The just suspended strike by the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, which took its toll on patients while it lasted, is an indication that the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic may never change government’s poor attitude towards the health sector. Members…
August 25, 2020, will remain indelible in the minds of many Nigerians. It will remain indelible because it was the day the World Health Organisation declared Nigeria and the African Region free of wild polio virus. The declaration came after…
“Could you patent the sun?” The acclaimed reply from Jonas Salk when asked whether he’d be patenting his breakthrough polio vaccine. The poliovirus, which once killed or maimed hundreds of thousands of children every year and led to summertime lockdowns…
Medical tourism, a term used to describe trips abroad for medical treatment is a phenomenon that has plagued Nigeria for years. This phenomenon has been exacerbated over the years by the neglect of the nation’s health sector by successive governments. …
Kano was in the news again last week, this time, for the right reason. The state was commended by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control for its positive response to the outbreak of COVID-19. The NCDC singled out Kano for…
Over five months after the outbreak of COVID-19 in Nigeria, health workers at the forefront of fighting the viral pandemic are still lamenting inadequate Personal Protective Equipment. Many people had expected that Nigeria will be in a good position to…
A fresh warning by the National Population Commission that the prolonged closure of schools occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic may lead to more girls dropping out of school, getting married and having children should be a major source of concern…
A health crisis is hanging over Nigeria owing in part to the incessant emigration of medical doctors to advanced countries. The recent attempt by 58 Nigerian doctors to migrate to the United Kingdom, which was foiled by the Nigeria Immigration…
Cases of child abandonment are becoming rampant in Nigeria. The traditional and social media have reported many of such cases that it is gradually becoming a ‘normal’ occurrence, even as incidents of child abandonment cut across the country. There are…
The media has been inundated recently with reports of patients being denied treatment because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. There have been reports also of patients with other health conditions dying avoidable deaths because they were denied treatment by health…