It is estimated that medical tourism costs the Nigerian economy more than one billion dollars annually, with thousands of Nigerians travelling abroad for medical care every year. Citizens of developing countries embark on medical tourism for different reasons, including the opportunity to get assessed and treated...
Concerned by the likely surge of a maternal, newborn, child and pregnancy-related deaths due to the Covid-19 pandemic, experts have urged the federal and state governments to enhance the contraceptive supply chain to enable women in the rural areas to access family planning commodities. They made...
The federal government of Nigeria has expressed its intent to scale up immunisation nationally. This is as a result of the increase in the number of Nigerians suffering from diseases with existing vaccines: records show that the number of Nigerians suffering from acute hepatitis infection...
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and chairman, Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Mr Boss Mustapha, made this known on Monday, announced on July 13, that the Federal Government has said that to address the testing deficit in the country, it...
We collaborated with the employees at Jumia to provide financial support to patients in Ikorodu General Hospital. To commemorate this year’s African Women’s Day and in line with the global theme which addresses maternal and neonatal mortality in Africa, the female employees at Jumia Nigeria rallied...
Over 20 million people are suffering from high blood pressure across Nigeria. According to research, this number is calculated as 30.7% among men and 25.2% among women. High blood pressure, also called hypertension, is a health problem that affects millions of Nigerians. Research reveals that over 20...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) announced this week that Madagascar's lauded herbal cure for coronavirus is on its way to Nigeria for clinical investigation of its efficacy. The test, intended to be carried out by the agency, is in...
It is Wednesday, the 25th of March, a day before Lagos will go into a one-week compulsory lockdown. I am curious to know how this lockdown and the fight against the Coronavirus is perceived by those who have shops, or hawk food around. This leads...
On the 20th of March, Lagos State Authorities confirmed that hospitals had seen cases of chloroquine poisoning after US President Donald Trump promoted the drug as a treatment against the coronavirus (COVID-19). During a press conference, Trump said that the antimalarial drug -- which was banned...
This post originally appeared on The GoMoney Blog. It is a stressful and anxious time for people all over the world as the viral disease Coronavirus (COVID-19) has taken over lives, the world's financial stability and, quite frankly, overall sanity. Initially assumed to be mildly threatening, the coronavirus...
