Healthcare

Health Facility Shut Down After The Death Of Surgery Patient In Lagos   The Felobam Alpha Convalescent Home was shut down by the Lagos State Health Facility Monitoring and...

IHDA To Improve Healthcare In Ikale Community, Provides Free Services   The Ikale Heritage Development Association (IHDA) has provided free medical screening to 100 indigenes of the community in...

Expert Warns that 578 Million People Might Become Diabetic By 2030   Dr Murtala Umar, a senior consultant and eye expert from the National Eye Centre, has warned that...

POLIO: Edo to administer second round of oral polio vaccination  HEALTHDIGEST- The Edo State Primary Health Care Development Agency says it will commence the second round of oral...

Healthcare Professionals Ask For Adequate Immunisation Funding The National Association of Community Health Practitioners of Nigeria (NACHPN), has asked for an improved funding for Immunisation in order to...

Kidney Disease: LASUTH Launches New Dialysis Unit To Improve Treatment   The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) has disclosed that it has launched a new Dialysis Unit to...

To Eradicate Malaria, ACOMIN Seeks Aggressive Media Support   As part of its ongoing efforts to eradicate malaria in Nigeria, especially in Kaduna state, the Network of Civil Society...

NCDC: Lassa Fever Kills 152, Experts Caution   In its latest Lassa fever situation report, that was obtained by the PUNCH newspaper, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)...

Cervical Cancer: New Data Suggests 40% Prevalence In West Africa   Recent data that has been collected by mPharma, an indigenous health start-up, suggests that the prevalence of cervical...

Tuberculosis: Nigeria Still Records 200,000 Cases Annually   Yesterday, the Federal Government said that despite the significant progress that has been made in the past 3 years in the...