HEALTH workers in federal tertiary hospitals in Nigeria have downed tools effective today, Thursday, May 25.
The workers, under the aegis of Joint Health Sector...
WORLD leaders and leading public health experts have signed a declaration seeking an end to cervical cancer.
The declaration was formally launched in Geneva on...
BENIN and Mali have eliminated trachoma, one of the 20 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
The two countries joined 15 other countries validated by the WHO...
THE National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has declared a five-day warning strike, effective Wednesday, May 17.
The group declared the strike after its National...
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) may declare a strike next Monday, May 15, The ICIR reports.
This follows the Federal Government's failure to...
NO FEWER than 20 million people have died of COVID-19 worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
The Director-General of the agency, Tedros Ghebreyesus,...
THE United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has advised Nigeria to recruit additional 70,000 midwives to help reduce maternal and child mortality in the country.
The...
THE National Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (NICRAT) has predicted that cancer cases will rise in Nigeria in the coming years.
In a statement...
