Category: Health & Environment

The Federal Government of Nigeria donates 70 tonnes of Made-In-Nigeria drugs to victims of a train mishap that happened in Cameroon in October 2016.

A professor of Pharmacognosy at the University of Lagos and Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (FPSN), Olukemi Abiodun Odukoya, has won the 12th May & Baker Professional Service Award in Pharmacy

The United Nations (UN) has bestowed Nigeria with Sendai Target Champion for Reducing Disaster Mortality for its successful efforts to stop Ebola taking a hold in the country and limiting the number of cases

Lagoon Hospitals has been named winner in the category of Best International Hospital Award in Nigeria for the year 2016 by the International Healthcare Commission (IHC) – the Gold Standard of international healthcare ratings

Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye and Dr. Darrell Cass alongside a team of about 20 others have performed a surgery on LynLee Hope who suffered from a tumor known as ‘sacrococcygeal teratoma’, underwent a crucial operation at 23 weeks and then returned to her mother’s womb; healed and continued to grow until she was born again at 36 weeks.

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The 2016 Al-Sumait Prize for Food Security has been awarded to the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria, for its work in improving the yields and nutritional quality of major staple food crops, such as cassava, banana and maize. The Institute shares the honor with the Sweet Potato for Nutrition Team International Potato Centre, Peru

The Garki Hospital has inaugurated a subsidised sickle cell clinic to cater for the healthcare needs of the patients in Abuja and its environs.

The aim of the clinic was to provide adequate healthcare facilities at a reduced rate for people living with sickle cell disease.

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