Health

FROM IMRANA ABDULLAHI Katsina state chairman of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, Comrade Muhammad Mannir Suleiman has tasked health workers in the state to register and acquire their Permanent Voter Card for the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The chairman stated this in a statement issued to newsmen …

  By Sani Gazas Chinade, Maiduguri     The Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has said that malnutrition and hunger have hit 2, 140 children living in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps and host communities of Borno State.     According to the doctors without borders, there should an urgent scale …

Parents and caregivers have been charged to ensure they Make their children available for vaccination as Kaduna State commences another round of polio immunization campaign.  The exercise is scheduled for 14th – 17th  May, 2022 and would be conducted on the streets, house to house, and markets, motor parks among …

Vaccinator Immunizing a child in kaduna photo by JAP  

The acting Governor of Kaduna state, Dr. Hadiza Sabuwa Balarabe has said COVID-19 Vaccination is compulsory in the state.   Speaking at the Launching of COVID-19 Vaccination at Magajin Gari, Kaduna North Local Government, Dr. Balarabe said the people of Kaduna state should ensure they go for the Vaccination.   …

  … Zulum is exceptional, says Minister, others     Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Tuesday launched Borno State’s Basic Healthcare Provision Fund, with the disbursement of N418m to 79 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) across the State.     Launch held at the Multipurpose Hall of the Government House in …

As the world celebrate world international HIV/ Aids day, the chair person of  a Non- governmental organization (Peace Ambassadors advocacy  to protect the right of children ,women, orphans and widows in Nigeria )MRS Deborah labari   has called on all Nigerians  to shun all forms of stigma ,discrimination or differences among …

  By Muhammad Lawal   Dr Zainab Bagudu, wife of Kebbi Governor, has organised a rally to drum support for collaborative efforts to end Gender Based Violence (GBV) and child abuse in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the rally tagged: “1st GBV Awareness Walk”, took-off …

    The National president, Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria Comr. Dr. Biobelemoye J. Josiah urged Health Information and Management students to join health institutions in order rescue the profession. Josiah stressed this while making his speech at a 2day capacity building and leadership retreat workshop organized by …

   As the world commemorates 2021 World Polio Day with the theme, “One Day. One Focus: Ending Polio – delivering on our promise of a polio-free world’’, a group, Journalists Initiative on Immunization Against Polio, (JAP), in collaboration with the World Health Organization, (WHO), and other partners on Sunday 24 …