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FG insists on no-work, no-pay policy as doctors’ strike continues

THE Federal Government says it will enforce the International Labour Organisation’s policy of “No Work, No Pay”, if the resident doctors continue with their strike, stressing that they will not be paid from taxpayers’ money for doing nothing. Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, also urged the doctors to call off the strike, saying that embarking on industrial action amid the third wave of…

COVID-19: WHO donates 26 ventilators, others to Nigeria

The World Health Organisation has donated 26 ventilators and 3, 560 fingertip oxygen pulse oximeters for the management of patients in isolation and treatment facilities, as well as home-based patients in Nigeria. The organisation’s Country Representative, Dr Walter Kazadi, presented the items to the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, on Thursday in Abuja. Kazadi said that Nigeria had…

Obaseki, Obasanjo, Ehanire seek home-grown solution to improve COVID-19 vaccine access

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki; former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, and Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, on Monday, reiterated the need for a home-grown solution to address vaccine access to totally defeat the COVID-19 pandemic and protect people from other vaccine-preventable diseases. They spoke during the launch of the Independent Task Team of the Coalition for Dialogue on…

$3bn To Be Spend On Immunization – FG

The Nigerian government has decided to scale up immunization in the country by spending $3 billion.

The programme will be implemented through ‘Nigeria’s Strategy on Immunization and PHC Systems Strengthening (NSIPSS)’.

According to report, the total number of Nigerians suffering from acute hepatitis infection since 2018 was 20 million.

A survey conducted in 2018 by National AIDS Indicator and…

Madagascar’s COVID-Organics Has Not Shown Curative Powers – Health Minister

Health personnel give samples of the Covid Organics (CVO) remedy and magnesium to a patient at the COVID-19 Medical Centre of Andohatapenaka in Antananarivo on July 20, 2020. RIJASOLO / AFP

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has said Madagascar’s herbal product, COVID-organics does not have curative powers for COVID-19. 

Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire who is also a…

COVID-19: Our Trials With Indigenous Herbs Have Not Yielded Results Yet – Ehanire

The Minister for Health, Osagie Ehanire, has said that the ongoing trials with indigenous herbs for COVID-19, have not yielded any results yet. (more…)

No conclusion yet on ‘mysterious deaths’ in Kano – Minister of Health, Ehanire Osagie

The Minister of Health, Ehanire Osagie has disclosed that health officials are yet to arrive at a conclusion on the cause of mysterious deaths in Kano. 

  The Minister who said this at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, also disclosed that similar deaths were recorded in eight states of the federation. He assurred Nigerians that investigation which will explain…