A resident doctor at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, Dr. Oluwafemi Rotifa, has reportedly passed away due to exhaustion from stress, He had reportedly worked non-stop for 72 hours at the hospital’s emergency unit. The deceased doctor, who was popularly called Femoski
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Friday issued a public health alert for Cowbell ‘Our Milk’ 12g sachet milk. Team@orientactualmags.com learned that NAFDAC in a social media post on Friday noted that Promasidor Nigeria Ltd, which is
A former member of Kwara State House of Assembly, Hon Moshood Bakare on Sunday visited victims of banditry in Babanla at a private hospital and the General Hospital, Ilorin, and wished them a speedy recovery. Calling it ‘a senseless attack’, the former state
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has alerted the public to possible outbreak and spread of Chikungunya disease in the country citing worsening environmental and climatic conditions. Team@orientactualmags.com learned that the NCDC said this in a statement issued by its Director-General, Dr
About 20 million people, representing 10 percent of Nigeria’s population, are possible carriers of the hepatitis virus while experts have submitted that the B and C variants are more prevalent in Northern Nigeria. A statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com noted that a gastroenterologist
Kebbi State governor, Comrade Dr. Nasir Idris, the Kauran Gwandu, has cautioned against politicization of the activities of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international humanitarian medical NGO in the Land of Equity. A statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com by the governor’s Special Adviser on Media,
Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has directed that money should be made available for the payment of medical bills for 13 students at the Usman Dan Fodio University Sokoto (UDUS), who are indigenes of Kwara State and were among the victims of the crash recorded
Ensuring that synesthetic drugs and herbal drugs are considered as the same in terms of importance and value, and making sure that there is absence of discrimination will help to achieve the desired healthcare advancement in the country, a professor of Pharmaceutics and
Former Chairman of Senate Committee on Health, who was also the principal sponsor of the NHIA Act 2022, Dr. Ibrahim Yahaya Oloriegbe has been formally inaugurated as Chairman of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Governing Council. The inauguration ceremony held at the
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has picked holes in the recent decision made by the National Universities Commission (NUC) to recognize Pharmacy, Physiotherapy and Optometry graduates as ‘Doctors’ instead of calling them Pharmacists or Physiotherapists. Team@orientactualmags.com learned that the Executive Council
