Health

African health ministers have endorsed a new strategy to boost access to the diagnosis, treatment and care of severe noncommunicable diseases. The health ministers, gathering for the 72nd session of the UN World Health Organisation (WHO)…

Former health minister Muhammad Ali-Pate has identified health security as critical in ensuring Nigeria’s socio-economic and political stability. “Health insecurity can also affect economic security. We saw a pandemic crippling the…

Uche Ojinmah, national president of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime to consider privatising the national hospitals. Mr Ojinmah stressed it had become necessary for both the teaching…

The Federal Government said plans to commence the Universal Health Coverage which would provide affordable and accessible health care to 83 million vulnerable Nigerians. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha,…

The United Nations says women working in the health and care sector earn nearly 25 per cent less than their male counterparts – a larger gender pay gap than in other economic sectors. A spokesman for the UN, Farhan Haq, disclosed this at…

Nurses, under the auspices of the University Graduates of Nursing Science Association (UGONSA), have expressed worry that Nigeria loses an estimated $2 billion (N1.1trillion) annually to medical tourism. This is contained in a communiqué…

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has directed the suspension of the state’s guidelines on safe termination of pregnancy. Professor Akin Abayomi, state Commissioner for Health, made the disclosure in a statement on Thursday in…

The federal government has introduced a new cigarette tax regime that will raise the price of a pack of 20 cigarettes from N58 to N84, while shisha will be taxed at N3,000 per litre. Making this disclosure at the launch of the Tobacco…