More than a year after Nigeria secured a spot on the first list of six African countries to receive the mRNA vaccine technology to build an independent vaccine production system, Africa’s largest economy has yet to unveil strategies to set the process in motion, particularly funding. The transfer of the technology, which birthed the unconventional […]

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed fears that the capturing of an internationally-funded laboratory holding infectious disease samples by fighters in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum could pose a “huge biological risk”. Nima Saeed Abid, the WHO’s representative in Sudan said fighters had “kicked out all the technicians from the lab which is completely under the […]

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The overdiagnosis of malaria parasite by health providers is helping deadlier diseases such as pneumonia to evade medical scrutiny, raising the risk of childhood mortality in Nigeria. Over half of malaria treatments in Nigeria still occur without diagnosis despite widespread availability of malaria rapid diagnostic test (mRDT), an expert study published in the journal, Global […]

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Over half of malaria treatments in Nigeria still occur without diagnosis despite widespread availability of malaria rapid diagnostic test (mRDT). More physicians trivialise test-based verification to assume that every patient presenting with fever or a history of fever should be prescribed malaria treatment, usually with artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), an expert study published in the […]

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R-Jolad, a Multi-Specialist hospital group in Nigeria providing quality and affordable healthcare, has recently unveiled the new R-Jolad Plus facility, a premium and affordable hospital chain designed to provide the middle-income class with a multi-specialized medical experience in Gbagada, Lagos. Prior to this, R-Jolad Hospital fondly known as the People’s Hospital has been operating as […]

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