The Federal Ministry of Health is planning to establish 10,000 functional primary health care centres across the country between now and 2018, said a senior officer in the ministry. 

The Head of Health Financing and Equity at the Federal Ministry of Health, Dr. Francis Ukwuije, said the Federal Government would have completed the building of functional health centres in each ward across the country in two years’ time.

ON this year’s World Malaria Day, health professionals have called on Nigerians to always demand for malaria test from their physicians before treatment. 

The experts who spoke at the market introduction of the Fyodor Urine Malaria Test, UMT, in Lagos warned that testing became necessary before treatment as all fevers are not malaria.

The preponderance of the dreaded Lassa Fever virus in Ebonyi State has led to the state government adopting new strategies to fight the outbreak and spread of the disease in the state.

As part of measures to fight the spread of the deadly virus, the Ebonyi State government has embarked on the construction of modern virology laboratory worth N250 million.

A Nigerian scientist and Chief Executive Officer, Fydor Biotechnologies, Dr. Eddy Agbo, has inaugurated a technology that will improve the diagnosis of malaria in the country.

Agbo, who won the 2015 Health Innovation Challenge Award for designing the Urine Malaria Test kit, said the technology would reduce misdiagnosis and give a true picture of the burden of malaria in the country.

MSD, known as Merck & Co., Inc. in the United States and Canada, has added its voice to the World Health Organization (WHO) campaign to promote the use of vaccines against some of the world's deadliest diseases, and for countries to strengthen immunization services and systems.

World Immunization Week, a global awareness campaign launched by WHO in 2012 and commemorated in the last week of April, aims to promote the use of vaccines to help protect people of all ages against disease.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged Rivers Government to strengthen primary healthcare services in the state to ensure qualitative services.

WHO's Country Representative in Nigeria, Dr Rui Gama Vas, made the call in Port Harcourt when he visited Rivers Governor, Chief Nyeson Wike. He said that enlivening primary healthcare service centres across the state would ensure swift reaction to health emergencies.

THE Federal Government yesterday said it would no longer provide resources to any government official to travel abroad for medical attention on cases that could be handled in the country.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 56th Annual General Conference and delegates meeting of Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, in Sokoto, President Muhammadu Buhari, said his administration would not encourage expending hard earned resources on any government official seeking medical care abroad.

A new President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) emerged on the 28th April, 2016 at the 56th Annual Delegate Meeting ‎and General Conference taking place in Sokoto. 

Professor Mike Ogirima, who is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria; along with his Executives are saddled with the responsibility of piloting the affairs of the Association for the next 2 years.