By Alice Kagina A team of thoracic surgeons from different countries headed by Dr. Diego Gonzalez Rivas had a two-day training visit at King Faisal Hospital (KFH) to introduce a uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) technique in Rwanda. The medical camp ended on August 6. Gonzalez is a Spanish pioneer surgeon in the world performing […]
By Sammy Lutta Turkana County is on high alert over fears of a surge in tuberculosis infections, which officials say could hit 2,500 cases in a year. The county has stepped up the war against TB with more testing kits that will be strategically installed in remote health centres. The county’s TB coordinator, Dr Job […]
DAKAR, Aug 6 (Reuters) – A probable case of Marburg virus, a deadly hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, has been detected in Guinea, the health ministry said on Friday. Two laboratories in Guinea confirmed the case of Marburg and a sample has been sent to neighboring Senegal for further confirmation, the ministry’s National Agency of […]
By Onyebuchi Ezigbo The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has said about 122 million Nigerians currently face the risk of being infected by one form of prevalent tropical disease or the other. The agency lamented that the country faced possible reversal of the fragile gain made in rescuing the populace from the health […]
The Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) National Coordinator at the Federal Ministry of Health, Dr Nseobong Akpan, has said that the country is still confronted by the challenges posed by 14 out of the 20 neglected tropical diseases listed by the World Health Organisation. Though Akpan identified 15 of these diseases in Nigeria, Premium Times‘ findings have revealed that […]
