Medical activities were partially paralysed at government hospitals in Oyo State on Monday following a one-week warning strike by the Association of Medical and Dental Officers of Oyo State (AMDO). Others are Adeoyo Maternity Teaching Hospital, Jericho Specialist Hospital, Government Chest Hospital and Primary Health CareCentres.
A Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa South Constituency, Dr Kingsley Agyemang, has called on the government to strengthen the country’s public health emergency preparedness following the confirmation of an Ebola virus disease case in Nigeria. The MP urged the government to use developments in Nigeria as an opportunity to demonstrate the country’s readiness to manage a potential outbreak, warning against waiting until Ghana records its first case before identifying gaps in its emergency response system.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa South, Dr Kingsley Agyemang, has urged the government to strengthen surveillance at the country’s borders following the confirmation of an Ebola case in Nigeria. Dr Agyemang acknowledged the Ministry of Health’s announcement of intensified surveillance and preparedness measures, including enhanced monitoring at Kotoka International Airport.
Yobe Govt Activates Emergency Response Centres, Border Surveillance. The Yobe State government said it has not yet recorded any Ebola virus but has activated its Public Health Emergency Incident Management System and developed a comprehensive Emergency Preparedness and Response plan to monitor the possible outbreak of the disease.
By Golok Nanmwa JOS – The Plateau State Government has reactivated isolation centres, intensified public awareness campaigns and strengthened disease surveillance as part of measures to prevent the spread of Ebola into the state. ” The measures were announced alongside 10 resolutions approved at the 12th Plateau State Council on Health meeting held last week “ “The resolutions include establishing a state health trust fund, strengthening disease surveillance, addressing shortages of health workers and establishing an emergency fund for public health threats,” Ba’amlong said.
Adam Obidike, the commissioner for health in Anambra made the appeal during the closing ceremony of 2026 Physicians Week and Scientific Conference of Nigerian Medical Association, Awka Zone in Awka on Sunday.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Mohamed Janabi, says Nigeria currently has no Ebola cases following the medical evacuation of the patient and her husband to Switzerland. Janabi disclosed this in a statement on his official X handle on Monday, adding that Nigeria would continue monitoring 52 contacts, while Switzerland would manage the patient and follow up with her husband.
Devastated, I started looking at rescue dogs on Facebook and came across Clement, who was being looked after by a shelter in Romania. An eight-year-old mixed-breed rescue, Clement had spent most of his life with a woman living with Alzheimer’s.
The House of Representatives, in its second week after resumption from recess, considered a range of public-interest issues.
The Ministry of Health has announced that it will open its recruitment portal on Tuesday, October 27, for the 36th batch of medical officers and dentists who have completed their house jobs and been verified by the Medical and Dental Council. “The Ministry of Health advises all applicants NOT to make any payment for this process,” the statement stated.
Industrial action by senior doctors to begin on 25 November, with only emergency cover provided, union says Senior doctors in England plan to go on strike for two days in November, the British Medical Association has said. The industrial action by consultants is to begin at 6.59am on 25 November, with only emergency cover to be provided.
Included is an opinion feature told through the imagined voice of Auntie Mansa, a Ghanaian woman whose livelihood depends on the land. Ghana’s 2025 Voluntary National Review reported a cumulative 748,941.6 hectares under the Ghana Forest Plantation Strategy for 2017–2023.
Uganda’s Health Minister Chris Baryomunsi told the BBC’s Newsday programme that only essential travellers from DR Congo would be allowed in but would be subjected to “intense public health measures”. The patient in Nigeria is the Ugandan-born wife of a Swiss diplomat who had travelled to the Ugandan capital for a holiday, according to the head of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Jean Kaseya, while the Kenyan had travelled from the DR Congo, where he had business interests.
A United Kingdom (UK) Virologist at the University of Lancaster, Muhammed Munir, has warned of a major challenge of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, saying the incubation period is long, so an infected person might not show clinical signs until after two weeks or more. His comment comes amid the strain of Ebola detected in a 42-year-old woman in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, who was said to have returned from Uganda through Addis Ababa on October 3rd through an international flight to Abuja.
FG confirms evacuation of Nigeria’s index patient, husband to Switzerland. By Chioma Obinna Nigeria’s index case of imported Ebola virus disease has been evacuated from Abuja to Switzerland after showing significant clinical improvement, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, has said.
The protest is not about the Special Intensive Revision, not about a State or a party, or who won or who lost. It is about the invaluable voting right of every Indian, which has been taken away, says the Congress Rajya Sabha Member
Home Office figures show nearly two-thirds of drug tests carried out on arrested abuse suspects detected use of a drug that ‘boosts confidence but increases paranoia’ During lockdown, Charlotte and her ex-partner would spend evenings cooped up in their flat, listening to music, watching YouTube videos and chatting until the small hours. “I wanted to be loved, and when he told me he loved me like nobody ever would and nobody ever will, I drank the Kool-Aid,” Charlotte says.
Health Minister K. Muraleedharan tells Assembly that UDF government’s aim, eventually, is to offer medicines free of cost to all SMA patients. LDF Opposition stages walkout after adjournment motion rejected
KAMPALA, Uganda, Oct 26 — Uganda has ordered citizens returning from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to undergo a mandatory 21-day quarantine as authorities strengthen measures to prevent the spread of Ebola amid concerns over infections reported in Kenya and Nigeria. Health Minister Chris Baryomunsi announced the measure on Sunday during a news conference in Kampala, saying Ugandans with a history of travel to the DRC would be required to quarantine at their own expense.
NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 26 – The government and doctors’ union will begin negotiations on a new four-year Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) on Monday, October 26, with the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) targeting a final deal by December. In a letter dated October 13, Principal Secretary for Public Health and Professional Standards Mary Muthoni Muriuki invited KMPDU Secretary General Davji Atellah to an inaugural negotiation meeting scheduled for October 26 and 27 in Mombasa.
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Health Minister K. Muraleedharan tells Assembly that govt to introduce Bill in next session, says govt agrees in principle to the need to regulate private hospitals, many of which are under management of foreign companies
Ghanaian media personality and US-based healthcare professional, Josephine Oppong-Yeboah has urged the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to intensify breast cancer education and outreach programmes, particularly among women in rural communities. While acknowledging the global campaign to raise breast cancer awareness in October, Ms Oppong-Yeboah said Ghana needed to sustain its education efforts beyond the month.
A Canberra mother is shocked to learn her daughter has been removed from a waitlist for specialist care at a paediatric allergy centre because her condition "no longer meets the requirement for a specialist appointment".