The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. Suleiman Age Abdulkareem, has charged the newly inducted students of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, to concentrate on the development of new indigenous drugs for critical ailments to make access to...
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Friday flagged a statewide campaign to curtail malaria, calling it one of the first fruits of his early interventions in the health sector where he recently paid N232m counterpart funds.
The campaign, named Malaria-Free-Kwara,...
The Threshold of Hope Foundation on Tuesday indiscriminately settled hospital bills of all the patients in the Children Ward 3 of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, (UITH).
ROYAL NEWS reports that the beneficiaries of the gesture are children of...
Dr. Yusuf Abdulraheem, the Chief Medical Director (CMD), Yusjib Industrial Medicare, Ilorin, says it took the hospital several hours of intensive care to resuscitate two patients who ingested snipper on Wednesday.
Dr Abdulraheem told newsmen in Ilorin on Thursday that...
A Non-Governmental Organisation, Kings Health and Development Initiative and the Coalition on Hepatitis Civil Society on Monday call on all tiers of Government to save people's lives by investing on eradication of Hepatitis in Nigeria.
Mr Ayo Olanipekun, the Project...
Aminat Isah, Abuja
The Management of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has drawn the attention of the general public, especially the consumers of animal hides popularly known as 'Ponmo' in local parlance on the...
Aminat Isah, Abuja
Nigeria's First Lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari have called called on stakeholders to intensify collaborative effort a bid to stem the continuous rising tide of tuberculosis disease (TB) in Nigeria.
The First lady gave the call at the National...
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has exonerated National Eye Center, Kaduna from Avastin crisis.
The agency in its laboratory test report said that the Avastin drug conform with standard certification process as the avastin drug...
Aminat Isah, Abuja
Health experts have decried the 76% medication deficit funding needed for the elimination in Nigeria.
Speaking to journalists at a press briefing of Stop TB Partnership Nigeria in Abuja on Tuesday ahead of the Lagos TB Forum and...
Senate, on Thursday, resolved to increase budgetary allocation for the management of primary health care, PHC to further boost the purpose for which it was adopted in 1988 by the National Health Policy.
This was sequel to a motion, "The...