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....
Ebola vaccine should be ready for public use by next year - WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised hopes concerning the management of Ebola virus. It said an Ebola vaccine should be ready for public use by 2015....
Ebola: Nigeria recruiting volunteers, offers life insurance-included compensation packages
As part of efforts aimed at battling the spread of Ebola virus disease in Nigeria, the Nigerian government in partnership with the government of Lagos state are recruiting volunteers....
Crisis in NMA, president resigns
The president of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Dr. Kayode Obembe, has tendered his resignation from the position following internal discord within the association over the decision to suspend the association's one month old strike...
Ebola: Nigeria's NMA striking doctors call off strike
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has suspended its nationwide industrial action as a result of the ongoing battle to tackle Ebola virus disease in Nigeria and to prevent an outbreak...
Ebola: Why we must embrace integrative medicine in Nigeria
The health community has once more been thrown into
confusion by another deadly, traumatizing outbreak, known popularly as the “Ebola Outbreak”. ...
Experimental Ebola drug to become more widely available
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it would
convene a meeting of medical ethics experts next week to consider the
implications of making experimental Ebola drugs more widely available....
Nigeria's illegal borders raise concerns over Ebola spread
There are fresh fears that porous
Nigerian land borders may thwart the Federal Government’s efforts to
check the spread of the deadly Ebola virus in the country....
REPORT: Do medical missions really help?
Medical missions have grown in relevance in Nigeria over the past 20
years. This is largely as a consequence of the failure of the health
system to serve the poor. In the conventional sense, medical missions
usually involve a group of physicians and other health workers
travelling to a foreign...
Mobile platform helps users make informed health decisions
Mobile
phone is changing how people access health information in Nigeria. Mobile savvy
entrepreneurs and organizations are developing different applications and
services to improve the digital lifestyle of Nigerians while impacting their
health....
Initiative launched to improve access to HIV diagnostics
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) have joined with global partners to launch the Diagnostics Access Initiative which calls for improving laboratory capacity to ensure that all people living with HIV can be linked to effective,...
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