A Magistrate Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, has ordered that the Chief Medical Director of a private hospital in the state, Dr Ayodele Joseph, be remanded at a Federal Correctional facility for allegedly raping a nurse in his hospital. Ayodele, the CMD of Ayodele Hospital in the Sawmill area of Ilorin, was standing […]
The outgoing President, Muhammadu Buhari has again, abandoned Nigerian Hospital for the United Kingdom Health system over teeth treatment. Buhari is due to exit the seat of power on May 29, 2023. In a terse statement on Tuesday, Femi Adesina, the Senior Special Assistant to the President, disclosed this, according to our source; Daily […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has said that Nigeria has lost a total of 151 persons to Lassa fever between January and April 9 2023. Confirming this in its latest epidemiological report, the NCDC in its week 14 epidemiological report said the case fatality rate put at 17.4 per cent was lower […]
The United Kingdom has placed Nigeria and 53 other countries on the red list of countries that should not be actively targeted for recruitment by health and social care employers. The announcement was contained in the revised code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England. It is […]
No fewer than 500 women-Ied households that are victims of flood disasters are to benefit from the Integrated Basic Needs Assistance by the MALALA Fund programmes. Founded by student and Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai, Malala Fund invests in girls’ education. The Program Officer of MALALA Fund in Nigeria, Maryam Danburam, announced the gesture on […]
Joy Amba in UYO. Three new transvenous cardiac pacemaker surgeries have been performed at the General Hospital Awa, Onna LGA in Akwa Ibom State. Briefing newsmen at the hospital, the surgery Team Leader, Dr Eyo Ekpo, said the latest operations bring to five, the number of such procedures so far carried out at the […]
A total of thirty four (34) fresh doctors in Ondo State, South West Nigeria, have been given automatic employment by the State Government, TheHILL reports. The paper gathered that the new employees were the first set of medical doctors that graduated from the state-owned University of Medical Sciences. Our source; The NATION, however, informed […]
The Provost/Chief Executive Officer, Federal School of Medical Laboratory Technology (FSLMT), Jos, Plateau State, Dr Sunday Etukudoh has been reappointed by President Muhammadu Buhari for a second in office. TheHILL gathered that Etukudoh’s reappointment, which will last four years, took effect from August 18, 2022. A statement from the media office, Federal Ministry of […]
A report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other UN bodies showed that in 2020 a woman died around every two minutes from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. The report, published on Thursday, said that in 2020 “an estimated 287,000 women globally died from a maternal cause, equivalent to almost 800 […]
Mohammad Ali Pate, a Harvard professor who has held top health jobs in Nigeria and with the World Bank, will soon take the reins of the Gavi vaccine alliance, the organisation said Monday. Pate, a medical doctor trained in internal medicine and infectious disease, will take over the helm on August 3 from US […]