Kano State Government has commenced closure of defaulting private health facilities for non-payment of renewal fees for 2020. This was contained in a state-issued by Kano State Private Health Institutions Management Agency (PHIMA), Executive Secretary, Dr. Usman Tijjani Aliyu on Monday The statement said “some of the facilities closed include Baraka clinic and Maternity, Darmanawa, M. D. G. Specialist Hospital, Ribadu road in Tarauni local government of the state among others. “The exercise is continuous...

Nigeria is at moderate risk of experiencing an Ebola outbreak according to the National Centre For Disease Control (NCDC). This according to the disease control centre is a result of the country’s proximity to Guinea, which recently experienced an outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The centre disclosed this in its health advisory released on Thursday. The NCDC noted that the cases and deaths were reported in the N’zerekore region of the country, declaring...

ABUJA —  National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has developed a roadmap for electronic NHIS (e-NHIS) that will help to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), its Executive Secretary, Prof. Mohammed Sambo, said. He disclosed this when he visited the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr. Buki Ponle, on Wednesday in Abuja. Sambo, who said that the scheme had been working toward reforming its activities, noted that part of which was the digitalisation...