The Ondo State Primary Healthcare Development Agency says it is targeting 2.2 million children in the 18 Local Government Areas of the state for vaccination against measles and rubella. The Permanent Secretary of the agency, Dr Francis Akanbiemu, said this on Thursday during a media sensitisation on measles/rubella vaccination. Akanbiemu, represented by the Director of […]
Adolescents constitute more than 50 per cent of patrons of family planning services at the Babban Dodo Primary Healthcare Centre, Zaria, Kaduna State. Head of the Family Planning Unit at the facility, Mrs Halima Mato, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday that out of 396 clients who accessed family planning services in […]
The World Bank Group has called on the Federal Government to impose special taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and sugar-sweetened beverages to improve primary healthcare. “If we want to improve healthcare in Nigeria, we need to tax the things that are killing us. “The economic rationale for taxing these products is strong if we want to […]
The Niger state government has been tasked to increase funding to combat malaria if it must attain improved service delivery across all primary healthcare centres in the state. State Coordinator, Civil Society in Malaria Control, Immunization and Nutrition (ACOMIN), Mr. Olasunkanmi Kalejaiye, who issued the advice, lamented that carrying out malaria interventions amidst the COVID-19 […]
The Chairman, Ojo Local Government Council in Lagos State, Mr Idowu Rasulu-Olusola, said on Friday that primary healthcare services remains free in the area. The chairman made this known in an interview in Lagos. According to him, the council is not aware that some primary healthcare givers are taxing pregnant and nursing mothers before they […]
As yellow fever vaccination continues in Kebbi State, the Executive Secretary, Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Doctor Abubakar Attahiru Kaoje has said that the 10 days vaccination exercise is expected to cover at least two million people from the implementing 13 Local Governments in the state. The beneficiaries are from nine months to 44 years of […]
Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has inaugurated the Abia State Primary Healthcare Development Agency Board with a charge to live up to expectation in championing primary healthcare to the people of the state. Inaugurating the board at the Government House, Umuahia, the Governor said that the agency is the plank that will drive government’s […]
The commitment made by the Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, to continue to cater to the needs of pensioners who are the state’s senior citizens, has again been demonstrated with the payment of N212, 879,888 million to local government pensioners. According to Obaseki, the state will continue to accord its pensioners the respect […]
Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has tasked healthcare providers to deliver quality services to the people especially at the primary healthcare centres. The governor gave the charge in Benin City recently when he received the executives of the Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria (MWAN), Edo State chapter, at the Government House Benin City. Obaseki, […]