By Adeola Ogunlade Residents of Okunde Bluewater Zone, Lekki community in Lagos have benefited from a free comprehensive medical checkup outreach organised last week by Cedars House of Grace. The three days outreach drew about 500 people who gathered at the church premises in Twin Water, Lekki from as early as 10:00am. They were attended to by…
President Muhammadu Buhari says stronger partnership with the private sector will help in improving health facilities and access in the country, adding that a nation needs a healthy population to prosper. The president stated this on Tuesday in Abuja at the virtual groundbreaking ceremony of African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE), a landmark hospital project…
Doctors under the aegis of the Medical Guild have advised the public against letting down their guard as the festive season approaches, to avoid an emergence of COVID-19 fourth wave. Dr Oluwajimi Sodipo, Chairman of the Guild, gave the advice at a news conference announcing activities for the association’s scientific conference, in Lagos. The News…
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has moved a step further to provide a world class health facility in Nigeria for the benefit of all Africans, tagged “African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE). Prof. Benedict Oramah, President of the Afreximbank, spoke on Tuesday at the Groundbreaking Ceremony for the construction of the African Medical Centre of…
DAKAR, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Up to one million COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in Nigeria last month without being used, two sources told Reuters, one of the biggest single losses of doses that shows the difficulty African nations have getting shots in arms. Governments on the continent of over one billion people…
World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said work on an intellectual-property waiver aimed at widening vaccine access in poor countries will continue despite the sudden postponement of a meeting of key stakeholders this week. “The new variant should be a clarion call to all of us that we should now move speedily to agree this…
he Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), says it is monitoring emerging evidence on Omicron variant and its implication, to inform Nigeria’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Director General, NCDC, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, disclosed this in an variant was first identified from testing done on Nov. 9, 2021 in Botswana on travellers from West…
The Philippines has begun an ambitious campaign to vaccinate nine million people against COVID-19 over three days, as it temporarily suspended a decision to allow fully vaccinated tourists into the country after the emergence of the Omicron variant. The immunisation campaign was scaled back from an earlier target of 15 million shots, but would still…
The President of the Nigerian Medical Association, Prof Innocent Uja, has likened the way medical practitioners leave Nigeria to practise abroad to sitting on a time bomb. He therefore called on the Federal Government to do something urgent about the situation. This is just as the Joint Health Sector Union advised the government to improve…
