Health

The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has urged the Federal Government to conduct a forensic probe on the Federal Ministry of Health and its parastatal agencies. Mr. Wale Olatunde, the association’s President of federal health institutions chapter, made the appeal on Thursday in Abuja during a peaceful protest by members demanding for improved condition of service in …

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The Federal Government has signed a €70m grant agreement with the European Union to improve access to effective health care and nutrition in five states and push for polio eradication programmes. Speaking at the signing ceremony on Thursday in Abuja, Mr Michael Arrion, Head, EU Delegation to Nigeria, said EU considers support to the health sector in Nigeria a priority. …

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The Senate Committee on Primary Healthcare, Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases on Tuesday urged the National Primary Health Care Development Agency to authenticate the claim of Prof. Maduike Ezeibe of having a cure for HIV. The Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Mao Ohuabunwa, made the call during the agency’s budget defence in Abuja. Ezeibe, a researcher in Veterinary Medicine at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, …

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It is no longer news ­that there is need to­ have an urgent, coor­dinated and sustained­ response to combat H­IV/AIDS in Nigeria. T­his can only be resu­lt driven when there ­are early government-­led efforts that seek­s to help coordinate ­public and private se­ctor activities as we­ll as the arrival of ­significant internati­onal funding. In a bid to hasten in­tervention and …

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A fertility expert, Dr. Stephen Hwande, says that pain during intercourse, increased menstrual cramping and increased urination are early signs of fibroid. The Managing Director of First Fertility Hospital, Makurdi, Hwande, said on Tuesday in Makurdi that heavy bleeding between or during one’s period, that result into blood clots, may also signify fibroid. He said, “When menstruation last longer than …

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Prof. Suleiman Adeniran of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, has advised couples to embrace family planning to ease the effects of economic recession. Adeniran gave the advice in Ilorin on Friday during a presentation a t a UITH Seminar on ‘Economic Recession: A healthy way out’. The gynaecologist described family planning as a concept …

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  Dayo Emmanuel One of Nigeria’s leading financial institutions, Access Bank plc has reaffirmed its commitment to continue in the fight against malaria in Nigeria. At a press conference held at the bank’s headquarters in Lagos, the bank in partnership with the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria (PSHN) announced the new partner in the war- Huawei Nigeria. Speaking at …

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Lagos State Gov. Akinwumi Ambode LAGOS CANCELS MONTHLY ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION DAY …Urges Residents To Comply With Environmental Laws The Lagos State Government on Wednesday terminated the monthly environmental sanitation exercise which hitherto held for three hours on the last Saturday of every month. The State Government, in a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, said …

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Obesity can lead to sperm disorders in men, implantation failures in women – Expert A Lagos based fertility expert, Dr Kayode Jegede, on Monday said that obesity and overweight, especially resulting from modern day life styles that have people accumulate toxins in their bodies could lead to sperm disorders in men and implantation failures in women, a condition that can …

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President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, the Nigerian medical doctor who operated on an unborn baby in the United States of America. Oluyinka Olutoye, a 1988 medical graduate of the University of Ife, Osun State successfully removed tumour from a baby in her mother’s womb, a feat which has brought honour to Nigeria. Senior Special Adviser to the …

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