Health

By Derrick Bangura Senegal’s President Macky Sall fired the health minister on Thursday and announced three days of national mourning for the death of the newborns. Eleven newborn babies died in a hospital fire blamed on an electrical…

By Derrick Bangura TIVAOUANE, Senegal — Police were on guard and nearby residents and parents stood mourning outside a hospital in Senegal where a fire in the neonatal unit killed 11 newborns. Only three infants could be saved, President…

Spain says it has donated 4.4 million doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine to the Federal Government of Nigeria towards curtailing the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). This is contained in a statement by the Spanish Embassy in…

By Derrick Bangura The federal government says N999 million will be expended on the daily feeding of 10 million pupils under the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP). According to NAN, Aishatu Digil, NHGSFP team lead,…

By Derrick Bangura A senior executive at the World Health Organization stated on Monday that there is no evidence that the monkeypox virus has mutated, noting that the infectious disease, which is widespread in western and central…

Despite the reports that COVID-19 cases and deaths have declined significantly, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, has warned that COVID-19 is not over. Ghebreyesus said this at the…

Egypt is set to complete the construction of a $50 million vaccine storage facility in July for the storage of about 150 million doses of COVID-19 and other vaccines annually. The Chairman of Egypt’s Holding Company for Biological…

The Association of Nigeria Private Medical Practitioners (ANPMP) has appealed to the Federal Government to ensure the effective implementation of the provisions of the newly signed National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) law. The…

France on Friday reported the country’s first case of monkeypox, with the patient being isolated at home. France’s Health Ministry confirmed the case after a PCR test was done on the patient on Thursday, French news channel BFMTV…

By Derrick Bangura Scientists in England say they have identified urine bacteria that are linked to aggressive prostate cancer. The researchers said the discovery potentially provides new ways to spot and prevent tumours. In the…