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.
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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 Founder of the Mandate Health Empowerment Initiative (MHEI), Mr Ameh Zion has appealed to Federal Government to prioritize mental health in the quest to attain Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by the year 2030.
The Adamawa State Primary Healthcare Development Agency says it is targeting 388,180 girls aged nine to 14 years for vaccination against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) to prevent them from cervical cancer.
The United Nations says its teams in Nepal are responding to the devastating earthquake in the west of the country, amid reports that over 150 people have been killed and hundreds more injured
Experts in health and urban planning on Saturday decried the poor state of health and healthcare services in Nigerian urban slums.
Gombe state governor, Inuwa Yahaya has sought for more robust partnership with the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) to address healthcare challenges in the state.
ASHENEWS reports that a maternity complex and two blocks of 40-bed capacity patient wards have been constructed by the Madugu Foundation in collaboration with the National Agricultural Extension, Research and Liaison Services at the General Hospital Gwandu, Kebbi state.
The House of Representative has urged President Bola Tinubu to allocate part of the fuel subsidy removal savings to funding healthcare service for the vulnerable.