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How We Ensure the Safe Transfer of Our Patients

by flyingdoctorsnigeria | Oct 17, 2025 | Emergency Response, Expats, First Aid, General, Ground Ambulance, Health, Occupational Health, Occupational Health, Remote Site, repatriation

In a geographical terrain as vast and diverse as the region of Africa- access to timely, high-quality emergency medical care can often be the difference between life and death. At Flying Doctors Nigeria (FDN), we’ve made it our mission to help bridge that gap by...

IS IT EVER SAFE TO SELF-MEDICATE?

by flyingdoctorsnigeria | May 28, 2022 | Emergency Response, Expats, First Aid, General, Health, Medical News, Occupational Health, Occupational Health

The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines self-medication as the use of drugs to treat self-diagnosed disorders or symptoms or the intermittent or continued use of prescribed drug for chronic or recurrent disease or symptoms. Self-medication is a very common...

ASTHMA

by flyingdoctorsnigeria | Jul 12, 2018 | Emergency Response, First Aid, General, Health, Occupational Health

Asthma is a disease in which the airways narrow, swell and produce extra mucus. This makes breathing difficult and triggers coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath. The World Health Organization estimates that 235 million people suffer from asthma all over the...

CERVICAL CANCER

by flyingdoctorsnigeria | Jul 10, 2018 | General, Health, Occupational Health

Cervical cancer is a type of cancer that occurs in the cells of the cervix; the lower part of the uterus that connects to the vagina. In 2015, the World Health Organisation explained that approximately 90% the 270,000 deaths from cervical cancer occurred in low and...

TB IN NIGERIA

by flyingdoctorsnigeria | Jun 4, 2018 | CSR, Expats, General, Health, Occupational Health

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared Tuberculosis (TB) a global emergency in 1993. Twenty-five years later, TB remains one of the world’s major causes of illness and death. In fact, it is currently ranked as the 9th leading cause of death worldwide. The 2017...

Ever wondered why smoking is so dangerous?

by flyingdoctorsnigeria | May 31, 2018 | Emergency Response, First Aid, Occupational Health, Occupational Health

Tobacco kills up to half of its users. Leading cause of death, illness and impoverishment The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, killing more than 7 million people a year. More than 6 million of those deaths are the...

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