HEALTH

Health sector reform aim at transforming health care system – Adewole

Daily Dispatch May 13, 2019

The Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole has said that the proposed Health Sector Reform in Nigeria is aimed at redefining and transforming the health care system in the country through partnerships between the government and key stakeholders, especially the private sector. Speaking at

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NAFDAC seals 20 medicine stores over alleged sale of fake drugs

Daily Dispatch May 12, 2019

The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Sunday, said it sealed 20 shops and confiscated drugs worth over N2million at the Monday market in Maiduguri. NAFDAC Coordinator in Borno, Nasiru Mato, who disclosed this shortly after the raid, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) in Maiduguri, said the […]

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15 million Nigerians have Asthma

Daily Dispatch May 7, 2019

The Nigerian Thoracic Society (NTS) on Tuesday in Abuja said that no fewer than 15 million people have Asthma in Nigeria, based on numerous studies. Dr Olanisun Adewole, Secretary General (NTS), made the disclosure in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in commemoration of 2019 World Asthma Day. World Asthma […]

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Police arrest 6 in possession of poisonous ‘ponmo’

Daily Dispatch May 5, 2019

Policemen attached to the Lagos State Police Command have arrested six suspects in possession of poisonous cow skin (ponmo). The Spokesperson, Lagos State Police Command, DSP Bala Elkana said in a statement on Sunday in Lagos that the suspects were arrested following a police tip-off. “On May 5, at about 5 a.m, acting on the […]

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‘Ghanaian Doctors Better Paid Than Their Nigeria Counterparts’

Daily Dispatch April 29, 2019

Dr Betta Edu, Director-General, Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (CRSPHCA), says medical doctors in Nigeria are lesser paid than their colleagues in some African countries. Edu, who was reacting to comments by Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, stated that the country clearly lacks the number of medical doctors to meet with […]

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IHVN trains journalists, advocates more efforts to fight against  HIV/TB

Daily Dispatch April 29, 2019

By Punarimam Fehintola The Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN)  trained health reporters on current Human Immunodeficiency Virus(HIV),Tuberculosis (TB) issues and calls for collaborative efforts in the fight against these diseases. At the one day seminar  in Abuja,  journalists were trained on HIV prevention, treatment, maintaining virological suppression and TB