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No fewer than 1,685 school children in some communities in  Ikorodu, Lagos State, have benefited from a “Free Eye Check, Diagnosis, Treatment and Eye Glasses Outreach’’ by the RESTORE Foundation For Child Sight, an NGO. The Executive Director of the ...

Health experts in cancer care say there is need to upscale the number of mental health staff and support groups for cancer patients in order to improve treatment outcomes. The experts said this during a Cancer Summit organised by a ...

Mr Faruk Abubakar, the Secretary General/Registrar, Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN), has reiterated the council’s commitment toward having healthy mothers and babies in the country. He made the pledge during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria ...

After a six-week trial  and conviction at the Old Bailey, London’s Central Criminal Court, the Ekweremadus and their doctor might face a harsh reality of a possible 10-year jail terms for violating the Modern Slavery Act. The judge, Mr Justice ...

As malaria continues to pose grave danger globally, there are indications that reprieve may have come the way of Nigerian children as vaccine to prevent the deadly disease is expected in the country by April 2024. Minister of Health, Dr ...

Experts in the health sector have urged government and healthcare providers in the private sector, to take advantage of opportunities presented by technologies to boost healthcare delivery in the country. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on ...

The Bauchi state Agency for the control of Aids/HIV, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Leprosy (BACATMA) has said that about four million treated mosquito nets are to be freely distributed to the people in the fight against malaria especially among Under-5 children ...

Only the 144,766 federal civil servants under the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure will benefit from the new 40 per cent peculiar allowance introduced by the Federal Government. This implies that other workers under the employment of the Federal Government but ...

In a bid to alleviate the sufferings of the less privileged, a Non-governmental Organisation, Ike Jerusalem Foundation, provided medical assistance, donated eyeglasses, and assisted in carrying out surgeries for indigent residents in Awka, Anambra State. The medical outreach with the ...

Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) has set up moves to monitor the members to ensure they comply strictly to the ethics of the profession. The registrar/secretary of the council, Faruk Umar Abubakar stated this yesterday at the induction ...