The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has directed all its stakeholders on steps aimed at reducing delays in accessing services and ensuring that enrollees receive quality healthcare services with effect from April 1, 2025.
Entrepreneur Uka Eje has launched the Olivehill Development Initiative (ODI) in Lagos to provide free dialysis to 35 Nigerians suffering from Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), while addressing critical gaps in education, healthcare, and economic empowerment across underserved communities.
Researchers at the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research, NIMR, have warned of a silent, pervasive stomach lining bacteria, Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), that silently fuels gastritis, ulcers, and gastric cancer. The NIMR, Director of Research and Professor of Microbiology, Professor Stella Smith, stated this during the institute’s monthly media parley in Lagos. He stressed the urgent need for greater awareness, better diagnostic methods, and improved treatment adherence to combat antimicrobial resistance.
The World Health Organisation is concerned on the devastating impact of oral diseases such as dental caries, gum disease, and tooth loss, despite advances made in oral health care.
President Bola Tinubu approved the automatic employment of 774 National Health Fellows which is an initiative led by the Federal Ministry of Health to foster sustained improvements within Nigeria’s healthcare system.
The UN World Health Organisation, WHO has warned that funding cut by the United States –Agency For International Development, USAID, is threatening decades of progress recorded in the fight against tuberculosis that is still one of the world’s deadliest infectious disease. The health agency highlighted that essential services like prevention, testing, and treatment are collapsing before their eyes, leaving millions vulnerable.
