An unspecified number of doctors and dentists is billed to face a tribunal set up by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria between September 23 (today) and 27, 2019 over various professional lapses.

MDCN is the regulatory body of all medical and alternative medicine practitioners in Nigeria with the mandate to discipline any erring medical practitioner whose actions or in-actions fall short of medical professional ethics.

Tanzania has declined to provide detailed information on suspected Ebola cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

Despite several requests “to date, clinical data, results of the investigations, possible contacts and potential laboratory tests performed .. have not been communicated to WHO,” the U.N. health agency said in a statement seen by Reuters on Sunday.

Benue State Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Sunday Ongbabo, on Monday, disclosed that one person has died of Lassa fever in the state. A statement issued by the commissioner noted that there was one index, adding that the combined surveillance team had already visited the area to comb the place for contract tracing.

Nigerian First Lady and Global TB Ambassador, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, has called for more funding to fast-track efforts to end tuberculosis (TB).

The First Lady, who made the call during the UN High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis at the UN Headquarters, New York on Sunday, 22 September 2019, challenged leaders to increase political commitment and fulfill their promises to increase resources and support effective and sustainable partnerships to end TB.

The Nigeria Snakebite Research and Intervention Centre, Bayero University Kano (BUK), has trained 50 health workers in Bauchi on how to manage snakebites. Muhammad Hamza, a Consultant Physician with the Centre, made this known while addressing journalists on the objectives of the training in Bauchi on Wednesday.

Mr Hamza said the essence of the training was to acquaint the health workers in the state with the knowledge of snakebite management.

The Chairman of the Lagos Medical Guild, Babajide Saheed, on Tuesday, urged the federal government to declare a state of emergency toward revitalizing the health sector. Mr Saheed made the call during a media briefing in Lagos.

He said 59 years after Nigeria’s independence, its health sector had deteriorated in healthcare delivery, resulting in medical tourism.

The Katsina State government says it is targeting seven million people in the ongoing vaccination against Yellow Fever holding across the state. The vaccination followed the detection of 36 new cases mostly in Danmusa and Kankara Local Government Areas of the state.

The Deputy Governor of the state, Mannir Yakubu, said while inspecting the vaccination exercise on Monday in Katsina that all residents should avail themselves of the opportunity.

The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) has sealed off 332 pharmacies and patent medicine shops in Jigawa for various offenses. Anthonia Aruya, the council’s Director, Inspection and Monitoring, stated this during a press conference in Dutse on Sunday.

Mrs Aruya said the affected premises included 12 pharmacies and 327 patent medicine shops. She added that three other premises were issued compliance directives for various irregularities.

Nigeria’s Health Insurance Agency, NHIS, has reacted to a trending report that its corporate account was recently hacked. Several publications including Daily Trust reported how two persons, Tunde Ogunseye and Funmilayo Oyelaja, were arrested by the police in Lagos for allegedly hacking into the NHIS account, stealing N60 million from it.

The police said one of the suspects, Ms Oyelaja, took advantage of being a staff of Clearline International Limited, a Health Management Organisation, HMO, based in Lagos, to hack into the account, a report published a week ago said.

The deputy governor of Niger State and chairman of the state’s board of Primary Health Care Development Agency (PHCDA), Alhaji Mohammed Ketso has assured that the present administration of Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello would bequeath effective and efficient healthcare delivery system to Nigerlites.

A statement by the press secretary to the deputy governor, Hajiya Maimuna Kolo yesterday said the deputy governor spoke at the opening ceremony of the two day’s retreat for members of the state’s board of Primary Health Care Development Agency.