Stakeholders in the health sector have been urged to continue to sensitize health workers on the safety of COVID-19 vaccine by the Permanent Secretary of Ondo State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Francis Akanbiemu.
Category: Health
Retired police officers can now benefit from health insurance in Nigeria, courtesy of the Nigeria police
Former Bayelsan senator Ben Murray-Bruce has given an insight into the everyday life in America.
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus
The case is a Kenyan citizen who travelled back to Nairobi, returning from the United States of America via London, United Kingdom, on March 5, 2020
The Ondo State government, today 16th August 2019, marks the introduction of Meningitis Vaccine into the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) Schedule at a ceremony well attended by stakeholders from different sectors.
A consultant nephrologist, Dr. Mojeed Owolabi Olaitan Rafiu, has berated hospital management that have haemodialysis facilities but fail to make provisions for HIV/Hepatitis patients, describing such policy as inhuman and wicked.
11 babies have reportedly died from Kenyatta National Hospital last week in the neonatal unit of the hospital.
Brain drain is a major challenge facing the Nigerian health system, leading to a dramatic reduction in the number of doctors in the country. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Nigeria is one of the three leading African sources of foreign-born physicians.
A new novel research conducted by Harvard researchers has found that young people that eat diets rich in western junk foods are irreversibly wiping off their sperm-making cells and damaging their fertility in a manner that cannot be undone .
In an apparent move to curtail the spread of measles outbreak in New York, the Governor, Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill Thursday that ends vaccination exemptions based on religious beliefs for required vaccines.
The Ondo State government has announced that, from tomorrow Saturday 15th to Tuesday 18th June 2019, the second round of Outbreak Response (OBR) campaign om Polio will be carried out across the 18 LGAs of the State.
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, MFR, has described as “deplorable and substandard” the current state of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State.
The Bill establishing University of Medical Sciences in Ondo State has been signed into Law by Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN.
Legalisation of medical marijuana, also known as cannabis, is one of the most controversial state policies of the last 20 years across the globe. Recently, the debate took the centre stage in a South-West State in Nigeria – Ondo State.
The Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, has blamed the deplorable state of tertiary health institutions in the country on the inability of state governors to fund basic primary and secondary health facilities in their respective states.
The World Health Organisation has announced four new Goodwill Ambassadors. The announcement was made in Geneva today by WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in his opening Speech at the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva.
Individuals who live healthy life-style are less likely to develop Dementia unlike those who do not.
he Government of Nigeria has disbursed NGN12.7 billion to kickstart the Basic Health Care Provision fund.
The Nigeria Union of Local Government Workers (NULGE), Ondo State Chapter, under the leadership of Comrade Bola Taiwo on Wednesday, 15th of May, 2019 inaugurated a special Health Scheme for all its workers across the state.
