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The Federal Government has approved a new policy known as Medipool, which may lower the costs of drugs and other medical consumables for Nigerians. This was part of the decisions reached at the Federal Executive Council meeting chaired by President Bola Tinubu at the State House, Abuja, on Monday. The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Ali Pate, said Medipool is a […]
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has refuted recent claims by Pastor Poju Oyemade regarding the cost of training medical doctors in Nigeria, stating that such remarks can fuel animosity between healthcare workers and the public. In a now-viral sermon, Pastor Oyemade claimed that Nigerian doctors spend just ₦500,000 throughout their education, contrasting this […]
The Nigerian Government, through the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, has received over 1 million doses of the prevalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Men5CV) from the Gavi-funded global stockpile. The shipment, which arrived on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, aims to combat the meningococcal C and W outbreak in Northern Nigeria. This first batch of vaccines […]
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