Health

NACA’s Director of Community Prevention, Care and Support Services, Alex Ogundipe told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar on Wednesday that 1.7 million afflicted had been enrolled for treatment. “Our mandate is to identify people living with the virus; there are supposed to be about 1.9 million Nigerians. …

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has cautioned Nigerians to beware of reddish palm oil, noting that some market men and women, in an attempt to make profit, mixed palm oil with ‘Azo dye’, a cancer-causing agent, to make it look beautifully reddish and attractive …

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Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige has said he thought doctors in Nigeria were playing a prank when they embarked on a strike action. Ngige who spoke on Friday, in Abuja at the Nigerian Health Commissioners Forum Quarterly meeting, assured that the government will end the ongoing nationwide strike by the …

The federal government has given a hint that it might punish Nigerians who refuse to get vaccinated. Nigerians who have refused to get COVID-19 jab might get punished by the federal government. Speaking on Tuesday during a media briefing in Abuja, Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, …

Some Nigerian doctors in Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America have knocked the Federal Government for its alleged failure to invest in the health care sector. The doctors, who spoke in separate interviews with Sunday PUNCH, said the inconsistency of the government to adequately cater …

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said on Monday that death from Cholera has risen to 1,178 as of August 8. It said that a total of 37,819 suspected cases have been reported from 23 states since the beginning of 2021. The states are; Benue, Delta, Zamfara, Gombe, Bayelsa, …

Commissioner for Gender Affairs, Enugu State, Hon. Peace Nnaji, has urged mothers to reserve their breastmilk for their babies and not their husbands. The Commissioner stated this in a remark at a UNICEF media dialogue with select journalists from South East, South South, and parts of North Central. According to …

He added that bad eating habits, stress, consuming stockfish and fish with a large presence of mercury in them, are embryo-toxic and could be a major cause of infertility.   “Some women do not drive with their shoes because they find it easy driving barefooted. Many patients experience miscarriages after …

Fives lives have been lost as COVID-19 cases rise in Nigeria with 535 new infections reported in 18 states. The rising cases are indications that the third wave of the dreaded COVID-19 has hit Nigeria. Figures released by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) showed that cases surged from …