The World Health Organisation says it estimated that 500,000 children lacked access to immunisation from the wild polio virus in 2016. The Polio Eradication Programme Coordinator, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Dr Pascal Mkanda, stated this on Monday at a virtual press conference ahead of the official certification of Africa as a polio-free continent.

The actual announcement of the certification of the eradication of polio in Africa is expected to hold on Tuesday, August 25, 2020, and would be attended by Nigeria’s President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.); philanthropist, Bill Gates, and industrialist, Aliko Dangote.

Ground beef tainted with salmonella has led to 10 known infections across six states, including eight people so ill they had to be hospitalized, and one death. "Illnesses in this outbreak are more severe than expected for salmonella," the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement issued Friday.

The Federal Ministry of Health says it will ensure the reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality in the country through the adoption of the Maternal and Postnatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR).

Olorunnimbe Mamora, Minister of State, Health, gave the assurance in a statement issued by the Assistant Director of Press and Publicity of the ministry, Eunice Akro, on Saturday in Abuja.

If Gift Julius and her husband had been able to pay the N250,000 demanded by officials at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), perhaps three of their children would still be alive.

In the evening of July 16, 2018, while Mrs Julius, who lived in Ilaje, a ghetto in the largely affluent neighbourhood of Lekki, was in nearby Sangotedo where she worked as a maid, tragedy struck her family.

Alhaji Yusif Tudun-Wada, the Council’s Immunisation Officer, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gumel that the vaccination began on Saturday and would end on Nov. 5.

He said the council had so far received 41,340 doses of polio vaccines from the state government for the exercise. “The release of 41,340 doses to us by the state government is based on our target children for the July round.

The Adamawa Police Command has confirmed the arrest of an alleged fake medical doctor in Modire-Yolde-Pate ward in Yola South local government area. The Command spokesperson, DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Yola.

Nguroje said the suspect, identified as Gambo Adamu, was arrested and remanded in prison custody. He said Adamu was initially a patent medicine retailer who suddenly began admitting patients for treatment.

The Bauchi state governor, Sen Bala Mohammed, has outlined his priorities in reviving the health sector in the state which he lamented, groaned in abject decay resulting from years of neglect. He spoke at a meeting with the deputy representative of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) in Nigeria and her team in Abuja.

The governor expressed delight that at the UNICEF’S assessment that places Bauchi State as one of the frontrunners on evidence-based scorecards in primary health care delivery in the country.

A recent study conducted by Dr A. Festus and others of the University of Ife in Nigeria, found that 44 percent of men aged 30 to 70 suffer from erectile dysfunction, of which 8 percent was severe and 36 percent moderate.

According to the research, Erectile Dysfunction (ED) or impotence can be defined as persistent difficulty achieving and maintaining an erection sufficient to have sexual intercourse, when a man is unable to get or keep an erection firm enough to engage in sexual intercourse.

President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to seek better ways of improving healthcare service delivery to Nigerians.

This came as former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (Rtd), lamented that ‘Nigeria is losing millions of naira to medical tourism.He gave the task at the second National Health Summit (NHS) and the 25th Commonwealth Medical Association Triennial Conference on Tuesday in Abuja.

At the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, needlestick injuries, a common reason some people develop hepatitis B and C and HIV, have occurred in at least 23 health workers, since January 2018.

Dr Kehinde Kuti, speaking at the hospital’s 2019 Health and Safety Day symposium, said preliminary reports on the hospital’s staff given post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) treatment for HIV found the cases more among doctors and nurses, including hospital assistants.