Abuja ‒ In mid-March, 16-year-old Saifullahi Bulama, residing in Garin Mu’azu, located in Sule Tankankar Local Government Area (LGA) in Jigawa State, Nigeria, was healthy and running around with his friends. Sudden…
Read moreLagos - Sometime in February, Kazeem Ade, age seven, was recuperating from diphtheria on a hospital bed in the children's ward at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), in Lagos Southwest Nigeria. …
Read moreAbuja ‒ Despite being declared free of wild polio virus in 2020, Nigeria is experiencing an outbreak of circulating Variant Poliovirus, as well as other vaccine-preventable diseases, including measles, meningitis, choler…
Read moreAbuja, 7 April, 2023 - Nigeria joins the globe to commemorate the 2023 World Health Day, which also doubles as the 75th anniversary of the World Health Organization (WHO). On April 7, 1948, 55 member countries came to…
Read moreCalabar, 4 April, 2023 - Cholera is endemic in Nigeria. It is highly contagious and occurs in places without safe water and proper sanitation. It causes profuse diarrhoea and vomiting, and without treatment can quickly l…
Read moreOsun, 31 March, 2023 - “I was coughing out blood persistently for weeks, had fever, weakness, night sweats, severe chest pain. I had bought drugs from a patent medicine store, but it was not working. I was later…
Read moreAbuja - On 05 March 2021, Nigeria rolled out the COVID-19 vaccination campaign to curb transmission of the coronavirus disease in the country. Since then, the government and its partners, including the Worl…
Read more Sokoto, 21 March, 2023 - Mohammadu Usman a 22-year-old noma survivor has found a home at the Sokoto Noma Children’s Hospital in Sokoto State, located in the northwest region of Nigeria. Although he hails from Yobe…
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