The organisation said in a report on Friday that it was part of ongoing efforts to align the names of monkeypox disease, virus and variants or clades with current best practices.
Akwa Ibom is driving Nigeria’s latest COVID-19 surge as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirms 517 additional infections between August 6 and 11.
The biorepository laboratory was commissioned in Lagos on ThursThe biorepository laboratory was commissioned in Lagos on Thursday.
Mr Falana advocated for a law barring all public office holders from traveling out of the country on health grounds.
Thirty-five people in two provinces have fallen ill with a newly detected virus that is transmitted from animals to humans.
Mr Nkama said that some of the possible solutions to reverse the brain drain and increase the retention of medical doctors and dentists included increasing wages.
ONE Campaign has rated Enugu as the second highest performing state in primary healthcare service delivery in Nigeria from 2019 to 2021.
The increase was by 30.1 per cent to 9.57 billion euros (9.74 billion dollars) compared to the first half of 2021.
“Health insecurity can also affect economic security. We saw a pandemic crippling the world. It started as a health problem,” said the ex-minister.
“This college has produced about 8,000 specialists, but they are relocating outside the country…the current situation in Nigeria is causing a lot of brain drain,” he warned.
