The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Nasarawa State Chapter have threatened to embark on a 3-day warning strike from Sunday midnight over welfare issues. The NMA disclosed this to newsmen on Friday in Lafia. They claimed that the association has given the state government enough time to address their plight of which the state government has been deaf to them.

The Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to avoid appointing health ministers from the same segment of the medical profession in his new appointment of ministers.

World Water Day: Nigerians Observe Day

Nigeria today joins the world in celebrating world water day. This is even as a whopping sum of at least 2.1 billion persons around the world is on the road to finding clean and potable water. About four billion persons are left without water for a month every year.

Medics Advises FG To Address Residency Challenge

A medical doctor at the Maitama District Hospital, Abuja, Dr. Innocent Ikpe, has appealed to the Federal Government to find a lasting solution to the challenges of residency doctors training in Nigeria. Ikpe, who spoke with Newsmen on Saturday in Abuja, noted that graduate doctors find it difficult to be placed in an accredited hospital to complete their residency.

FG Warns On Rising Cases Of Tuberculosis

Nigeria's minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, as well as local and international medical experts have expressed concern over rising cases of Tuberculosis (TB) in Nigeria, especially among the country’s productive workforce.

UNICEF: Babies At Risk Of Contracting HIV

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that about six thousand (6,000) newborns in Kaduna State may be at risk of contracting HIV in 2019 if elimination of Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV interventions is not implemented.