Category: Health

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Country loses estimated $900m annually Unchecked influx of fake drugs into Nigeria accounts for 12,000 deaths annually and an economic loss estimated at $900m, according to experts. Medical sources described counterfeit medication popularly referred to as fake drugs as powerful and deadly, adding that well organized cabals are holding the country by the jugular. It […]

The striking doctors on Friday accused the Federal Government of alleged insincerity in addressing their demands. Besides, they flayed the ex parte injunctions and perceived misinterpretation of the ruling of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) by government, as part of their reasons for pressing ahead withcontinued the strike. On the alleged insincerity, the […]

Kogi State Government has confirmed the death of eight persons from diarrhoea-related diseases in five local government areas of the state. In statement issued on Wednesday and made available to newsmen in Lokoja, the state capital, government also confirmed that a total of 129 cases had so far been reported while 66 persons had been […]

Some of the doctors at the Saudi Arabia recruitment centre in Abuja. Photo: Olatunji Obasa Another holds Thursday Nigerian doctors in their hundreds, on Tuesday, stormed the Ladi Kwali Hall of the Sheraton Hotels, Abuja, as a consultancy firm, Meeds Consultancy, commenced interviews for those willing to work in Saudi Arabia. The firm organised the […]

From Lagos to Uyo, Abuja to Abeokuta, and indeed, the whole of Nigerian cities and towns where major tertiary hospitals are sited, it is the story of pain and pangs for patients who could not access urgent medical care due to the ongoing industrial action by the Nigerian doctors. As much as medical consultants and […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disbursed N97.8 billion out of the N100 billion facility it approved for the healthcare sector. The fund was committed to 98 healthcare projects across different regions in the country. This underscores the fact that improved funding for the healthcare sector is needed to save foreign exchange used for […]