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Insufficient ‘access’ to healthcare kills more Nigerians than poor

WEBLacking access to healthcare leads to more deaths than poor care quality in Nigeria as an estimated 253,000 people die annually due to insufficient access, approximately twice …

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BusinessDay HMO Report: Insights of the Nigerian Health …

WEBBusinessDay presents insights from the Leading HMOs in Nigeria. These HMOs have contributed significantly to policy advocacy, regulatory framework, healthcare delivery …

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How poor data collection, researches hinder studies in Nigeria’s …

WEBPoor data collection and researches are slowing down Nigeria’s ambitions to put its estimated 180 million population under the universal coverage, making the country …

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Repositioning Nigeria’s health outcomes: The private sector …

WEBNigeria’s health negative indices have continued to place the country under the spotlight of international agencies like WHO and UNICEF. This, private sector players in the …

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ARC Nigeria, spurring supply chain revolution in Nigeria’s …

WEBThe World Health Organisation (WHO) says access to medicines and health commodities is one of six major building blocks of an effective health system. Indeed, the role of …

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Kasi Healthcare brings telepresence for Healthcare to Nigeria

WEBKasi International, a healthcare service doing more for healthcare in Nigeria by designing, organising and operating healthcare facilities and services according to international …

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Nigeria’s disturbing high fertility rate, causes, impacts and solutions

WEBOne of the most serious problems facing many developing countries especially Nigeria is the rapid and uncontrollable increase in their population. This is attributed to bearing of …

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‘Nigeria needs to address work issues to prevent doctors’ …

WEBFrancis Faduyile is the president of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA). Faduyile tells OBOKOH ANTHONIA in this interview what Nigeria can do to deepen its universal …

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Hygeia Group’s acquisition of GCH raises prospect of higher …

WEBProspects brightens for Nigeria to become a medical tourism hub in west Africa with the acquisition of Gold Cross Hospital, a 35 bedded multi-disciplinary, tertiary care hospital …

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2019: Nigeria needs increased health budget

WEBNigeria needs an increase in health budget to stem rising cases of deaths. Nigeria has allocated only 2.9 percent of its total budget on health in the last three years, as against …

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Open defecation can affect public health, puts productivity, …

WEBOpen defecation refers to the practice whereby people go out into fields, bushes, forests, open bodies of water, or other open spaces, rather than using the toilet, to defecate. As …

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As improved maternal, child healthcare gets traction in Kaduna

WEBThe ratio has been on a downward trend for couples of years now as it fell gradually from 1,250 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1996 to 814 deaths per 100,000 live births in …

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Quality healthcare major challenge of rural dwellers, says Church

WEBQuality healthcare has been identified as one of the major challenges facing Nigerians living in rural areas. The area welfare specialist officer of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day …

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Lagos flagship primary health centres initiative

WEBThe Lagos State government is currently pursuing a programme geared towards revamping primary health care in order to bring health care services closer to the people across …

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Enugu kick-starts health insurance scheme

WEBEnugu state government has approved the introduction of state health insurance to be called Enugu state agency for universal coverage. Fitan Ekochin, commissioner for …

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Private hospitals owners give conditions for participation in NHIS

WEBSome private hospital owners in Nigeria have indicated readiness to fully participate in the National Health Insurance Scheme which hitherto was considered unprofitable for them. …

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Nigeria’s fruit juice industry: Prospects, competition, challenges

WEBThe Raw Materials and Research Development Council (RMRDC) estimates Nigeria’s annual demand for fruit juice at 550 million litres, while supply by local firms is just 135 …

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Seasoning Market: Knorr, Royco preferred to Maggi

WEBChecks around Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja and other states revealed that the price of seasoning cubes is between N350 and N480 per packet. A packet of maggi cubes goes …

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