Korede Abdullah in Lagos Benue State has recorded 31 suspected cases of Mpox across five Local Government Areas — Makurdi, Ushongo, Gwer East, Katsina-Ala, and Guma — with seven of those cases confirmed through laboratory testing. The Executive Secretary of the Benue State Primary Health Care Board, Mrs. Grace Wende, disclosed this during a stakeholders’…
Hussaini Kafi in Kano The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has suspended its nationwide warning strike, which began on Monday, July 29. The decision to call off the industrial action was disclosed on Friday by the Minister of Health, Prof. Ali Pate, after a closed-door meeting with the association’s leadership in Abuja….
Public hospitals across key communities in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have been thrown into chaos as a warning strike by the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) entered its third day. The industrial action has crippled healthcare delivery in Dutse, Kubwa, and Bwari, with patients stranded and critical services suspended. A visit…
Hussaini Kafi in Kano Amid the ongoing nationwide warning strike by the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), members of the Hospital Friends Association in Katsina have stepped in to provide first aid and humanitarian support to stranded patients. The state chairman of the association, Alhaji Bilya Sanda Khadimul Islam, in a statement…
Drastic cuts to humanitarian aid in north-eastern Nigeria could prove a boon to one of the world’s most deadly militant groups, Boko Haram, aid agencies have warned. A reduction of funding in recent months has forced the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) to ration its support, and now it has completely run out. “It will…
Korede Abdullah in Lagos Patients at the Alimosho General Hospital, Igando, the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja and some other facilities cross Lagos state, are pleading for quick resolution of the ongoing by the medical doctors in the state. At the Alimosho General Hospital in Igando, when Africa Health Report, AHR, visited it…
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