Microplastic contamination has been found in tap water in countries around the world, leading to calls from scientists for urgent research on the implications for health.
The Federal Government said that the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) violated section 18 of the Trade Dispute Act of the Federation of 2004 by embarking on strike. Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, said this at a conciliation meeting with the leadership of NARD on Wednesday in Abuja.
Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, has directed heads of federal government hospitals to ensure that all other medical doctors in the other strata are available to fill the vacuum created as a result of the industrial action embarked upon by the National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, on Monday.
Cholera has broken out in northeast Nigeria at a camp for people displaced by the eight-year conflict with Boko Haram, aid group Médecins Sans Frontières said on Thursday, bringing disease to communities already underfed and living in squalor.
Tanzania is set to launch the world’s largest drone delivery network in January, with drones parachuting blood and medicines out of the skies to save the lives of women giving birth and children struck by malaria, in a country larger than Nigeria.
The Kuchingoro Primary Health Care Centre (PHC) commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2017 as part of his Administration's efforts to revitalize 10, 000 PHCs across the Country has collapsed. The PHC is located on the Airport Road, Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), close to military cemetery, Abuja. The President had on January 10th, commissioned the edifice to provide healthcare services for residents of the area, particularly to reduce cases of child mortality rate.
