… Saw Palmetto cancer drug price surges from N65,000 to N200,000 in just one year. Key points: Patients now result to use of unregulated drugs Essential medicine scarce, out of stock Major health crisis looms as prices of drugs prices soar How GSK’s exit complicates Nigeria’s drug problem Government need to promote localization of pharmaceutical […]Continue Reading
By Daniel Adaji In the 2023 budget, the health sector was allocated N1.17 trillion, but this has not changed the sloppy allocation and releases of health funds in the country, data analysis by the development Research and Project Centre (dRPC) has revealed. FGN has only about three months to release all funds allocated to the […]Continue Reading
… Demands to know hospital’s problems … To spend days in Bama for humanitarian activities By Daniel Adaji Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Monday night showed up unannounced at the General Hospital in Bama for on-the-spot monitoring of healthcare services’ delivery to the public. Professor Zulum visited the hospital at 10pm, not […]Continue Reading
By Theophilus Abbah Though emigration of doctors from Nigeria to developed countries is not a new phenomenon, a recent survey has revealed that the current rate of emigration by doctors which intensified in that last three years may be injurious to the country’s health sector. The survey conducted NOI Poll and Nigeria Health Watch showed […]Continue Reading
By Daniel Adaji President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja welcomed the exploratory interactions, between Nigerian biomedical scientists, officials of the Federal Ministry of Health and BioNTech company, to support the production of messenger RNA vaccines in Nigeria. The President met wit Mr. Holm Kellerh , the Executive Chairman of KENUP Foundation and representative of Continue Reading
Daniel Adaji Since December 2016, Lassa fever infection has been on the rise in the country, as the number of confirmed cases and deaths of health workers and their patients is on the increase. Between 2016 and 2022, Nigeria has recorded 4,308 confirmed cases and 978 confirmed deaths, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease […]Continue Reading
Deliberations center on revitalizing healthcare services threatened by COVID-19 (Abuja, Nigeria, APRIL 7, 2021) Marking World Health Day, youth leaders and civil society groups from across Nigeria are urging the government to invest in equity enhancing strategies to restore crumbling services for women, newborns, children, and adolescents. This year’s annual celebration is Continue Reading
By Theophilus Abbah They don’t belong to the bracket of quack doctors, who dispense drugs and inject victims with satanic and murderous dosage of chemicals. They are not medical college dropouts, who hypnotize unsuspecting public with precise medical language and overstretch their incomplete knowledge to administer pharmaceutical drugs and perform surgeries that maim and Continue Reading