By ABIODUN JIMOH, ABEOKUTA The alarming rate of people with mental health challenges may become a thing of the past as the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta has launched a stress helpline to address the issue. With this development, reprieve seems to have come the way of those suffering
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The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, has disclosed that globally, every 40 seconds, a life is lost to suicide and almost four out of five suicides occur in low- and middle-income countries. World Mental Health Day celebrated on 10 October, is an opportunity to unite across the African Region and globally, for better […]
By ABIODUN JIMOH As part of activities to celebrate the International Older Persons Day and Nigeria’s Independence Anniversary, the Edo Specialist Hospital would throw its doors open for persons above 60 years old in the state to undertake free medical checks at the state-of-the-art facility. The Edo Specialist Hospital was recently opened to the public […]
Katsina state government has concluded plans to immunize seven million persons against yellow fever in the state. The decision to immunize the people is as a result of the outbreak of 36 cases of yellow fever recorded recently in the state. Alhaji Mannir Yakubu, the state Deputy Governor made this assertion while inspecting the ongoing […]
Just two years after three pupils of Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos, died from water-borne infections, another related disease has broken out in the school. The PUNCH gathered from some parents on Monday that no fewer than 700 pupils had taken permission to go home on health grounds. The school’s sick bay was said to be […]
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has supported Northeast of Nigeria with 18.5 billion naira to fight Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), a life- threatening condition. According to Nutrition Sector annual projections, an estimated 371,000 boys and girls under the age of 5 in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states will suffer from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM).










