By Correspondent in Lokoja. As diabetes continues to register many deaths in Nigeria,a medical practitioner, Dr. Adewole Adesanya, has called on the three tiers of government to ensure people had access to oral drugs and insulin for the treatment of diabetes. He made the call on Wednesday at a programme organised by the management of…
By Correspondent in Lokoja. The Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, on Monday, donated N2.5 million towards the medical bill of Mrs Obahopo who was involved in a ghastly motor accident on Okene-Kabba road barely a week ago during which five persons lost their lives and other victims sustained varied degrees of injury. The Victim…
Kehinde Alabi , Ilorin. A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress,(APC) in Kwara State, Engineer Sunday Babalola, on Wednesday pleaded with the striking members of the National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners (NAGGMDP) in Kwara State to call off their seven day warning strike. He pleaded with them to consider the negative…
By Willy Punvwet in Lafia. The Nasarawa State Government has expressed displeasure over the lukewarm attitude of most people in the state toward the monthly environmental sanitation in the state and arrested 48 persons for violating the state Environmental Sanitation laws. The Chief Environmental Officer in the State, Alhaji Abubakar Mohammed, expressed the feeling of…
KEHINDE EMMANUEL, ILORIN The Kwara State Government and the National Malaria Elimination Programme have been commended for their commitment to quality health care services to the people of the State. The Director of Global Fund, Dr. Issa Kawu made the commendation at the debriefing meeting held at the Ministry of Health on the effective and…
By Correspondent in Minna. A Mental Health Awareness Advocate in Niger state,Obiageli Wakaso,has called for an end to stimatisation of mental health victims and related issues in Nigeria. Wakaso,who made the call in Minna while speaking at the 2021 World Mental Health Walk.said the call become necessary because ‘every individual has element of mental issue…
Foreign news. The World Health Organization(WHO), has recommended the widespread rollout of the first-ever malaria vaccine, in a move experts hope could save tens of thousands of children’s lives each year across Africa. Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-general of the WHO, announced the development at a media briefing on Wednesday. He said the recommendation followed a two-year…
By Dada Ahmed in Lokoja. Full healthcare services resumed on Wednesday at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Lokoja, following the suspension of the two months strike by members of National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD),just as the hospital commissioned the first endoscopic machine in 30-year-old Kogi state. The Correspondent of The Reporters who visited the…
By Dada Ahmed. Professor Ogirima.mni. The Management of the Federal University, Lokoja (FUL), has appointed Professor Ozovehe Mike Ogirima, mni as the Provost of its newly established College of Health Sciences. Our Correspondent recalls that Ogirima, a Professor of Orthopedic and trauma, from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and a holder of four fellowships in…
By Correspondent. The Kogi State Government has commenced training exercise for 1,080 health workers for the implementation of the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) in the state. Speaking to Journalists on Tuesday at the training centre in Lokoja, the Executive Director, Kogi State Primary Health Care Development Agency (KSPHCDA), Dr Abubakar Yakubu, said the…
