A sizable number of primary health centres across the various local governments in the country face extinction due to the failure of government at the grassroots to recruit nurses. …
Category: Health
BREAKING: US approve RSV vaccine, break new record
The United States of America has become the first country to approve the Respiratory Syncytial Virus in the world. RSV is a common respiratory virus that usually causes mild,…
8-yr-old girl tests positive for HIV after mother’s boyfriend molested her
VOICE AIR MEDIA News Update An 8-year-old girl (name withheld) has e tested positive for HIV after her mother’s boyfriend allegedly raped her. The mother’s boyfriend, identified as Jude Chinedu, aka Ijiegbe,…
BREAKING: WHO seeks community collaboration to end Tuberculosis
The Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, has called for joint action between communities and the health system to bring Tuberculosis under control. Ghebreyesus made the…
Ekiti Health Commissioner Clears Air Over Report On Primary Health Care Facility
THE Ekiti State commissioner for health has cleared the air over mischievous reports from Sahara reporters platforms on PHC facility in the state. In the statement personally signed by the commissioner, Dr…
846 Lassa fever cases, 148 deaths recorded in 99 Local Govt Areas
VOICE AIR MEDIA News Update THE Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded 846 Lassa fever cases across 99 Local Government Areas in 25 states. The predominant age group affected…
Ghana approves use of Malaria Vaccine developed by Oxford Varsity on children
VOICE AIR MEDIA News Update A new ground-breaking malaria vaccine developed by Britain’s Oxford University is to be used in Ghana, the first time it has received regulatory clearance anywhere in the…
UK restriction can’t stop doctors’ migration— NMA, NARD
Medical bodies in the countries have said the United Kingdom government’s code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel will not stop Nigerian doctors from migrating to…
What Buhari’s 8-month Sickness Cost Nigeria – Presidential Aide reveals
VOICE AIR MEDIA News Update Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, on Monday, claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s eight-month sickness back in 2017 was a setback…
‘Japa’: NASS seeks compulsory five-year practice for Nigerian doctors
VOICE AIR MEDIA News Update A bill to prevent Nigerian-trained medical or dental practitioners from being granted full licences until they have worked for a minimum of five years in the country…