Health
NPHCDA to explore Behavioral Science for Health Care interventions
Omolola Ajobiewe The National Primary Health Care Development Centre( NPHCDA), said it explores behavioral science approaches and human-centred designs for a more evidence-based interventions to strengthen demand for primary health care services in Nigeria. The Executive Director NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaib, disclosed on Wednesday, at the Official Close-out Ceremony of…
Read More »Nigeria: FG confirms plans to increase tax on tobacco products to 50%
The Federal Government of Nigeria has confirmed plans to increase excise tax on tobacco products from 30 per cent ad-valorem to 50 per cent as part of measures to control tobacco smoking in the country. Dr Mangai Malau, Head, Tobacco Control Unit, Noncommunicable Disease Division, Federal Ministry of Health disclosed…
Read More »UK Stop Active Recruitment Of Nigerian Doctors, Nurses, Other Health Workers
The United Kingdom has placed Nigeria on the red list of countries that should not be actively targeted for recruitment by health and social care employers. This is coming one month after the World Health Organisation listed 55 countries, including Nigeria facing the most pressing health workforce challenges related to…
Read More »UNICEF, UK Government float new project to protect children in north-east Nigeria
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the UK Government, have jointly floated a humanitarian intervention project to protect children in north-east Nigeria. The intervention project focused at providing integrated food, nutrition sanitation and protection services in Nigeria’s north-east region will empower…
Read More »Minister commends UNICEF, says Child Rights Curriculum in Polytechnic will expose rights of children
Concisedaily News – Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said that the new Child Rights Curriculum reporting for Polytechnic will bring a paradigm shift in reporting children and exposing them to the rights to survival, development, protection and participation. Speaking at a Two-Day Media Training organised…
Read More »UNICEF charges Nigerian government to increase investment in safe water
The issue of accelerating climate change is a more reason for the Nigerian government to invest in safer water for everyone, according to the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF). Chief of WASH UNICEF, Dr. Jane Bevan said on Wednesday in Abuja at an event to commemorate the 2023 World Water…
Read More »Diphtheria Kills 61 In Kano
Kano state has been hit by a deadly outbreak of diphtheria infection, with 61 lives lost as of March 2, 2023, CHANNELS TV reports. Diphtheria is a bacterial infection that affects the throat and upper airways, causing difficulty in breathing, heart failure, and even death. The disease is highly contagious…
Read More »Psychiatrist advises Nigerians to stay positive, avoid depression despite fuel, naira scarcity
A Professor of Psychiatric Medicine, Prof. Monday Igwe, has advised Nigerians to stay positive in the midst of scarcity of fuel and the redesigned Naira notes in order to overcome depression and other mental complications. Igwe, who is the Medical Director of Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu, gave the advice while…
Read More »Nigeria: Health experts charge FG to make antenatal, family planning free
With Nigeria accounts for over 34% of global maternal deaths while the lifetime risk of dying during pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, or after an abortion for a Nigerian woman is one in 22, compared to one in 4900 in developed countries, health stakeholders and experts have called on the Nigerian government…
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