Health

A Covid “tsunami” threatens to overwhelm healthcare systems, the WHO said Wednesday, as record surges fuelled by the Omicron variant dampened New Year celebrations...

The risk posed by the Omicron variant is still “very high”, the World Health Organisation said Wednesday, after Covid-19 case numbers shot up by...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it is working on reducing the importation of drugs from its present...

Data from the federal ministry of health has shown that there are only 40,017 functional hospitals and clinics across the 36 states of the...

The federal government yesterday destroyed 1,066,242 doses of expired Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines. The executive director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal...

The governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday rolled out new guidelines for social events and gatherings in the state during the festive...

The presidential steering committee in collaboration in collaboration with the federal ministry of health and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has on Wednesday confirmed the first two cases of the Omicron variant in Nigeria. The director general of...

A medical expert has urged older men to take better care of their prostate health to prevent other health complications. The expert, a professor of...

The World Health Organisation on Thursday said deaths from Tuberculosis, one of the top infectious killers in the world, increased for the first time...