Enugu State Partners With Fr. Mbaka To Build Hospital, Waste Management Plant And Factories

HealthInvestingNewsEnugu State Partners With Fr. Mbaka To Build Hospital, Waste Management Plant And Factories

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)May 4, 2022

ENUGU — The Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has declared his administration’s intentions to support a proposal by a British firm, HP Kapital Limited to build a 500-bed University Hospital, three factories, a waste management plant and other facilities within the vicinity of the Adoration Ministry in Enugu. The Governor disclosed this when he received in the audience the fiery Roman Catholic priest and Spiritual Director Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria, AMEN, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka,...

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Over 602,000 Died of Malaria Last Year – WHO

HealthWorld NewsOver 602,000 Died of Malaria Last Year – WHO

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 26, 2022

No fewer than 602,000 people died of malaria across Africa last year, an official of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO’s Regional Director for Africa, said this on Monday in her message to commemorate this year’s World Malaria Day tagged ‘Harness innovation to reduce the malaria disease burden and save lives’. “Malaria remains a significant public health and development challenge,” she declared. “In the last year, about 95 per cent...

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ExxonMobil Foundation Renews Commitment to End Malaria in Nigeria

HealthPhilanthropyExxonMobil Foundation Renews Commitment to End Malaria in Nigeria

PilotnewsApril 25, 2022

ExxonMobil Foundation, in collaboration with ExxonMobil affiliate companies and other orgnisations have renewed their commitments to end malaria in the country. Mr. Richard Laing, the Managing Director, ExxonMobil Affiliate in Nigeria, said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja as part of efforts to end malaria scourge in the country. Laing said that the move was to support ongoing programmes that would reduce the burden of malaria in the country. He added that for...

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99% Of Private Hospitals In Nigeria Lack Registered Pharmacies

Health99% Of Private Hospitals In Nigeria Lack Registered Pharmacies

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 25, 2022

Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) says more than 99 percent of private hospitals in Nigeria run unregistered pharmacies. National Chairman and Secretary of the Adewale Oladigbolu and Ezeh Ambrose, in a statement, said those hospitals lacked pharmacists to superintend dispensing and counselling of drug-related endeavours. The association was reacting to a statement by the Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, Tajudeen Sanusi, that private hospitals in Nigeria were the centres...

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It Is Unsafe To Immediately Get Pregnant After Miscarriage – Experts

HealthNewsIt Is Unsafe To Immediately Get Pregnant After Miscarriage – Experts

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 17, 2022

LAGOS — Fertility and reproductive health experts have said it is unsafe for women who just experience miscarriage to get pregnant immediately. The experts explained that after a pregnancy loss, there is a raw wound in the uterus that takes about three months to heal properly. According to them, medically, a woman is expected to wait for at least three to six months before attempting to get pregnant again. A Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at...

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Health Facilities In Hong Receives Hospital Equipment From HDA Women Wing Abuja Branch

HealthNewsPhilanthropyHealth Facilities In Hong Receives Hospital Equipment From HDA Women Wing Abuja Branch

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 17, 2022

YOLA — The Women wing of Hoba Development Association, Abuja branch has donated assorted hospital equipment worth hundreds of thousands of naira to health care facilities across the seven districts in Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa state. The donation is part of humanitarian activities carried out by the group in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, and other parts of the country. The items include Pads, Umbilical cords, Bedsheets, Blood Pressure monitoring devices, Hand...

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Scientists Develop Technique That Can Reverse Ageing Process By 30 Years

HealthNewsResearch & DevelopmentScientists Develop Technique That Can Reverse Ageing Process By 30 Years

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 17, 2022

Researchers have developed a new technique for rejuvenating skin cells, which can reverse the aging process and rewind the biological clock of patients by 30 years. The new research was conducted at the Babraham Institute, a life sciences research organisation in Cambridge, and the results were published in the journal eLife. “Excitingly, our method substantially rejuvenated multiple cellular attributes including the transcriptome, which was rejuvenated by around 30 years as measured by a novel transcriptome...

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37 Inmates Infected by Monkeypox in Adamawa

Health37 Inmates Infected by Monkeypox in Adamawa

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 15, 2022

YOLA — 37 inmates at the Jimeta Correctional Centre in Yola North local government area of Adamawa State were affected by Monkeypox. Health authorities said. Adamawa State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Isa Abdullahi while addressing journalists at the Specialist Hospital Jimeta Thursday said due to health interventions all the affected persons recovered without any death recorded. “Adamawa State recently recorded its first-ever confirmed cases of monkeypox early this year 2022. After a few weeks, an...

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The Female Wonders ―What You Do Not Know About the Vagina

ColumnsHealthLifestyleThe Female Wonders ―What You Do Not Know About the Vagina

PilotnewsApril 6, 20221

Let me guess. You are here because you have a vagina or are a friend of the vagina. Either way, you are welcome. Read through these genitalic words: “ikpu”, “toto”, cunt, camel toe, puna, fish lips, coochie, cookie, bearded clam, paradise, golden palace, papaya and most common of all, pussy. Apart from “ikpu (the Igbo word) and “toto” (the Yoruba expression), the reason why the vagina is coded as other slangy words might be because...

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FG Disburses N200,000 Grant to Local Producers of Assistive Devices

BusinessHealthFG Disburses N200,000 Grant to Local Producers of Assistive Devices

PilotnewsApril 6, 2022

LOKOJA — The Federal Government has disbursed N200, 000 each to some identified local producers of assistive devices across the 36 states of the federation. Hajia Sadiya Umar Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development (FMHADMSD) said this at a three-day capacity building workshop for Local Producers of Assistive Technologies (AT) in Lokoja, Kogi. The minister explained that the ministry in collaboration with state governments had earlier in 2018, through a forum...

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