National president of the Nigerian Association of Clinical Psychologists (NACP) Professor Gboyega Abikoye has urged the federal government to pay more attention to the mental health issues in the country to curtail the rising cases of addictive behaviour due to abuse of substances among Nigerians.
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The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has donated the sum of N20million to the Faith Foundation Mission Hospital in Nsukka, Enugu State.
Labour leaders in the country have lamented the pains inflicted on Nigerian Workers by the present economic challenges occasioned by fuel subsidy removal and inflation.
Period syncing, also known as menstrual synchrony, occurs when women who live or spend a lot of time together experience their menstrual cycles at the same time.
101 staff working for the United Nation Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) working with and for Palestine Refugees have been…
The UN’s health agency WHO said on Sunday night that according to the Gaza health authorities, 37 premature babies at the hospital were relocated over the weekend to an operating room without their incubators, with health workers trying to heat the room. According to the latest media reports on Monday, six babies at Al-Shifa have died.
The World Health Organization has verified over 250 attacks on healthcare in Gaza and the West Bank raising alarm over the reports on repeated attacks on hospitals.
A family physician, Dr. Oluwajimi Sodipo, has appealed to the Federal government to ensure responsible pricing mechanism of life saving medicine to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases in the country.
Uganda has established a modern bone marrow transplant (BMT) facility, that will help reduce numbers of patients seeking transplants abroad where they part with between US$40,000 to $50,000 [about Ug. Shillings 150m-200m] to treat one patient (medical procedure and accommodation during recovery) for at least one month in India, alone. The Ugandan facility, the first-of-the-kind in the nation, has been set up by the State-run Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC) at Lubowa, south of Kampala.
With over 400 million projected population in Nigeria by 2050, the Institute of health service administrators of Nigeria, IHSAN, has charged the Federal Government to urgently expand and modernize healthcare services in the country to meet needs of Nigerians.