Mobile App to Prevent Skin Cancer Launched, Available for Download

HealthNewsWorld NewsMobile App to Prevent Skin Cancer Launched, Available for Download

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)June 23, 2022

In a move to achieve the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal 3, which aims to ensure healthy lives and well-being worldwide by 2030, a consortium of UN agencies on Tuesday launched an innovative mobile application that would help curb skin cancer. The application, the collective brainchild of the World Health Organisation (WHO), the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), was launched to help protect individuals...

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48 Million Nigerians Still Defecate Openly- Report

EnvironmentHealth48 Million Nigerians Still Defecate Openly- Report

PilotnewsJune 21, 2022

ABUJA — No fewer than 48 million Nigerians still practice open defecation, according to the newly released 2021 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene National Outcome Routine Mapping (WASH-NORM) III Report. This is the thrust at the inauguration of the 2021 WASH-NORM III Report in Abuja on Tuesday. The Minister of Water Resources, Mr. Suleiman Adamu, said slow progress being made in improving water and sanitation services was due to population expansion, low commitments from states and...

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Patriotic Enugu Indigene Donates Medical Equipment To Udenu Type 3 Healthcare Centre, Orba Enugu

HealthNewsWellnessPatriotic Enugu Indigene Donates Medical Equipment To Udenu Type 3 Healthcare Centre, Orba Enugu

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)June 16, 2022

ENUGU — The healthcare centre in Orba Udenu Local Government Area, Enugu State has received some medical equipment from Dave Ogbonnaya Ugwu, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dumaco Best Properties Limited. Some of the equipment includes two Neonatal incubators, phototherapy machine, two Radiant warmers, a portable Anesthetic machine, and others. Presenting the equipment to Udenu Type-3 Healthcare centre in the presence of the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Ikechukwu Obi, and the management team of the...

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Tems Diagnosed With Reflux Laryngitis, Takes A Break From Music

EntertainmentHealthNewsTems Diagnosed With Reflux Laryngitis, Takes A Break From Music

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)June 14, 2022

Nigerian singer and songwriter, Temilade Openiyi, known as Tems, has been diagnosed with Reflux Laryngitis, a voice disorder that results from irritation and swelling of the vocal folds. Tems disclosed the sad development via her social media pages. The singer’s heartfelt note to her fans read: “It breaks my heart to say this but there’s no other option for me. I’m not feeling too good at the moment. “After my last performance, I was diagnosed...

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National Hospital Abuja Upgraded To 500-Bed Hospital-CMD

HealthNewsNational Hospital Abuja Upgraded To 500-Bed Hospital-CMD

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 13, 2022

The Chief Medical Director of the National Hospital Abuja Dr, Jaf Monoh has said the hospital was upgraded to a 500-bed hospital with its new 50-bed-space cancer centre. Monoh at a press briefing in Abuja said the new cancer centre would enable the hospital to move cancer patients to the same environment, unlike before when the patients were sharing the general wards with other patients. “We have about 50 beds in the new cancer centre...

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Cerebrospinal Meningitis Kills 65 Children Jigawa State

HealthNewsCerebrospinal Meningitis Kills 65 Children Jigawa State

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 11, 2022

No fewer than 65 children have died as a result of the outbreak of Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) in the state, Jigawa State Ministry of Health says. According to state epidemiologist at the Ministry of Health, Samaila Mahmud while speaking to newsmen said the state has recorded over 257 cases in 18 out of the 27 local government areas in the state as a result of the disease. “Out of the number of cases recorded so...

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230 Plots Of Land In Enugu Restored To Health Workers As State Governor Steps In

HealthNews230 Plots Of Land In Enugu Restored To Health Workers As State Governor Steps In

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)June 11, 2022

Battle over ownership of Villa Estate sitting on 230 plots of lands acquired by health workers from Ozalla Abor community in 2015 has finally come to a positive end as the Enugu State Government reverses the revocation of the lands by immediate past Commissioner for Lands and Urban Development. According to the Land Use Act, revocation of lands must be with the consent of the State Governor but Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Enugu State Governor denied knowledge...

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Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital, MAUTH, Yola Receive CT Scanner Machine

HealthNewsNigeriaModibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital, MAUTH, Yola Receive CT Scanner Machine

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 10, 2022

The Presidential Committee on the North East Initiative (PCNI), with the intervention of the Petroleum Equalization Fund (PEF), has handed over the state-of-the-art machine to the management of the Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital, MAUTH, Yola, Adamawa state. With high tech medical facilities such as the GE Revolution Evo 128 Slice CT, which was test run, and had the staff with radiology department trained for effective management of the machine, the MAUTH Yola has started...

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Pharmacists Council of Nigeria Seals 25,000 Illegal Premises In 8 Years

HealthNewsStandards & Consumer ProtectionPharmacists Council of Nigeria Seals 25,000 Illegal Premises In 8 Years

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 9, 2022

ABUJA — The outgoing Registrar, Pharmacists Council of Nigeria Elijah Mohammed has revealed that the council has sealed about 25,000 illegal premises across the country in the last eight years. Mohammed, during the presentation of his scorecard as registrar of the council from June 2014 to June 2022 on Tuesday in Abuja, said Nigeria would have about 30 faculties of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences by the end of this year. “The offences of the sealed...

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Compendium Of Best Practices Of National Tuberculosis Launch In Abuja

HealthNewsWellnessCompendium Of Best Practices Of National Tuberculosis Launch In Abuja

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 3, 2022

ABUJA — The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has launched a compendium of Best practices of the National Tuberculosis, Leprosy, and Buruli Ulcer Control Programme in Abuja to serve as a reference point for other public health responses. At the inauguration in Abuja, the Minister said the document which was a compilation of strategic interventions in the fight against TB would be useful for stakeholders in the sector. He explained that it was in...

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