In an open letter, former heads of state as well as leaders from civil society and business launch a petition call for more solidarity and a more coordinated approach to deal with the Ebola outbreak in West Afric...
Roles of humanitarian services in tackling healthcare inequality in developing countries
The World Humanitarian Day was recently held to celebrate men and women who on a regular basis expose themselves to various forms of danger in the course of assisting people who are under-served in terms of healthcare and social needs....
Doctors' sack is in Nigeria's best interest - government
The Nigerian government has revealed that its decision to suspend the Residency Training Programme in the health sector
was done in the overall interest of all Nigerians....
Nigerian doctors stage nationwide protests over sack
Nigerian doctors in various parts of the country on Monday staged a peaceful protest demanding the reversal of the president's decision to sack the nation's 16,000 resident doctors...
Protesters free 29 Ebola patients in Liberia
Armed men attacked an Ebola isolation ward in the Liberian capital Monrovia overnight, prompting 29 patients to flee the facility, witnesses said Sunday...
Lawyers in Nigeria urged to postpone national conference over Ebola
Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Mr Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, has advised the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to shelve its planned national conference slated for next week in the wake of the Ebola outbreak...
Memories of error improve our learning speed, research reveals
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, MD, think they have discovered why people learn an identical task faster on subsequent attempts. Publishing their findings in Science Express, the team says our memories of error are the key to faster learning...
President Jonathan Commissions N1 Billion Trauma Centre in Abuja
Presiden Goodluck Jonathan has commissioned a trauma centre considered to be world-class and conform to international standards and best practices. The centre was constructed and equipped at a cost of over nine hundred million naira.
Also, in an effort to arrest the high incidences of medical tourism,...
Nurses chase suspected Ebola patient out of hospital in Lagos
There was commotion on Monday when a suspected Ebola Virus Disease patient showed up at the General Hospital in Oke-Odo, Agege, Lagos State...
Nigerian government sacks resident doctors
Nigerian government yesterday (Thursday) announced indefinite suspension of residency training programme for doctors in the country...
Ebola has a great potential of driving appropriate responses - Lawal
HealthNewsNG.com spoke to Lawal Kola Bakare,
Convener of Ebola Alert, on the prevention and control strategies for the
disease in Nigeria. He also spoke on at local and regional levels to curb the spread of the disease...
2 million people to access eye healthcare services at new clinic in Mozambique
A few days ago the Central Hospital in Beira, Mozambique, saw the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Invicta Eye Clinic, which will serve as eye-care hub for two million people...
Healthcare Innovation Award winners influencing approaches to healthcare for children and newborns - GSK
While renewing call for applications, GSK and Save the Children have announced previous winners of the Health Innovation Awards are attracting
interest and support from national governments to help improve survival
rates of newborns and children under five in developing countries....
Ebola in Rwanda, medical student from Germany being tested
Rwanda's health ministry has announced a German student has been isolated and is being tested for Ebola virus disease. If the test is positive, the student would be the nation's first confirmed case of Ebola that is fast spreading across Africa....
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