Health

President Bola Tinubu has restated that his administration will revive and restore public confidence in the health sector in Nigeria. The President made the commitment on Monday in his office during an audience with leaders of Joint Health Sector Union, an affiliate of the Nigeria Labour Congress. President Tinubu harped …

A doctor who drew national attention in the United States for revealing she had performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim was reprimanded and fined by a medical board for violating patient privacy laws. The state of Indiana’s Medical Licensing Board found gynaecologist Caitlin Bernard had violated privacy laws …

The leadership of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its one-week warning strike which it embarked upon on Wednesday, May 17. President of the association, Dr. Emeka Orji, told Channels Television via a telephone conversation that the association suspended the action for two weeks after reaching some …

Doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) may likely call off their strike within the next 48 hours.This is the result of the reconciliation meeting the association had with the Federal Government, represented by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige on Friday. …

The Federal government will digitise the civil registration and vital statistics process and is targeting the registration of 12.7 million under-five children in 2023, an official has said. Matthew Sunday, the Director of Vital Registration Department, National Population Commission (NPC), said on Friday that with the digitisation, the commission plans …

Saudi Arabian surgeons have successfully separated Hassanah and Hussaina, the conjoined Nigerian twins.The surgery, which began on Thursday, lasted for 14 hours at the King Abdullah Specialist Hospital for Children. The twins, who were born in January 2022 at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Kaduna, were conjoined at the …

The Federal Government has begun construction of Abuja hub, one of the three mega stores planned for Abuja, Lagos and Kano for the purpose of massively expanding vaccine storage capacity at the national level in Nigeria. Speaking during the ground-breaking ceremony marking the commencement of the work yesterday, Minister of …

National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Osun State University Teaching Hospital Complex, Osogbo has backed out of the ongoing 5-day warning strike embarked upon by the national chapters as the state governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke approved all their outstanding demands. At the meeting attended by the leadership of the medical …

The federal government has threatened to hire ad-hoc doctors with salaries of the striking resident doctors. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, gave the hint during a Channels Television programme. The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) began a five-day warning strike, on Wednesday, over unmet demands. The …

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday inaugurate the state-of-the-art Presidential/VIP Wing of State House Medical Centre, Abuja.A statement on Wednesday by the State House Director of Information, Mr Abiodun Oladunjoye, described the project as a demonstration of the Buhari administration’s commitment to advancing healthcare management in the country. According to …