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Christian docs take stand on abortion, homosexuality

Christian Medical and Dental Association of Nigeria (CMDA) at its 2013 conference in Abuja, said that what constitutes abortion and murder of a foetus

Surviving the ordeal of tuberculosis

Normal treatment should have taken six months, but without supervision, monitoring, and strict compliance to the guidelines for treatment, the infecti

Absence of legislation hampers blood services

The absence of an enabling legislation to back the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) is hampering regulation of blood services, NBTS has said,

Girl, 2, in Abuja’s first successful PDA surgery

  {video here} At 2, Joanna Enahoro, faced a daily risk of heart failure and imminent death until surgeons at Garki Hospital, Abuja successfully

Fistula project ends after surgery on 10,000 women

A seven-year US-funded programme, FistulaCare, has wound down after providing free surgeries to repair fistula in an estimated 10,000 women in Nigeria