by the Rotary Club of AbujaContinue Reading
By Martha Agas The Ninzo Community Development Association (NCDA) has called for the equipping and staffing of the rural hospital in Fadan Ninzo community of Sanga Local Government Area (LGA) in Kaduna. The association’s President, Prof. Aku Amboson, made the call at the annual Ninzo Cultural Festival inContinue Reading
By Bashir Bello The Kano State Government has sunk N1 billion into the renovation of the state-owned Muhammadu Abdullahi Wase Specialist Hospital, health commissioner Abubakar Labaran said on Saturday. Labaran, while conducting the Presidential Media Team currently on inspection tour of completed and ongoing projects, said that the facility, whichContinue Reading
By Folasade Akpan The Committee of Chief Medical Directors and Medical Directors of Federal Tertiary Hospitals has called for strengthened security around health facilities following recent bomb attacks in Maiduguri, Borno State. The committee made the call while condemning coordinated explosions that rocked parts of Maiduguri, including the University ofContinue Reading
By Philip Yatai The Nigeria Ministers’ Wives Forum has officially handed over a newly renovated theatre, doctors’ call rooms and toilets at Zuba General Hospital. The forum also distributed food items to more than 300 women in the spirit of Lent and Ramadan, and donated hospital equipment, bedsheets and blanketsContinue Reading
By Philip Yatai The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, on Thursday handed over 12 new ambulances to FCT hospitals. Wike explained, during the handing over of the ambulances in Abuja, that the move was to support emergency services in the FCT health system. He saidContinue Reading
By Philip Yatai Dr Adedolapo Fasawe, Mandate Secretary, Health Services and Environment Secretariat of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), says new hospitals are underway in the territory to improve access to quality healthcare. Fasawe disclosed this in Abuja on Wednesday, during a capacity development training for health managers inContinue Reading
Queen Sonja of Norway has been flown to hospital by rescue helicopter. The Norwegian royal court announced on Tuesday that the queen, who is 87 years old, was admitted to the University Hospital in Oslo due to breathing difficulties. The radio station NRK reported that Sonja arrived at the hospitalContinue Reading
