A non-governmental organisation, Stand Up To Cancer Naija, has urged the federal government to include the treatment of cancer to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), to enable more people have access to cancer treatment and management in the country. Worried by menace, the organisation organised a free breast cancer testing for residents of Abuja at the weekend.
Not less than 200 policymakers, development partners, public health experts and advocates from West Africa and around the world will gather on the 8th to 11th November to highlight the importance of addressing emerging health threats using a ‘One Health’ approach – one that takes into account the inextricable link between the health of humans, animals and their environments.
Ogun State medical doctors have lamented what they described as a very poor state of the health sector and urged the government to urgently act before the sector completely collapse.
The House of Representatives on Thursday in Abuja urged the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on malaria in the country. The call was sequel to a unanimous adoption of a motion on Urgent Matters of Public Importance by Rep. Abubakar Adamu (Niger-APC).
The Federal Government has commended a US-based Nigerian surgeon, Dr Oluyinka Olutoye, who successfully removed tumour from a baby in her mother’s womb. In a statement in Abuja, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, said that the Nigerian Government and people were proud of Olutoye.
The Federal Government has failed to keep to its commitment to make available $3m annually for contraceptive commodities and services. This is fuelling maternal mortality, which claims five women every hour, according to the Association for the Advancement of Family Planning.
Alcohol consumption caused more than 700,000 new cancer cases and around 366,000 cancer deaths in 2012, mainly in rich countries, according to data reported Wednesday to the World Cancer Congress in Paris.
A university don and an expert in stroke management, Professor Arthur Onwuchekwa, has expressed worry over the increasing cases of hypertension and stroke in the country. Onwuchekwa explained that though, the cause of hypertension was preventable, the lifestyle of some Nigerians was making stroke difficult to conquer.
On Friday the 11th of November 2016 the Healthcare Federation of Nigeria (HFN) will be hosting a CEO Breakfast Meeting with the Honorable Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole.
As part of its advocacy role, HFN has had a long standing tradition of creating a consultative interface between private sector practitioners and public policy officials. The aim of which has been to proactively promote Public-Private Partnerships, promote incentives for private healthcare investments and ultimately create an enabling operating environment for healthcare businesses in Nigeria. Such ambitions can however only be realized by creating consistent channels of interaction between representatives of the private health sector and public policy representatives.
The CEO Breakfast Meeting with the Honorable Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole which is strictly by invitation and open only to corporate members of the HFN, presents a unique opportunity for stakeholders within the private healthcare sector to discuss healthcare priorities, and provide relevant input into the policy direction and Health agenda of the Federal Government.
'The World Health Organisation, WHO, yesterday said that Nigeria recorded 744 suspected cases of measles and two deaths between September and October, 2016 even as it reported that cases of measles are increasing in Bomo state. 
The freezing of posts in the public sector, especially in health, has resulted in an acute shortage of radiographers, particularly therapy radiographers, who are key in the fight against the emerging threat of cancer and other conditions.There are less than 300 practising radiographers in the country despite almost 40 students graduating every year from training centres.
Anambra State government has sealed off four health nstitutions in Onitsha for not being registered, operating illegally, and located within unhealthy environment. 
The Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN), says it is collaborating with the Jigawa Government to establish an annual operational plan towards eliminating malaria in the state by 2020.
400 children still die from measles every day, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. According to the WHO and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the fight against measles is being hindered by a lack of political will to get every child immunized against the disease.
