TheHILL | HEALTH | JUNE 16. Medical experts have warned against complacency among Nigerians just as they called on the Federal Government to take urgent action in the fight against Monkeypox. They made the call at a time the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reported that the disease has spread to 15 states in the […]
…. threaten industrial action By Uwem Ekoh Akwa Ibom State Nurses under the umbrella of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, (NANNM ), Akwa Ibom State Council have expressed dismay and sadness over what they described as lack of government care and proper attention to nurses welfare. The Association complained of the inability […]
TheHILL | POLITICS | APRIL 4. “We have built infrastructure, we have built industries, it is time to build the people”. In this continuation of the series on ‘how onofiok Luke will build akwa ibom people’, we take a look at the beautiful blueprints that this ‘peoples’ aspirant has for the health sector in […]
TheHILL | News | JANUARY 10. Forty-four-year-old Terhemen Anongo, who dropped out of the University of Ibadan as a 500-level medical student, says he has castrated his second testicle. TheHILL’s source; Punch, had in March 2021 reported the story of Anongo, who became a cart pusher after dropping out of school and removed one of […]
TheHILL | HEALTH | January 9. Medical health experts say not waking up to an early morning erection, especially when this becomes consistent, could be an indication of erectile dysfunction, noting that men should be alert to such a sign. The experts who are urologists stressed that while it is normal for men to sometimes […]
TheHILL | HEALTH | JANUARY 9. Paediatric cardiologists have alerted that more children, especially from well-to-do families, are coming down with high blood pressure. According to the cardiologists, unhealthy lifestyle practices by the rich could be a major factor in the development. The experts noted that the desire to feed children with fast, processed […]
TheHILL |HEALTH | January 7. The Africa Centre for Disease Control, on Thursday, said Nigeria had experienced a 249 per cent increase in new deaths as a result of COVID-19 just as a tally of epidemiological reports issued by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control revealed that no fewer than 25 persons died in five […]
TheHILL | HEALTH | December 22. The federal government has destroyed about 1,066,214 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines donated to the country to combat COVID-19. The destruction carried out on Wednesday in Abuja, according to the government, followed the expiration of the vaccines given to the country by foreign donors. The National Primary Health Care […]
TheHILL | HEALTH | December 2. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, yesterday confirmed the first 3 cases of Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Nigeria. The Omicron variant also known as the B.1.1.529 lineage, was confirmed in travellers from South Africa who arrived in Nigeria on a day the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, […]
TheHILL | HEALTH | November 29. Canada said on Monday morning that it has detected its first cases of the new Omicron strain of Covid in two people who had travelled recently to Nigeria. The government of Ontario confirmed that the two cases are in the capital, Ottawa. Federal and Ontario provincial officials said both […]