Health

Health

Prioritising family planning for national devt

Nigeria has low contraceptive prevalence rate of 15% and a high rate of unmet need for family planning in spite of the high fertility rate among women

Katsina targets 2m children for polio exercise

Katsina State Primary Health Care Development Agency has embarked on a four-day massive polio immunization exercise where about 2 million children und

Nigeria army offers free treatment to 1,000 persons

Over 1,000 residents of Rumeme community in Obio Akpor Local Government Area  of Rivers State have  benefited from the medical outreach carr

FG urges practitioners to release details of traditional medicines

The Federal Government has urged traditional healers and alternative medicine practitioners to release details of their residues and other ingredients

1.7bn people live with mental health disorder – Expert

About 1.7 billion people live with mental health disorder, a professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences and Global Health, Brandon Kohrt has sai