…Patients lament, skip medications, seek alternative treatment…Experts worry, propose urgent solutions By Sola Ogundipe & Chioma Obinna, LAGOS In Nigeria, falling sick can be challenging
Category: HEALTH
In Ogun, it’s one doctor to 6,400 patients – NMA chair
The Nigerian Medical Association has expressed concern over the shortage of doctors in Ogun with the current ratio of one doctor to 6,400 patients in
NCF, Wilder institute move to preserve Cross River gorillas
The Nigerian Conservation Foundation and Wilder Institute have provided over N8m in equipment to aid research efforts on the critically endangered Cross River gorilla (Gorilla
Techniques Of Breast Reduction Surgery
Breast reduction surgery, medically termed as reduction mammoplasty, is a procedure that removes excess glandular tissue, fat, and skin to reduce the size and weight
Fresh outbreak of COVID-19 hits Benue
MAKURDI—Word Health Organisation, WHO, has announced 25 cases of fresh Coronavirus disease, COVID-19 infections, in Benue State, advising people to take advantage of the availability
Tension in Abia as students protest exclusion in re-scheduled nursing exam
By Steve Oko There was tension on Monday in Umuahia, Abia State capital as nursing students from four Schools of Nursing in the state protested
Four persons die after herbal HIV treatment
The Network of People Living with HIV and AIDS in Nigeria, NEPWHAN, in Gombe State, on Thursday, announced that four of its members died for
70 year-old woman delivers twins after years of barrenness
A 70-year-old Ugandan woman, Safina Namukwaya, has delivered a set of twins – a boy and a girl, after becoming pregnant through an In vitro
Total Support for Life-Care conducts free eye screening, distributes glasses
A non-governmental organization, the Total Support for Life-Care Development International Initiative, has facilitated free eye surgery and provision of glasses for 300 aged of the
Can we make DNA compulsory in marriages?
A story that trended last weekend showed a man weeping profusely after DNA test results revealed that none of his four children was his biological
