Toto LG Chair, Monarch Shower Encomium on Executive Sec. NPHCDA for Reconstructing Umaisha Community Clinic with State of Art Facilities. “… Calls on state govt, to deploy more health personnel for effective services…” The First Class Traditional Ruler of Egbira People in Nasarawa State the Ohimegye Opanda Umaisha, HRH Alh. Usman Abdullahi has given Dr…
Lokoja Based Pharmacist, Okpala Ifeoma Call On Governments At All Levels to Accommodate Challenges Not Captured In Their Policies Governments at all levels have been urged to continue to expand their scope by sponsoring health intervention programs that will accommodate those challenges not captured in their current policies in the health sector. A pharmacist working…
How New York female patient successfully cured of HIV It is no longer news that A woman referred to as ‘The New York patient’ who do not want her name in print reportedly become the first female to be cured of HIV. This, the health expert said the development was said to have been announced…
Kidney Transplant: 48-Year-Old Kogi Indigene Taiwo Hassan Idris Needs N9.7m By Idris Ahmed, Lokoja. A 48 Year Old Taiwo Hassan Idris, an indigene of Kogi State is begging for financial assistance to enable him to undergo a kidney transplant. Taiwo Hassan Idris needs N9,680,000.00 for a kidney transplant session of plasmapheresis. He hails from Okene…
Abuja South Lawmaker Procures N39.8m Drugs, Equipments For Rural Clinics. By Sadiq Abubakar, Abuja. A member of the house of representatives for Abuja south federal constituency, Hon Hassan Usman Sokodabo, has distributed drugs and equipment worth N39, 850, 000.64 to three rural clinics across his constituency. Sokodabo, who disclosed to newsmen during the distribution of…
Hon. Tashas Tasks Women In Toto LG To Present Their Children For Immunisation. In a bid to ensure total compliance to the ongoing OBR ( outbreak response) exercise in Toto local government, the Executive chairman Toto local government council Hon Abdullahi Aliyu Tashas, on Monday paid an unscheduled visit to officials of health workers in…
State FCT Minister, Expresses President Buhari’s Commitment To Address Healthcare Delivery Challenges. FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has assured that the Administration will do everything possible to strengthen the entire routine immunization structure and primary health care landscape in the FCT in total commitment to the vision of Mr. President to polio…
Nasarawa Assembly Urged State Govt. to Engage More health Personnel Read more Budget 2022: Nasarawa Assembly will support Govt. MDAs for efficient Service Delivery – Keffi East Lawmaker Nasarawa State House of Assembly has called on the State Government to employ more doctors, nurses, and midwives for effective healthcare services in State. This, the House…
Aisha Buhari Commissions Diabetes, Endocrine Centre At UniAbuja Hospital The wife of the president, Aisha Buhari, last Thursday, commissioned the Diabetes and Endocrine center built by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the University of Abuja teaching hospital, Gwagwalada Abuja. Buhari, while commissioning the center, which was named after Prof Felicia Anumah, the Endocrine…
A 30 years old young lady from Okene, Kogi State Miss Faith, who has been bedridden for the last six months has appealed to spirited individuals, government, and corporate organizations to come to her aid to upset her medical bills that had accumulated to the sum of N2.3 million at Shifaah Hospital in Lokoja….
The Federal Capital Territory Administration has flagged off mass vaccination campaign against the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, targeting over 1.5 million residents in the next 50 days across the six area councils. FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, while performing the exercise at the Old Parade ground in Abuja, noted that the…
By Sadiq Abubakar, Abuja. A Non Governmental Organization (NGO) Eye Plus Vision For Africa Initiative is to commence free eye treatment to 230 patients in Toto local government area of Nasarawa state. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the Chairman on Media and publicity, Idris Yahaya, which was made available to newsmen…
In a press statement signed by Senior Special Assistant, SSA, to the Chairman on Media and Publicity, Yahaya Idris, said the Chairman Toto local government council, Hon. Aliyu Abdullahi A. Tashas has played host to a Non Governmental Organization, NGO, Eye Plus Vision for African Initiative in his office, on Monday. The NGO, is…
President of the Nigerian Infectious Diseases Society (NIDS), Prof. Dimie Ogoina, has giving more hint on the death of Chief Ladi Williams, a senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), who died of Covid-19 on Sunday, despite taking the two jabs of Covid-19 vaccine. Ogoina, who is also a Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Niger Delta…
A psychiatrist with the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Lokoja, Doctor Egbeola Collins stated this in an interview with newsmen in Lokoja. Doctor Egbeola who is also the chairman of the Federal Medical Centre Lokoja Chapter of the Medical and Dental Consultant Association of Nigeria, said health has different pillers including physical health which deals…
The Senate has passed a bill to establish the orthopedic hospital in Dekina, Kogi state, aimed at improving health care need of the people of the area. The bill was sponsored by Senator Isah Jibrin Echocho representing Kogi East senatorial district. Senator Isah Jibrin got Senate’s approval for the establishment of the federal health…
FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has kicked off the second round of the Administration’s outbreak response to the circulating polio virus in the Federal Capital Territory. The minister who performed the exercise at the Area 2 Primary Healthcare Centre, Garki Abuja vaccinated two new born babies as the chief…
By Our Reporter, Abuja. The Senator representing Kogi East in the National Assembly, Senator Dr Jibrin Isah Echocho has concluded an arrangement with Kogi State Health insurance Agency for the treatment of widows and orphans from his constituency. The Senator made this known to newsmen when the Executive Secretary of the Agency, Dr. Aledare…
In a bid to improved and reposition health system for effective service delivery in the State, Pharm. Ahmed Baba Yahaya, the Nasarawa State Commissioner for Health said the state government will review upward overhead cost of government agencies and parastatals under the ministry for effective service delivery. Baba Yahaya made this known when he…
By Our Reporter, Kogi. An award of excellence has been presented to Zam Zam pharmacy beside UBA, IBB way Lokoja. Presenting the award in Lokoja, Kogi State, the State Chairman of the Association of Kogi Youths Concern, Comrade Sumaila Kanya said the pharmacy has met all standard expected in modern world and it has…
