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The David Folaranmi Foundation Provides Free Food And Medical Outreach To Enugu Community   By providing food and a free medical outreach, the David Folaranmi Foundation (DFF), a non-governmental...

Valneva Covid Vaccine Approved for use in UK HEALTHDIGEST- A new Covid vaccine has been approved for use in the UK by regulators. The new vaccine Is manufactured by...

Lassa Fever: Fatality Rate Rises To 19.1 Percent In Nigeria Dr. Olorunnimbe Mamora, the Minister of State for Health, has expressed his concern over the rising cases of...

1,000 Measles Cases Recorded In 3 Months In Sokoto, Nigeria   Ali Inname, the Sokoto State Commissioner of Health, has announced that, between January and March of this year,...

Bill to Establish FMC Kano Passes 2nd Reading in the Senate HEALTHDIGEST- A bill for an Act to Establish Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Gwarzo, Kano State, for medical...

Psychiatrist Urges LASG To Help Distressed And Abandoned Mental Patients   Brigadier General Gbenga Okulate (Rtd), a Psychiatrist for the Nigeria Military Hospital Yaba (NMHY), made an appeal to...

How Climate Change Crisis Is Worsening Nigeria's Disease Burden   Stakeholders are stressing the need for climate friendly policies as Nigeria begins to face burdens from worsening non-communicable diseases...

In Nigeria, Hypertension Is On The Rise: Physicians Mrs. Tolu Oladapo, a family health physician, says that cases of hypertension are rapidly increasing in Nigeria in spite of...

Lassa Fever Has Killed 132 People In Nigeria In 4 Months - Minister Mamora   The Federal Government has faulted the report of an increase in COVID-19 cases to...

There Is A Need For Improved Adult Vaccination In Nigeria, Says Experts   Medical experts in Nigeria are advising for their to be improved adult vaccination campaigns in Nigeria....