As a means towards improving the service delivery in the health sector and controlling exercises amongst professionals, the ministry of health has inaugurated governing board to ensure effectiveness and efficiency. The permanent secretary of the ministry of health Abdullahi Mashi said
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The residents of Chibiri Community in Kuje Area Council have resorted to using herbalists for the treatment of their children due to lack of proper healthcare facility in the area. The residents on Sunday in Abuja told NAN that over the years they have lost children to seizure and other ailments. Mrs Fatima Yusuf, a […]
The Acting Minister of Health and the Permanent Secretary Abdullahi Mashi said Nigerians consumed over 20 billion sticks of cigarettes thereby killing over 16,100 persons every year in the country as result of tobacco-related diseases which are predominantly non-communicable diseases (NCD). He made this known at a press briefing on Friday to commemorate the 2019 […]
World Health Organisation has warned that over 24 million Nigerians may suffer from various mental illnesses, a situation worsened by the dismal number of health institutions and professionals. The frightening revelation was contained in the global agency’s 2018 report released at a workshop on health reporting during emergencies in Yola. The document observed that with
Mariecare Initiative, an NGO, has offered free medical services to children of Gishiri community, a suburb of the FCT, to commemorate the 2019 Children’s Day celebration. Miss Marie Onen, founder of the organisation said on Saturday that the organisation was moved by the drive to reach out to the less privileged children in the society […]
The police in Kano have intercepted 303 cartons of hard drugs (Tramadol tablets). The Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed Wakili, disclosed while briefing newsmen in Kano on Friday. He said the interception was in continuation of the command’s effort to rid the state of all forms of crimes, especially dealing in hard drugs (Kwaya) and […]
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