Ghana Orders 21-Day Monitoring for Travellers From Ebola-Affected Countries
ACCRA, GHANA — Ghana’s Ministry of Health has introduced Ghana Ebola traveller monitoring for up to 21 days for passengers arriving from […]
Kenya Issues Ebola Safety Guidelines for Workplaces as Contacts Are Cleared
NAIROBI, KENYA — Kenya’s Ministry of Health has issued Ebola workplace safety guidelines urging employers and employees to promote awareness, early reporting and […]
WAHO Pushes Common Standards for Training Health Workers Across ECOWAS
ABUJA, NIGERIA — The West African Health Organisation (WAHO) has renewed its push to harmonise health professionals education standards across the Economic […]
Nigeria Targets 25,000 Subsidised Cataract Surgeries and Five Million Spectacles by 2027
ABUJA, NIGERIA — Nigeria will provide 5 million reading spectacles and 25,000 fully subsidised cataract surgeries by 2027 under a new Nigeria […]
Zamfara Confirms Dengue Fever Outbreak as Deaths Rise to 46
GUSAU, NIGERIA — The Zamfara State Government has confirmed that a Zamfara dengue fever outbreak caused an illness that has killed 46 people […]
NCDC Says Nigeria Needs N104bn a Year for Health Security Plan
ABUJA, NIGERIA — The Nigeria health security plan for 2025 to 2029 will cost about N522 billion, or an average of N104.4 […]
House of Representatives Opens Probe of N10bn Ebola Emergency Fund
ABUJA, NIGERIA — Nigeria’s House of Representatives has opened an Ebola emergency fund probe to examine how the N10 billion released for […]
Professor Mojisola Adeyeye: The Pharmacist Who Rebuilt NAFDAC
When Professor Mojisola Adeyeye walked into NAFDAC headquarters in November 2017, she inherited an agency with a debt of more than three […]
Medication Adherence in Africa Is the Treatment We Keep Forgetting to Prescribe
Every pharmacist in Nigeria has met this patient. A middle-aged man with high blood pressure, prescribed the right medicine by a good […]
Nigeria Health Worker Migration: We Cannot Outpay London, So We Must Out-Design It
In 2019, my wife and I welcomed our first daughter. Ten of our closest friends and colleagues, pharmacists like both of us, […]
How to Manage Stress: A Practical Guide for Busy Lives
Traffic, rising prices, job insecurity, family responsibilities and unreliable power can make daily life in Nigeria feel like a constant uphill climb. […]
Health Insurance Coverage in Nigeria: 23 Million Insured, and the Gap HMOs Must Close
For almost two decades, health insurance coverage in Nigeria barely moved. It hovered around a few percent of the population, almost all […]