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...