Introduction: The festive season sees a lot of people returning home to Nigeria (or other African countries) from countries where they have been making a living or schooling. It is a time to come back to visit grandparents, old friends, parents, join in the cultural...
It’s that time again when, as the year draws to an end, there’s a lot of travelling taking place, by road or air. Accompanying this, are the road accidents, kidnapping and some unruly behaviour from hoodlums, depending on which side of town you find yourself. We have...
In recent times, there has been a rise of attacks especially in African countries and security issues are on the rise, which have left some dead and others in need of urgent critical care. The recent attacks in Niger comes to mind where, first Eight people were killed...
At Flying Doctors Nigeria, besides our periodic peer review sessions, we observe annual external audit and review sessions with leading emergency medical professionals from the United Kingdom. We recently conducted one of such audits. This was done by the renowned...
The month of October is all about Breast cancer, the most common invasive cancer in females, worldwide. It is important to understand this disease as thousands of women die every year because of ignorance and a delayed detection. Early detection is very key to...
There is a plague outbreak in Madagascar currently and its spread is unprecedented in the history of the Island. So far, it has claimed 57 lives and there has been a record of over 680 cases. Although Madagascar experiences regular outbreaks, with about 400 cases of...