Health and Family Minister, Catherine Vautrin, made this known on Thursday, where she noted that “The freedom to smoke stops where children’s right to breathe clean air starts.” The rule will also stop students from smoking in front of schools. Anyone who breaks the rule may be fined up to €135 ($154). However, the ban […]
The Federal Government has said it would activate surveillance measures for inbound passengers from China following the current surge of a respiratory virus.
The one-week session is a resumption of the 12th round of negotiations, which lasted from November 4 to 15. The talks at the World Health Organization’s headquarters in Geneva opened three years on from the decision to draft a new accord on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response taken in the heat of Covid-19 crisis. Concluding […]
The World Health Organisation and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have committed to guiding the development of targeted mpox vaccine preparedness and deployment plans to ensure the efficient use of available doses.
According to statements from the Centers for Control and Disease Prevention and Centers for Control and Disease Prevention , the patient, who has underlying conditions, was admitted to hospital on August 22, received antiviral medications against influenza, then recovered and was discharged, Because the patient’s flu type appeared suspicious on an initial test, it was sent […]
The Director of Public Health in the ministry, Stephenson Ojeifo, announced this during a news conference in Benin. Ojeifo said that the six confirmed cases were identified among the 40 suspected cholera cases recorded to date in the state. He noted that while awaiting the results, the patients were managed in accordance with cholera management […]
A family physician, Oluwafolajimi Senjobi, said that increasingly, attending to the health needs of Nigerian patients is becoming more difficult because a good doctor-patient relationship, has been hampered by economic meltdown, high cost of medication, overhead costs on health deliverables and doctors’s burnout. According to him, difficult patients are usually demanding, noncompliant, dependent, and exhibiting […]
Results of a peer-review study published in Nature Medicine established the study conducted by the Universities of Oxford and Liverpool and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, vaccination against Lassa Fever – a viral disease spread by rodents and contaminated food – would shield millions of people from contracting the illness and the expensive medical […]
Omori, who has been battling kidney disease, underwent a transplant on August 26 at St. Nicholas Hospital in Lagos. The music video director said he went into surgery three times for the transplant, yet it was not successful. Portable, a singer, berated celebrities in the heat of public discourse around Omori’s health, claiming they did […]