Newly appointed Iranian ambassador to Sierra Leone Thursday said plans are underway, with support from Iranian Red Cross and Red Crescent Society, to assist the ministry of health and sanitation in health care delivery services.
The Ministry of Public Health has begun promoting mutual health districts in its five-year strategic plan to improve the population's access to quality health care.
Management of Saint John of God Catholic Hospital popularly known as Mabessaneh Hospital in Port Loko district has started the construction of a 4-classroom nursing training school.
A nine-year-old failed kidney patient is yet to raise N10 million for treatment at a hospital in India since his admission at the National Hospital on February 15, 2008.
The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Havana Specialist Hospital, Lagos, Dr. Godwin Okeke, yesterday extolled the sterling qualities of his departed colleague, Dr. Chikezie Nwokoro, saying he was a rare gem.
Lagos state government has threatened to sack any health worker whose attitude and commitment to duties negated the attainment of policy thrust of the state government's healthcare services to the people.
The second secretary of the ruling MPLA party in the northern Zaire province, Pedro Armando Makita last Thursday visited the provincial and district hospitals of Mbanza Kongo to learn about their functioning.
People in low-resource countries who are ill with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) will get a faster diagnosis -- in two days, not the standard two to three months -- and appropriate treatment thanks to two new initiatives unveiled by the World
EDUCATION Minister Naledi Pandor has announced that the University of Limpopo's (UL's) healthcare faculty, which produces almost half of SA's African medical graduates, will not be moved from Ga-Rankuwa, outside Pretoria, but will be revamped.
Last month, the World Health Organization's governing body, the World Health Assembly (WHA), formally adopted a set of public policy recommendations for poor governments struggling with disease.
Dr Babatunde Osotimehin, Director General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), yesterday in Abuja, said Benue still ranked highest in HIV prevalence in Nigeria.
Many Malawi enterprises are leading examples in bringing the fight against HIV/AIDS to the workplace, according to a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO) to be released nationally on 4th July 2008, at Crossroad Hotel, Cresta in Lilongwe.
Outgoing World Health Organization (WHO) Country Representative Dr. Eugene Nyarko has called on the Liberian government to place more emphasis on maternal health.
US Ambassador to Angola, Dan William Mozena last Thursday here reaffirmed his country's commitment to continue providing assistance to combat endemic diseases and reduce maternal-infantile death rate.
The National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA) has said that Federal Government's reduction of the HIV/AIDS funds by twenty-five percent this year could affect the campaign against the epidemic in the country.
