Tag: health
Lagos Shuts 28 Illegal Hospitals
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government says it has shut down 28 substandard hospitals and 319 illegal pharmacies across the…
Malaria Kills A Child Every Minute, Says WHO
Eromosele Ebhomele As the world prepares for the annual World Malaria Day Friday, the World Health Organisation, WHO, says malaria…
Fashola Vows To Tackle Goitre Epidemic
Lagos State Government has vowed to control the incidence of Goitre attack by taking on the disease frontally through surgical…
Refresh, Revitalise
By Sharon Jane Akinyemi How important is your health? What amount of money would you be willing to pay to…
How Rebasing Can Translate To Development
Dr Ayo Teriba, Managing Director of Economic Associates and one of the experts who knew how the figures came about,…
Polio: Nigeria 2nd Largest Country With Unimmunised Kids
Eromosele Ebhomele Nigeria accounts for 3.8 million of the estimated 22.6 million unimmunised children against polio living in different countries…
Lagos Begins Surgery On 48 Goitre Patients
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government will as from Monday begin free surgery on 48 residents of Badagry area of…
Accessing Safe Water In Nigeria
By Musbau Rasak British politician and novelist, Edwina Currie, once said that, instead of drinking Coca Colas, turn on the…
LUTH Doctors End Strike
The Association of Resident Doctors, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, on Tuesday said its members would resume work on…
‘Go For Regular Medical Check Up’
Nigerians have been advised to carry out regular medical examinations in order to keep their body in a good shape.…
No Cure For Ebola Disease, Lagos Warns Residents
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has alerted residents of the state on the danger inherent in contracting the deadly…
Nigeria’s MDG Score Card
By John Tosin Ajiboye The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that were established after the Millennium…
Ensuring The Well-Being Of The Aged
By Bilikis Bakare Apart from death which everybody knows is inevitable and unstoppable, one other reality that comes to all…
TB Kills 192 In Adamawa
Dr. Stephen John, Project Manager of the TB Control Programme in Adamawa State has revealed that 3,382 cases of Tuberculosis…
1.5m Lagosians To Get Protection Against Mosquitoes
The Lagos State government targets protecting 1.5 million Lagos residents against mosquitoes as it begins the Indoor Residential Spraying, IRS,…
Goitre Scourge Hits Lagos, 50 Affected
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Government has raised concerns over an outbreak of goitre in Badagry Local Government Area of the…
Stem Goitre Scourge Now
The goitre scourge ravaging Badagry Local Government Area of Lagos State is a worrisome development that needs concerted efforts to…
Helping The Displaced People
By John Tosin Ajiboye Displaced people are those who have left their normal living area because their lives or their…
Abandoned Child Now Undergraduate
Kayode Aponmade Twenty years after Chidinma Sunday was abandoned at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) where he was admitted, he…
Creating Awareness For Endometriosis
By Bilikis Bakare It is often common for girls and young women to experience pain during early hours of their…
LG Bosses Face Sack Over Immunisation, Says Oshiomhole
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, southern Nigeria, Tuesday warned all local government council chairmen in the state…
360m People Deaf, Says WHO
Eromosele Ebhomele The World Health Organisation, WHO, has released a report showing that 360 million people across the world are…
The Invisible Epidemic
As a lover of sweet foods all her life, she takes about six cubes of sugar with her tea so …
Nigeria And The Challenge Of Mental Disorder
By Bilikis Bakare Medical experts in the country recently revealed that 64 million Nigerians suffer from one form of mental…
714 Women Die During Child Birth
Kazeem Ugbodaga At least 714 women died during child birth in Lagos public health facilities between 2010 and 2012. The…
UPTH Doctors Begin Strike Over Unpaid Wages
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Resident doctors at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH, southsouth Nigeria, have begun an indefinite…
Skeletal Services In Hospitals As Strike Enters Day 2
The three-day warning strike by medical and health workers in the country is taking its toll on patients in Lagos…
Infertility Now Higher —Doctors
The rush to get babies from baby factories in the south-eastern part of the country has been linked to the…
India marks 3 years without polio
India marks three years since its last reported polio case on Monday, meaning it will soon be certified as having…
Foddering Baby Factories
Baby factories and child harvesting, emergent lexicons in Nigeria’s human trafficking history, have in recent times hogged the headlines non-stop.…