Pension Credit can boost a person’s income by more than £3,500 a year. The benefit provides a top-up to a person’s income to £201.05 a week for single claimants and up to £306.85 a week for couples. Some older people think because they have savings or own their home they won’t be eligible for… Read More »
World Health Organisation (WHO) has said over eight million people die yearly due to tobacco consumption. In a statement issued yesterday by the Regional Director, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, to mark the 2023 World No Tobacco Day, the global agency said the epidemic is one of the biggest public health challenges the world has ever witnessed.… Read More »
• Fake antimalarial drugs kill 267,000 every year, 170,000 children die from unauthorised antibiotics A special report by the United Nations (UN) has warned of rise in substandard and fake medicines in the Sahel. According to a threat assessment report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), from ineffective hand sanitisers to fake… Read More »
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) have concluded arrangements to immunise at least 930,000 children in Nigeria yearly in to cover the children who missed routine immunisation as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The post WHO, NPHCDA to immunize 930,000 children in Nigeria yearly appeared first on… Read More »
Despite a series of intervention programmes against the malaria epidemic in recent times, Nigeria is apparently not winning the war against the deadly scourge, with an estimated sum of N2.04 trillion still routinely spent on treatments yearly. The post International Day: Nigerians spend N2.04 trillion yearly on malaria prevention, treatment appeared first on The Guardian… Read More »