health sector

The USAID-Integrated Health Programme (IHP) has supported Kebbi Government in averting 1,053 maternal and child mortalities within five years of its intervention in the state. Shehu Salisu Dabai, the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning…

The Newly appointed Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare in Nigeria Prof. Ali Pate, has pledged his commitment to ensuring the effective implementation of policies that would enhance the standard of the Health Sector and…

The President of the Postgraduate Medical College Fellows' Association, Professor Akinsanya Osibogun has tasked the Nigerian Government to focus more on retaining skilled medical professionals in the country. Osibogun stated this while…

Faculty members of Public Health and Community Medicine in Nigeria have commended the Kwara State Governor, Abdul Rahman AbdulRazaq for his administration’s commitment to the sector through investments in infrastructure, payment of…

Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara state, on Thursday, received medical equipment and hospital-related items worth over N100 million, donated to Zamfara State Government by a medical firm. The donation was presented to the Governor at the…

A civil society organisation, Centre for Social Justices (CSJs) and other stakeholders in the health sector have solicited for a robust funding of the sector. The CSJ’s Lead Director, Mr Eze Onyekpere and the stakeholders, made the call in…

Governor of Kogi state, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, on Friday, commissioned the newly constructed two-storey Administrative block built by the Federal Teaching Hospital (FTH) Lokoja. READ ALSO:Kogi state: NIWA donates N5m, food items to flood…

Experts in the health sector have continued to seek improved regulations of health institutions for quality healthcare delivery in the country. They made the call at the Lunch and Learn stakeholder engagement meeting organised by the…

Stakeholders in the health sector have called for the integration of the public and private sectors to reduce maternal mortality, noting that such an integration is an effective strategy for reducing the incidence in the country. READ…

A former governor of Sokoto State, Senator Aliyu Wamakko, has called for the provision of more private hospitals, to help improve the health sector in the state. He stated this while commissioning a private hospital named ‘Foresight Premier…