The Chairman of Mecure Industries Plc, Mr. Samir Udani, has disclosed that only about 20 percent of local raw materials needed by the healthcare companies in Nigeria are sourced locally, while 80 percent is sourced abroad.
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The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has stated that the enrollment of pensioners into the health insurance scheme in the state was initiated after a situational review found that many of them were dealing with various health challenges.
The leading global toothpaste brand, Pepsodent, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria Dental Association, has embarked on an oral health campaign for schools and communities in underserved areas nationwide.
Sycophancy, greed, extortion and hoarding are signs of mental ill-health, Andrew Zamani, a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Nassarawa State University, has declared.
The House of Representatives on Thursday mandated its Committee on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Control to carry out a baseline survey across the six geo-political zones of the country on fake anti-malaria drugs and report back to it within four weeks.
The House of Representatives Committee on Health Institutions has pledged the 10th National Assembly support at efforts aimed at reshaping healthcare delivery in Nigeria.
With over 400 million projected populations by 2050, the Institute of Health Service Administrators of Nigeria, IHSAN, on Wednesday in Lagos urged the Federal Government to urgently expand and modernize healthcare services in the country to meet the healthcare needs of Nigerians.
In a bid to provide comprehensive healthcare support to vulnerable pregnant women and also reduce maternal mortality in the FCT, the Mandate Secretary, Health Services and Environment Secretariat, Dr. Adedolapo Fasawe has disclosed the determination of the FCT Administration to initiate a special health insurance enrollment program for vulnerable pregnant women in the FCT in order to drastically reduce maternal mortality rate.
The Managing Director, Clina-Lancet Laboratories Nigeria, Olayemi Dawodu, has called for standardization across the Nigerian healthcare value chain.
The Chief Executive of Malaria Consortium, Dr. James Tibenderana, on Wednesday, said 97 per cent of Nigerians are at risk of malaria despite the country’s progress in reducing the prevalence of the disease.