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...

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...

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...

No fewer than 66 suspected cases of Monkeypox have been recorded between 1st January to 29th May 2022, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), says. According to the centre, 21 were confirmed in nine States; with Adamawa State leading with 5, Lagos, 4; Cross River, 2; FCT, 2; Kano, 2; Delta, 2; Bayelsa, 2; Rivers, 1; and Imo, 1. The NCDC further said, a case of a 40-year-old man, who died of renal co-morbidity and...

The Minister of Women Affairs Dame Pauline Tallen, has called for inclusion of women and girls with disability in the advocacy for menstrual health as the world marks 2022 Menstrual Health and Hygiene Management Day. Tallen made the call in Abuja at training organised by a non-governmental organisation Tabitha Cumi Foundation in commemoration of the 2022 Menstrual Health and Hygiene Management Day celebration at the Abuja School of the Deaf, Kuje. “Infrastructure design is an...

The federal government has created a pad bank for female National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) staff and corps members in case of emergency menstrual flow. A statement by the director of press and public relations at the Ministry of Women Affairs, Eddy Megwa, said Pauline Tallen, women affairs minister unveiled the bank at the NYSC headquarters in Abuja. She emphasised the need for continuous sensitisation of the female children and adults to menstrual and personal...