AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s drug, Enhertu, has been approved by the European Union for treatment of adult patients with an aggressive form of breast cancer.
The federal government says it is engaging with the WHO and the CEPI to develop new therapeutics and a vaccine for Lassa fever.
The management of LUTH listed its challenges to include shortage of manpower, brain drain, encroachment of parts of the hospital’s lands among others.
WHO released a statement after two unrelated patients, both from the southern Ashanti region of Ghana, tested positive for the virus.
An additional 54,530 third-generation vaccine doses have been purchased from Bavarian Nordic, according to the European Commission.
The NMA wants both the federal and state governments to speed up implementation of the mandatory health insurance uptake for citizens.
Anyone seen as being at risk, and those older than 60 are being urgently advised to avail themselves of the additional jab, said to be voluntary.
Mr Osinbajo, on Saturday, underwent a successful surgery for a leg fracture at Duchess International Hospital in Ikeja, Lagos State.
The fund will renovate 10 wards, laboratories, clinic, offices, maternity unit, amenity wards, road network and landscaping of the hospital.
The institutes are said to lack definite sites and offer dubious programmes against the established course curricula as well as charge exorbitant fees.
