The World Health Organisation has appointed the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekweazu, as its Assistant Director General of Health Emergency Intelligence. He is set to assume duty on November 1, 2021. WHO Director General, Tedros Ghebreyesus. disclosed this in a letter addressed to all staff members of the organisation. […]
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The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has warned Nigerians to avoid the risk of taking herbal formulations after 14 days of preparations. Shee explained that such measure was necessary for safety reasons, adding that such medicine should always be kept refrigerated. Alsp a statement […]
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Although African Region was certified free of wild poliovirus one year ago, after four years without a case, outbreaks of a vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) is spreading throughout communities where too few children have received the polio vaccine, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. Vaccine-derived poliovirus is a weakened strain of the virus that […]
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NAFDAC Director General, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it will clampdown on unethical and illegal advertisement of herbal medicines in Kaduna State. T he State Coordinator, Mr Nasiru Mato, disclosed this in an interview on Monday in Kaduna. He said the excesses and arbitrary advertisement of […]
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The Federal Government, on Sunday, expressed concern about the 21-day strike notice issued by the Nigerian Medical Association over the alleged failure of government to meet the demands of the striking resident doctors. The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, while responding to an inquiry on the threat by the NMA, said doctors should stop embarking […]
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Warns that no doctor should be victimised for participating in NARD strike Doctors can’t be paid for not working – Ngige NARD vows to continue the strike, accuses FG of not waiting for Industrial Court’s judgment Business boom in private hospitals as patients leave public facilities in drove The health sector may be shut down […]
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Nigerian Pharmaceutical giant, Emzor has signed an agreement with an Indian company, Mangalam Drugs & Organics Limited, to produce in Nigeria and distribute active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to treat and prevent malaria. The pact includes an API technology transfer and licensing agreement, which establishes a co-development basis for manufacturing four APIs for the treatment of […]
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States ruled by the All Progressives Congress (APC) are to henceforth devote 15 per cent of their annual budget to healthcare delivery. The decision was contained in a communiqué issued on Sunday in Abuja after a meeting of Commissioners of Health and Executive Secretaries of Primary Health Care Development Agency of APC-controlled states on how […]
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Medical bodies to give FG 21-day ultimatum Forum of Health Institutions’ Chairmen seek end to NARD strike Ngige: Striking doctors begrudge government’s generosity, want to act above law The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria, MDCAN, and Medical and Dental Doctors in Academics, MEDSABAM, on Saturday unanimously agreed to join […]
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Some Nigerian doctors in Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America have knocked the Federal Government for its alleged failure to invest in the health care sector. The doctors, who spoke in separate interviews with Sunday PUNCH, said the inconsistency of the government to adequately cater for the needs of medical […]
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