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According to the BBC, the British man tested positive for the virus while in the DRC.

According to the report, the six interventions could prevent one in every 40 deaths globally, based on modelled projections, while...

The proposed amendment prescribes that hospitals would be required to commence treatment within 15 minutes of a patient’s arrival.

The bill seeks to amend the National Health Act, 2014, to strengthen emergency medical services and establish enforceable standards for...

Mr Salako, who delivered the closing address at the summit, said the federal government would also train 15,000 primary healthcare...

This was disclosed in a statement issued on Monday and signed by the Director-General of the agency, Jide Idris, who...

El Niño, a climate phenomenon that develops in the Pacific Ocean, could intensify global temperatures and disrupt weather patterns towards...

Beyond Nigeria, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continued to raise concerns about regional health...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) on Saturday announced that two suspected Ebola cases had been identified...

Details obtained exclusively by PREMIUM TIMES revealed that a 34-year-old pilot and his wife, a medical doctor, are the two...

The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) announced the measures in a statement published on its official X account on Friday, 30...

The development comes 11 days after Nigeria confirmed its first case of Ebola disease caused by the Bundibugyo virus in...

Speaking with PREMIUM TIMES, Tanimola Akande, a professor of public health at the University of Ilorin, said extreme heat associated...

From reliable health data and community participation to maternal healthcare and epidemic preparedness, experts at the conference examined what Nigeria...

One of the administration's interventions has been the constitution of an Ebola Response Team.

Although Nigeria has pharmaceutical companies that manufacture finished medicines, many depend on imported APIs and other raw materials to produce...

They noted that participation by individual operators in consultations or the launch does not amount to collective endorsement, and the...

Mr Janabi said an estimated 24.6 million adults aged 20 to 79 were living with diabetes in the African Region...

According to the survey, under-five mortality declined from 132 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2018 to 110 in 2024,...

Mr Kaseya described the continued loss of young health professionals working to save others as “deeply painful and outrageous.”

Mr Kaseya said the ministers agreed to prepare every country for possible Ebola cases, coordinate responses across borders and keep...

He said enrolment across federal, state and private health insurance schemes grew by 42.35 per cent over the period.

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Mr Ohiri said the programme was designed to prevent women experiencing complications during childbirth from being denied or delayed treatment...

The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Iziaq Salako, disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja during a ministerial...