The Enugu State Ministry of health in the early hours of Saturday confirmed the first Coronavirus (Covid-19) disease death in the state.

The Enugu State Government has announced three new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state, bringing the total number to 30.

Activities at medical schools across the South East were at standstill yesterday as clinical lecturers embarked on an indefinite strike over the refusal of the National Universities Commission

Recently, some parents from across the country besieged the medical examination unit of the Open-heart surgeries department of the University...

A cancer expert and radiologist at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Enugu, Prof. Ifeoma Okoye, has given reasons why Nigeria should urgently tap into the $68.9 billion (N24.8 trillion) clinical trial market. Okoye, who is also the pioneer director of the University of Nigeria Centre for Clinical Trials (UNNCECT), told The Guardian: “It…

The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Dr. Chris Amah, has said that he does not regret investing in the open heart project.

The University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu State has taken delivery of ceiling mounted operating Microscope machine that could enable it deal with complex and deep brain surgeries. The facility will also help reduce the cost of treatment of the disease. A team of neurosurgeons from Sweden, led by Dr. Magnus Tiseil, who…

The Association of Resident Doctors, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (ARD UNTH) has withdrawn petitions it wrote last year to the anti-graft agencies against the then Deputy Director of Finance (DDF), UNTH, Ituku/Ozalla, Enugu State, Mr. Onuchukwu Chukwudi, calling for his sack and investigation. He is at present the Director of Finance (DF). The Supreme…

Foremost Nigerian paediatrician, Prof. Winifred Kaine of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu State, has passed on at the age of 85. Born in May 1933 to the family of late Justice Hyacinth Uchenna Kaine at Ossomala in Ogbaru Local Council of Anambra State, Kaine attended St. Mathias Catholic Primary School, Lafiaji,…

No fewer than nine persons were confirmed dead, while 12 persons sustained injuries in an auto crash on Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, Enugu. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Enugu, SP Ebere Amaraizu, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday. Amaraizu noted that the incident happened on Sunday evening at…

Worried that blacks are disproportionately affected by cancer globally, the inaugural Global Congress on Oncology Clinical Trials in Blacks is scheduled for November 13 - November 15, 2018 at the Sheraton hotel, Ikeja Lagos. According to previous studies, Black men are 60 per cent more likely to have prostate cancer than Caucasian men, and more…

The University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu State was a Mecca of sorts yesterday, as parents across the federation besieged the facility with their children for open heart surgeries. As at press time, 75 of the children had undergone various medical examinations and screenings to prepare them for the heart surgeries being conducted…