Top Ten News Items on Health, 20 January 2017
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Lassa Fever: NCDC confirms cases in 7 states, advices on preparedness by hospitals and healthcare workers. NHIS covers cancer, other tertiary ailments…
Will revitalization of Primary Health Care lead to ‘BETTER HEALTH FOR ALL?’
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President Muhammadu Buhari last week commissioned the newly revitalized Kuchigoro PHC. The event also served to flag off the start of the…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 13 January 2017
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Nigeria flags off scheme to revive 10,000 primary health care centres. Millions of children to receive measles vaccine in north-eastern Nigeria. President…
Nigeria Health Watch: Stronger Together in 2017
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As 2017 dawns, we at Nigeria Health Watch continue our advocacy for the health sector of Nigeria’s dreams with a deep sense…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 06 January 2017
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Final trial results confirm Ebola vaccine provides high protection against disease. INTERVIEW: Nigeria’s health minister speaks on resident doctors, polio, tuberculosis, budget,…
The Elephant in the Room: Nigeria’s population growth crisis
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There have been many salient issues that we at Nigeria Health Watch have drawn to our audience’s attention in the span of…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 16 December 2016
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Full impact of devastated health services in north-eastern Nigeria revealed by WHO report. New WHO Country Representative formally assumes duties in Nigeria….
Can the ASLM Conference reinvigorate Laboratory Medicine in Nigeria?
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Iruka Okeke is at the University of Ibadan. She writes this week about the progress made in the world of laboratory medicine…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 09 December 2016
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Humanitarian emergency directors call for US$1 billion to meet the needs of 6.9 million people in Nigeria’s North East. Reps stop NHIS’s…
Has the Nigerian patient been “Failed by Angels?”
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This week in Abuja the Centre for the Right to Health (CRH) will hold the premiere of an advocacy documentary, “Failed by…