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INVESTIGATION: How medical referral kickback scheme makes healthcare expensive, ineffective

Medical referral kickback increases the cost of medical services by at least 20 per cent and is a leading cause of misdiagnosis and other medical complications.

COVID-19: For pregnant women, it’s a tougher battle

Adie Vanessa Offiong  Accessing healthcare on a normal day is difficult for many pregnant women in Nigeria. COVID-19 has made...
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Mental disorder affects more people in areas affected by conflict─WHO report

A WORLD Health Organisation study has shown that there are more people living with mental disorders in areas affected...

Development indices: Abuja versus Lagos ― What says the data?

  Nigeria is a country with one of the worst human development indices in the world, according to the United...
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INVESTIGATION: Moribund primary healthcare centres are fuelling infant, maternal mortality

Despite the multibillion-naira interventions of the Federal Government to curb the rising rate of maternal and Infant mortality in...

How Poor Nigerians Are Getting Quality Healthcare

The kind of local health insurance schemes being developed by state governments has been compelled by the failure of the National Health Insurance Scheme to serve majority of Nigerians.
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