Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Engr Femi Babalola, PDP Gubernatorial aspirant and founder of Jogor Center has expressed his commitment to the fight against sickle cell disease in Nigeria with a continuous donation of N2.5 million that would be disbursed annually (N500,000) to the newly inaugurated Sickle Cell Hope Alive Foundation (SCHAF).

Oyo State government has announced the approval of drug distribution centres in Ibadan to ensure qualitative heath care delivery available to the citizens. 

As early as 5am, the public refuse dumping site close to Yidi Agodi in Ibadan, southwest Nigeria is a beehive of activities - not by sanitary inspectors and hygiene officers - but by individuals who have found the place the best (or most convenient) place to defecate, even though a bold notice threatens 'open defecators' with huge fines.
Women in Ibadan are embracing family planning as means of controlling pregnancy, managing family and improving on their socioeconomic well-being.

Iyetade, the 48-year old daughter of Prof. Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature, has died at the University College Hospital Ibadan where she was receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment.

More than 3,000 residents of Oyo South Senatorial district benefited from the free medical service initiated by the senator representing the district in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Senator Olufemi Lanlehin.

The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, have announced a suspension of the strike its members embarked upon on Independence Day, October 1, 2013. 


Nigeria's premier teaching hospital, the University College Hospital Ibadan will this week celebrate its 56th anniversary with focus on the care of the elderly. The tertiary hospital is one of the most respected medical facilities in West Africa and has trained more doctors than any other hospital in the entire West African region.
United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has donated books worth N11 million to selected Nigerian schools including the University of Ibadan with the goal of institutional strengthening for sustainability.