Healthcare

Prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus in Nigeria in 2020, cancerous infections had killed thousands of Nigerians and consigned many others to the sick bed. IMOLEAYO OYEDEYI, after visiting four of the largest cancer treatment centres across the country, reports how the pandemic’s containment efforts increased the fatality rate of cancer and disrupted the treatments of its survivors. FIFTY-eight-year-old Adewale Oyediran (not real name),...

In this global pandemic era, health workers, as the apex frontline workers, are supposed to be first vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19. JULIANA FRANCIS, in this report, discovered that some health workers, who are expected to vaccinate others, are hesitant to be vaccinated. There is anxiety that this hesitancy may affect the target of nationwide vaccination in Nigeria • I have fertility problem,...

The COVID-19 pandemic came with a lot of disruptions. Priority was given to its containment efforts, which sadly, left other public health challenges like tuberculosis with little attention. JUSTICE NWAFOR, after a visit to Imo State, southeast Nigeria, reports how over- prioritising the pandemic’s containment efforts affected TB patients in the state and its impact on Nigeria’s treatment and control efforts. Augustine Chukwuma, 76, was...