Healthwise
Government plans evacuation, camps as flood hits 28 states
•Flooding affects 133 LGs, 526,703 persons, Tinubu promises aid According to the National Emergency Management Agency, the heavy rains and flooding that have wreaked havoc across the country in rece...
29th August 2024
Relocate from flood-prone areas, Kaduna urges residents
The Kaduna State Government has appealed to residents living in flood-prone areas to evacuate immediately, following the devastating flood that affected Sabon-Gari and Zaria Local Government Areas on ...
28th August 2024
Lagos probes sale of dead chickens after PUNCH report
The Lagos State Government has launched an investigation into traders in the state repackaging and selling chickens killed by rodents. The investigation followed a report by PUNCH Healthwise that spot...
28th August 2024
Female engineers promote gardening
The Lagos Chapter of the Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria has launched the Lagos Home Gardening Initiative, to enhance food security. APWEN unveiled the Lagos Home Gardening Init...
28th August 2024
Tanzanian Ndugulile becomes WHO Africa new regional director
The World Health Organisation African Region has announced Dr Faustine Ndugulile as its new Regional Director. Ndugulile, a Tanzanian, takes over the reins from Dr Matshidiso Moeti, who has served two...
27th August 2024
Biosafety agency allays fears on GMOs, advocates adequate information
The National Biosafety Management Agency has intensified efforts to combat the widespread misinformation and myths surrounding Genetically Modified Organisms in Nigeria. Speaking at the Agricultural B...
27th August 2024
NAFDAC debunks bread ban, warns bakers on use of saccharine
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has dissociated itself from a comment asking Nigerians to avoid eating bread made and sold in the country. The agency made the clarific...
27th August 2024
Speaker Abbas calls for immediate aid to Kaduna flood victims
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, has expressed deep concern over the recent flooding in Sabon Gari Local Government Area of Kaduna State, describing the incident as a trage...
27th August 2024
UPDATED: US donates 10,000 Mpox vaccine doses to Nigeria
The government of the United States of America donated 10,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine to Nigeria on Tuesday. Jynneos is a vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the prevention o...
27th August 2024
Kidnapped doctor: Patients groan as NARD strike grounds hospitals
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, on Monday, commenced a seven-day warning strike to push for the rescue of a Kaduna-based doctor, Dr Ganiyat Popoola, who was kidnapped last December and h...
27th August 2024
Foundation offers 3,000 residents free surgeries, drugs
The United Lagos and Onome Omobolaji Obada Foundation, in partnership with the Lagos State Government, provided free drugs and surgeries for over 3,000 residents in Ikoyi, Lagos. The four-day outreach...
27th August 2024
Lagos recovers N330m patients’ bill from hospitals, others for poor services
The Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency has announced the recovery of over N330m from various service providers, including hospitals, for failing to deliver satisfactory services to residents. In a...
27th August 2024
Why pregnant women should be tested for diabetes before 14 weeks – Specialists
Leading obstetricians, gynaecologists, and endocrinologists have recommended that pregnant women be tested for gestational diabetes as soon as they register for antenatal care, rather than waiting unt...
27th August 2024
Childhood immunisation: Experts seek improved campaigns after Kaduna diphtheria resurgence
Following the outbreak of diphtheria in the Tukur Tukur settlement of Zaria Local Government Area of Kaduna State, public health experts have advocated improved childhood vaccination campaigns in Nige...
27th August 2024
Crowd control will reduce Mpox spread, says NARD president
As the world grapples with the outbreak of Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox), the President of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Dele Abdullahi, has stressed the need for crowd control...
27th August 2024
Physicians worry as pneumonia kills 100,000 Nigerian children annually
Medical experts have said Nigeria will continue to have disturbing infant health indices except it effectively tackles pneumonia among children under the age of five. The physicians disclosed that pne...
27th August 2024
Flooding: Delta, Kogi create IDP camps, Anambra, Kwara warn communities
Delta and Kogi states have activated their camps for Internally Displaced Persons after the Federal Government alerted both states, alongside Niger, Kwara, Anambra and Imo, of an impending rise of the...
26th August 2024
Kaduna blames vaccine rejection as diphtheria kills three
A health team led by the Executive Secretary of the Kaduna State Primary Health Care Board, Dr Bello Jamo, has confirmed a diphtheria outbreak in the Tukur Tukur settlement of Zaria Local Government A...
26th August 2024
Delta set up a 16-man flood management committee
The Delta State Government has established a 16-member flood management committee. The committee comprises key Ministries, Departments, and Agencies along with stakeholders typically involved in disas...
25th August 2024
JUST IN: Resident doctors begin strike Monday
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors have declared a seven-day warning strike over the abduction of their colleague, Dr Ganiyat Popoola who was kidnapped nearly eight months ago. NARD Presiden...
25th August 2024
FG approved N3bn for Kebbi, other flood-affected states - Minister
The Minister of Finance, Wale Edun has said the National Economic Council has approved the sum of N3bn to Kebbi and other states affected by floods this year, including the Federal Capital Territory. ...
25th August 2024
Three children die of diphtheria in Kaduna community
A health team led by the Executive Secretary of the Kaduna State Primary Health Care Board, Dr. Bello Jamo, has confirmed diphtheria outbreak in Tukur Tukur settlement, Zaria Local Government of the s...
25th August 2024
Anambra doctors call off strike
Doctors in Anambra have called off the indefinite strike action they embarked upon to protest the kidnap of their colleague, a private practioner, Dr. Stephen Ezeh based in Ihiala. In a statement sign...
25th August 2024
Lagos night food vendors defy styrofoam ban, insist alternatives unaffordable
Despite the Lagos State Government’s ban on the use of styrofoam containers for food packaging, PUNCH Healthwise’s findings have revealed how some night food vendors in different parts of the stat...
25th August 2024
Economic hardship forces patients out of treatment, turns dying souls to beggars
Skyrocketing prices of life-saving drugs in the country is taking its toll on patients with chronic diseases as the situation has turned them into beggars to escape death, Janet Ogundepo reports After...
25th August 2024
Mpox: Infected pregnant women may give birth to positive babies, say gynaecologists
As the world grapples with the outbreak of Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox), maternal health experts have said that pregnant women who tested positive for the viral infection could transfer it to th...
25th August 2024
‘Why babies shouldn’t be given injections while asleep’
Paediatricians and public health experts have warned that giving babies injections while they are asleep is dangerous and could potentially lead to complications including nerve damage and distress. T...
25th August 2024
Mpox poses significant risk to people living with HIV - NACA
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS has urged the public to take preventive measures against the rising threat of Mpox, in line with its commitment to the health and safety of Nigerians, parti...
24th August 2024
Flood victims get drugs, others in Adamawa
A non-governmental organisation, Grassroot Life Saving Outreach, has donated drugs and other life saving essential medical necessities to flood victims in three Adamawa local government council area...
24th August 2024
10,000 mpox vaccine doses arrive September as cases hit 40
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Jide Idris, has stated that 10,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine for mpox control may arrive in Nigeria in September. H...
24th August 2024
'No ransom paid,' FPRO says abducted medical students freed by operatives
The Nigeria Police Force on Saturday confirmed the release of 20 medical students who were abducted along the Otukpo/Otukpa/Enugu Road. The students, who are from the University of Maiduguri and the U...
24th August 2024
