Q&A: HealthMobile App Gets Professional Endorsement From Nigerian Doctors

  HealthMobile is Nigeria's first global healthcare app. HealthNewsNG.com spoke to its developers about the app, its development and the innovative hospital locator feature among other issues. About Developers Joshua Ihejiamaizu is an entrepreneur, designer (web, graphics, UI/UX) and...

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NMA expresses fears over prolonged Strike by ASUU

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has expressed fears over the nationwide strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as it continues to bit harder across the country. The association stated that it is negatively impacting medical education and training of medical professionals...

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OJB Jezreel Discharged From Hospital Following Successful Kidney Transplant Surgery

Ace Nigerian music producer, OJB Jezreel has been discharged from hospital following successful kidney transplant surgery in India. We can also exclusively reveal that the kidney was donated by his wife, Mabel....

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Significant investments needed to ensure access to health care services - Chamberlain Diala

Chamberlain Diala (PhD, MPH) is the Associate Director, the Global Health, Population and Nutrition at FHI 360. In this exclusive chat with HealthNewsNG.com, Diala spoke extensively on the plights of pregnant women in Nigeria in the fight against malaria. ...

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Pregnant women in Nigeria confront many challenges - FHI 360

Pregnant women in Nigeria, according to Chamberlain Diala (PhD, MPH), Associate Director, the Global Health, Population and Nutrition at FHI 360, are confronting a myriad of challenges, especially access to healthcare.Diala stated this in a chat with HealthNewsNG.com. ...

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TB treatment saved the lives of 22 million people - WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that tuberculosis treatment has saved the lives of more than 22 million people. According to the global health regulating body, the number of people ill with TB fell in 2012 to 8.6 million, with global TB deaths also decreasing to 1.3 million. These...

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HealthNewsNG cited in Malaria Journal

A story published on HealthNewsNG.com has been cited in a research work published in Malaria Journal. The research was on "Perceptions of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) and barriers to adherence in Nasarawa and Cross River States in Nigeria" was carried out by...

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Leave your wives' breasts alone during breastfeeding, expert enjoins Nigerian men

Professor Angela Oyo Ita, commissioner for health, Cross River State has advised Nigerian men to keep away from their wives’ breast during breastfeeding. ...

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Q&A: lodox CIT will save the lives of many trauma patients in Nigeria - Pieter de Beer

Pieter De Beer is the Chied Executive Officer of lodox critical imaging technology. He spoke to HealthNewsNG.com about how the technology would improve trauma care at the National Hospital Abuja, the principle behind the technology and plans to have more lodox machines in the 6 geographical...

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Abasha African salad, others responsible for cholera outbreak - health commisioner

Lagos state has become the latest Nigerian state affected by cholera outbreak that has affected many states of the federation. Addressing an emergency press conference, the state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris confirmed there have been 13 cases of the disease while people are d...

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Abandoned by families, inspired by alms givers – Tale of 2 Nigerians living with polio

Paul ADEPOJU paul@healthnewsng.com Every day, around 5am, they make their ways to the popular Iwo Road bridge Ibadan, Nigeria from an isolated hut they've made their home after they were abandoned by their parents who left them in the hands of the lorry driver that drove them from Katsina...

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Expert makes case for proper management of stroke

Dr Peter Alabi, Chief Medical Director of University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, has made case for the proper management of stroke. This according to him is essential to reduce the risk of subsequent episodes....

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UCH did not perform the first open heart surgery in Nigeria - Dr. Awojobi Oluyombo

In 2008, my teacher and mentor, Prof SA Adebonojo, the pioneer cardiac surgeon at the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan in whose unit I started my residency in 1978, delivered a guest lecture at the 48th annual conference of the West African College of Surgeons titled Development of...

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National Hospital Abuja acquires lodox critical imaging technology

HealthNewsNG.com has exclusively gathered that the National Hospital Abuja has acquired lodox critical imaging technology and has become the first hospital in West Africa to acquire the only medical device in the world that gives high quality full body x-ray scan within 13 seconds....

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Elderly persons in Nigeria are highly depressed – Prof. Oye Gureje

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UCH Ibadan debuts open heart surgery in Nigeria

Nigeria's premier teaching hospital, the University College Hospital Ibadan has become the first hospital in Nigeria to perform an open heart surgery. The surgery was performed on a 19-year old boy to correct a leaking heart valve. According to Prof. Temitope Alonge, the operation lasted more...

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[UPDATED] Healthcare is a goldmine in Nigeria – Dr. Jide Idris

Dr. Jide Idris, Lagos state commissioner of health has described the Nigerian healthcare sector as a goldmine that is attracting international companies to the country. He stated this while declaring open Medic West Africa Exhibition & Congress 2013...

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Q&A: 2,500 visitors expected at Medic West Africa - informa life sciences

The much anticipated largest medical laboratory event in West Africa, the Medic West Africa officially begins today in Lagos, Nigeria with over 300 exhibitors and more 2500 exhibition visitors expected.  In June when HealthNewsNG.com spoke to Sanjay Sehgal, Exhibition Director Informa Life...

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Q&A: No end in sight for Nigerian resident doctors’ strike - Dr. Lawal Ismail Akinlade

Dr. Lawal Ismail Akinlade is the immediate past national president of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) which is currently trading blames with the Nigerian government over the protracted strike that is truncating healthcare services in many tertiary teaching hospitals across...

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Prolonged strike connotes irresponsibility on the side of government – resident doctors

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has disclosed that the prolongation of the strike its members embarked on is a sign of irresponsibility on the side of the Nigerian government. Dr. Lawal Ismail Akinlade, Immediate Past National President, Nigerian Association of Resident...

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Q&A: Charlotte Paige-Smith speaks on Africa Healthcare Summit 2014

On February 20th and 21st 2014, Africa's health ministers and professionals would gather in a 5-star hotel in London for the first-ever Africa Healthcare Summit organised by Oliver Kinross, an international business research organization. In this exclusive interview, Charlotte Paige-Smith,...

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Only a small fraction of African population can afford private healthcare - Oliver Kinross

Oliver Kinross, an international business research organization has revealed that a large proportion of the African population cannot afford private healthcare and rely on the public health sector....

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Medic West Africa Conference and Exhibitions set to kick off this Wednesday

informa life sciences and exhibitions, organizers of the Medic West Africa 2013 conference and exhibition have expressed their readiness to stage the event which holds this week at the Eko Convention Center, Eko Hotel Lagos, Nigeria....

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Minister and doctors trade blames over protracted strike

The ongoing strike embarked on by Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) will enter its third week tomorrow despite the health minister's declaration that the strike is illegal and unwarranted. ...

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2013 WSD Focuses on Universal Eye Health

Today marks this year's edition of the annual World Sight Day - a day set aside annually to raise awareness and take steps toward the prevention of avoidable blindness and the maintenance of good eye health. ...

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80 million Nigerians to get HIV screening in 2 years - Presidency

About 80 million Nigerians would undergo screening for the HIV virus in the next two years. This is in line with efforts aimed at raising the level of citizens' awareness of their HIV statuses. The exercise is part of the President's Comprehensive Response Plan (PCRP) for HIV/AIDS backed...

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Delta state hospital set to carry out renal transplants

Delta State University Teaching Hospital, Oghara would soon begin renal transplant according to the state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan. According to him, the hospital would commence the procedure not later than February 2014. ...

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Ekiti State Government Signs MoU with NHIS

The Ekiti State Government has signed Memorandum of Understanding with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS...

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Measles Immunization Programme Underway In Northern Nigeria

As part of efforts aimed at immunizing 35 million Nigerian children against measles, the Nigerian National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHDA) has announced it is carrying out immunization exercise in the northern region of Nigeria from October 5 to October 9. Ado Muhammad, NPHDA Executive...

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Thinking Pink In October

By Ifeoluwa Sylva We are in October, the World Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The breast cancer awareness month is an international health campaign organized each October to raise public awareness about breast cancer as well as raise funds for ongoing researches into the cause, prevention,...

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Resident doctors' strike hits hospitals across Nigeria as patients groan

The latest strike embarked upon by members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has affected healthcare services in affected government-owned hospitals across Nigeria. The association called its members to embark on the nationwide strike to compel the federal government of Nigeria...

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Banning alcohol and cigarettes at motor parks would increase the number of suicides, Nigerians warn

A cross section of smokers in Nigeria said they are more concerned about the quality of life they live and are less worried about living more years. This according to them is why they keep smoking and drinking alcoholic beverages despite the strong warnings that such lifestyles could put their...

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