Tunji Alausa
10 Jun 2024
To reduce the high burden of care in hospitals, the Federal Government intends to expand nursing schools and enroll over 100,000 nursing students before the end of the year. It has already enrolled about 60,000 student nurses.
24 May 2024
The federal government has increased the enrollment quota in medical, nursing, and other health professional schools has been increased by 100 per cent, doubling it from 28,000 to 64,000 within one year. The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Pate, revealed this during a sectoral ministerial press briefing in Abuja on Friday.…
23 May 2024
Federal Government has said it is unacceptable and unsustainable that Nigeria spends over $2 billion out of its meagre foreign reserves on health tourism, stressing that it is in a hurry to reposition the health sector to bring it at par with what obtains in other countries.
22 May 2024
The Federal Government has expressed its readiness to support investment in the local manufacturing of drugs, saying the country does not need to import everything it needs.
20 May 2024
The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Tunji Alausa, has said people need to change their narrative on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) crops for the nation to achieve the ambition of becoming a Blue Zone
16 May 2024
Despite the tremendous achievement recorded in the HIV response in the country over the past four decades, stigma and discrimination remain significant barriers to achieving the goals of ending HIV as a public health threat by 2030.
8 May 2024
Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Tunji Alausa, yesterday, explained that President Bola Tinubu’s absence from the country is not due to medical reasons.
28 Apr 2024
The Nigerian Federal Government has taken a significant step towards digitizing and transforming its healthcare sector by appointing a cybersecurity and digital transformation expert, Dr. Ibrahim Waziri
19 Apr 2024
The Federal Government is set to develop a sustainable roadmap for HIV control, vaccination and disease outbreak response in the country. Â
27 Mar 2024
The Federal Government has said it is planning to put a total ban on the importation of syringes into the country to promote local production.To this end, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control
25 Mar 2024
The Nigerian Government is set to place a ban on the importation of medical syringes in a bid to boost the manufacturers of the product in the country. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) announced this in a statement on its X handle on Sunday. NAFDAC said the Minister of…
21 Mar 2024
The Federal Government, yesterday, received 72 project vehicles and some laboratory diagnostic equipment from global donors to support the country’s Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Tuberculosis national response.
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