Proposed bill on compulsory 5-year service for doctors has good intention — Minister
April 14, 2023 The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, says the compulsory five-year service for graduates in medical and dental fields before being granted full licence proposed in a…
Vaccine manufacturers to rely on solar-powered generators as backup – FG
Nov. 13, 2022 Local vaccine manufacturers will have to rely on solar-powered generators as back-up, pending when electricity situation will improve in the country. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie…
NIGERIA WILL SAVE N2 TRILLION FROM MALARIA ELIMINATION, PRESIDENT BUHARI DECLARES, APPOINTS DANGOTE CHAIRMAN OF 16-MEMBER COUNCIL TO ERADICATE DISEASE
August 16, 2022 President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja inaugurated Nigeria End Malaria Council (NEMC), projecting that the successful implementation of the Council’s agenda and savings from the estimated economic…
FG disburses N100bn loan to indigenous pharmaceutical manufacturers
By Ismaila Chafe The Federal Government has disbursed N100 billion to indigenous pharmaceutical manufacturers and healthcare investors as loans to expand their capital base, boost local production of medicines and…
New global alliance launched to end AIDS in children by 2030
August 2, 2022 …52% of children living with HIV on life-saving treatment Only half (52%) of children living with HIV globally are on life-saving treatment, far behind adults where three…
Vaccines: Our urgency is now to have the technology for production – Health Minister
June 21, 2022 The Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), has said that emphasis is now shifting from the urgency for the country to manufacture its own vaccines, to having the…
NBSCÂ says only about 25,000 safe blood units available in Nigeria, decries deficit in blood bank
May 27, 2022 Ag Director-General, National Blood Service Commission (NBSC), Dr. Omale Amedu, on Thursday decried the great deficit in Nigeria blood bank. Amedu said this at the commencement of…
Tuberculosis: Nigeria treats 1m in 11 years
March 25, 2022 The Federal Ministry of Health says the country’s efforts recorded in the country’s Tuberculosis (TB) response has led to the treatment of over one million Nigerians from…
NIGERIA’S HEALTH SYSTEM ROBUST, CAN ACHIEVE GREATER COVERAGE WITH RESOURCESÂ – OSINBAJO
Feb. 1, 2022 … VP receives Dangote, delegation from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Federal Government says despite the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Nigeria’s public health system…
120 outbreaks of vaccine-derived polio reported in Nigeria
Sept. 6, 2021 The Representative of the United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) in Nigeria, Dr. Peter Hawkins, has said that a massive outbreak of vaccine-derived polio has been reported in…