Diabetes: Padbank, NPLDN call for better funding, end to Stigma

Diabetes: Padbank, NPLDN call for better funding, end to Stigma

By Frank Ulom CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – Padbank Mobile Outreach, the Network of Persons Living with Diabetes in Nigeria (NPLDN), the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Cross River State Council, and several development partners on Friday gathered at Millennium Park, Calabar, to mark the 2025 World Diabetes Day, calling for improved government funding, an end to…

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Rotary Foundation targets malaria, diarrhoea, pneumonia in new health initiative

Rotary Foundation targets malaria, diarrhoea, pneumonia in new health initiative

By Folasade Akpan ABUJA (NAN, CONVERSEER) – The Rotary Foundation is targeting malaria, diarrhoea, and pneumonia, Africa’s leading killers of children, through its Rotary Healthy Community Challenge. Mr Holger Knaack, Chairman of the Rotary Foundation Board of Trustees, said this in Abuja during a medical outreach, explaining that teams would move from community to community…

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Persons Living With Diabetes accuse government of neglect, discrimination

Persons Living With Diabetes accuse government of neglect, discrimination

By Ita Etim CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – A Non-Governmental Organisation, Network of Persons Living With Diabetes in Nigeria has flayed the discrimination against diabetes patients in the country. National Coordinator of the organisation, Comrade Bernard Enyia made the condemnation during an advocacy visit to the State Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Cross River…

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FG converts University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital to Federal University Teaching Hospital Akure

FG converts University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital to Federal University Teaching Hospital Akure

By Joe Udo AKURE (CONVERSEER) – The University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital has been converted to Federal University Teaching Hospital, Akure, Ondo State. The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, who represented the President witnessed the unveiling, handover, and signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the transfer….

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Cross River RUWATSSA marks 2025 Global Handwashing Day

Cross River RUWATSSA marks 2025 Global Handwashing Day with theme ‘Be a Handwashing Hero’

By Emmanuel Ita CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – The Cross River State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWATSSA) has commemorated the 2025 Global Handwashing Day, issuing a call for students to become advocates of hygiene in their schools and communities. The event, held on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, at Government Science Secondary School, Ikot Effanga Mkpa,…

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