HEALTHWISE

By AbuSatar Hamed ABUJA: The National Economic Council (NEC) has welcomed an urgent call from stakeholders to halt malnutrition and related issues in Nigeria. According to a press release e-signed and made availabile to StarTrend Int’l magazine & www.startrendinternational.com by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media …

ABEOKUTA: Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker has promised that the present administration is determined to make the health sector attractive to both residents and non-residents in a way that will provide solutions to health issues and attract investors to the sector. Dr. Coker made this known while …

By AbuSatar Hamed JoinNigeria, an NGO has declared its intention to assist 40 students with five thousand naira (N5,000) transportation fee from their place of study back to their respective place of residence in the coming December. According to a release e-signed and made available to StarTrend Int’l magazine and …

By AbuSatar Hamed AKURE: The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. The world body also conceives health as the ability of a biological system to acquire, convert, allocate, distribute and utilise …

By AbuSatar Hamed Lagos: All is set for staff of Ecobank Nigeria to “Walk Against Cancer” on Saturday October 5, 2019 as part of activities to mark the Ecobank Day 2019. According to a release signed and made available to StarTrend Int’l magazine & www.startrendinternational.com by Ayomide Oriade of PR …

By Raymond Osho ABEOKUTA: Nurses and Midwives in Ogun state have called the attention of the State government to the rise in the activities of quack medical practitioners in the state. The nurses who expressed fear that the quack practitioners might further cause damage on people’s health in the society, …

BY DOLAPO JINAD The Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to consider them in his ministerial appointment by appointing a Medical Laboratory Scientists into his cabinet to revamp health sectors, especially now that the system is begging for serious attention of government.   …

The Africa’s foremost financial institution, Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, will once again assembly some of the world’s leading experts in Autism for two days of critical discourse on supporting children and adults living with Autism in Africa. The Annual Autism Conference being put together as part of GTBank’s Orange Ribbon …

BY RAYMOND OSHO Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has said that his administration would revolutionalise the health sector for effective services.  Abiodun who disclosed this on Tuesday July 16, 2019 at the 43rd Annual General Scientific Meeting of the West African College Of Physicians (WACP) held in Abeokuta, the …

In its quest at addressing the neglect and stigmatization of children living with Autism face, daily, GTBank PLC., has created a short film “A Mother Knows” to raise awareness about Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in Nigeria. The film; “The mother knows” which was designed to help Speak up against the …