The Ministry of Health said it was considering the enforcement of the policy on exclusive breastfeeding to curb the increasing cases of diarrhea and pneumonia in infants. The Head of Nutrition, Family Health Department at the Ministry, Dr. Chris Isokpunwu stated this on Monday when he met with representatives from the states to discuss ways to address nutrition related issues especially among infants in the country.

Google has begun releasing 20 million mosquitoes in two neighborhoods in California,  as part of efforts to solve one of the planet’s most devastating health problems, one mosquito at a time.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF), a humanitarian organization, on Sunday said it had deployed more than 1, 700 personnel to Borno to provide emergency support services to communities ravaged by Boko Haram insurgency. The organisation also known as ‘MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES’, said it was providing intervention in the areas of health care delivery, food and nutrition support as well as water and sanitation services.

The Nasarawa State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly operating an illegal clinic and infecting a 6-year-old boy with HIV through transfusion of unscreened blood.

Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole

More top officials of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), have been suspended by the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole has expressed worry over reports that more than half of foreign trained doctors and dentist failed the requisite examinations to secure practice license of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN).