There are fears that many other patients will lose their lives following the disconnection power supply to the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, AKTH by the Kano Electricity Distribution Company, KEDCO.Already the management of the Hospital, has appealed to the Kano Read more…
A civil society group, Centre For Human Rights And Advocacy In Africa Network, has condemned the demolition of the Margaret Lawrence University Teaching Hospital (MLUTH) multi-billion naira Cancer Center by officials of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on Saturday. Read more…
Surrounded by incubators, a red tube snaking into her tiny nose, four-day-old Grace-Ella is being fed donated breastmilk at the only facility in Kenya that offers the life-giving service. The breastmilk bank at Pumwani Maternity Hospital is one of the Read more…
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its five-day nationwide warning strike. NARD explained that the suspension followed its virtual Extraordinary National Executive Council (E-NEC) meeting on September 13, 2025. The association disclosed in a statement on Read more…
The Vice Chancellor of the David Umahi Federal University of Health Sciences (DUFUTHS) Uburu, Ebonyi State, Professor Jesse Uneke has said that at least 24 million Nigerians are currently living with sight loss. Uneke, a Professor of Medical Parasitology & Read more…
Conjoined twins, Hassana and Husaina, have returned to Nigeria after undergoing a complex and successful separation surgery in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The young girls, who were previously joined at the lower abdomen, pelvis, and spine, arrived quietly Read more…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has seized fake Malaria drugs worth ₦1.2bn in Lagos State. NAFDAC in a statement on Friday said the drugs were intercepted in the Ilasa-Oshodi area of the South-West Read more…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has confiscated fake malaria drugs valued at N1.2 billion in Lagos State. NAFDAC made this revelation in a statement on Friday, stressing that the drugs were seized in the Read more…
Kebbi State Governor, Nasir Idris, has approved the immediate suspension of the state’s Commissioner for Health Yunusa Musa Ismail. The decision follows a directive from the governor requesting the Commissioner to provide a detailed explanation for alleged negligence of Read more…
Cystic fibrosis was once a dire, likely deadly diagnosis, destroying a patient’s ability to breathe and digest food — but a revolutionary new treatment offers reason for hope. And on Thursday the three scientists who developed the clinical advance Read more…