The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has chosen seven states: Delta, Enugu, Gombe, Jigawa, Niger, Osun, Sokoto and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for the production of medicines. Prof. Mohammed Sambo, Director-General of NHIA disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) with 12 pharmaceutical companies and eight Drugs Management Organizations (DMOs). He said the states would be pilot phase of...

Anambra first lady, Mrs Nonye Soludo has called for urgent action to to modify the over-production and over-consumption of foods and beverages that do not have healthy production and nutritional history. Mrs Soludo who stated this in Awka, while running a review of her healthy living projects over the last month, noted that she was very concerned about excessive consumption of foods with high content of sodium, sugar and unhealthy fats as against low intake...

In a bid to check the outbreak of diphtheria in the country, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate has constituted an emergency taskforce. It will be recalled that there have been cases of diphtheria found in 14 states, with Kano serving as the epicenter. The ED/EOC of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib and the Director General of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control...

Taraba State government has constituted a special task force that would checkmate quackery in the medical profession in the state. Dr. Bodiya Buma, Commissioner for Health, who disclosed this weekend, said Governor Agbu Kefas has given the ministry a march to checkmate activities of quackery in the profession. He said the task force will comprise only medical professionals, and security agencies to ensure that the state ceases to become a dumping ground for fake drugs....

Gawi is a cosmopolitan community in Fufore local government area Northeast Nigeria, with over 1000 inhabitants mostly livestock breeders and peasant farmers. The community which is about 7 km drive from Fufore town, the administrative headquarters of the local government area is facing challenges in health facilities. The only existing health post is a mud apartment constructed through communal efforts by the community under the Bamako Drug Revolving Fund Programme about 30 years ago as...