Doctors recruited from some of the world’s poorest countries to work in UK hospitals say they’re being exploited – and believe they’re so overworked they fear putting patients’ health at risk. A BBC investigation has found evidence that doctors from Nigeria are being recruited by a British
HEALTH
The number of people living with diabetes is expected to grow over 100 per cent in Africa with the prevalence of the disease in Nigeria projected to rise to eight million by 2045. This, is according to a diabetes care report published by The Access to Medicine Foundation, ATMF, a Netherlands-based non-profit organisation, that stimulates […]
A mentally-challenged woman in Ekiti, popularly called `Iya Kamo’, was delivered of a set of twins, a boy and a girl, on Saturday. She was delivered of the babies at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti in Ido/osi Local Government Area of the state. “Iya Kamo’’ and the new babies are doing well, spokesman of the […]
The House of Representatives has raised the alarm over the possibility of the ebola virus returning to Nigeria, urging the Federal Government to immediately activate preventive measures. Members of the House, at the plenary on Thursday, unanimously adopted a motion moved by one of them, Dachung Bagos, who warned that the virus might spread to […]
A 14-day-old twin baby stolen from the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) Bauchi had been recovered in Bauchi. Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee (CMAC) of the hospital, Dr Haruna Liman, while handing over the baby on Tuesday in Bauchi, said that the baby was stolen from the mother in the hospital eight days after […]
The Old students of Egba Obafemi Grammar School (EOCGS) on Saturday offered a free medical outreach to residents of Obafemi community in Obafemi-Owode Local Government area of Ogun State In what could better be described as homecoming, the former students led by their President, Alhaji Mutiu Dada came to the community to contribute their quota […]









