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...
by flyingdoctorsnigeria | Jan 6, 2021 | General, Health, Medical News
Long COVID, also known as ‘post-COVID syndrome’, is used to describe the effects of COVID-19 that continue for weeks or months beyond the initial illness. Symptoms of long COVID People with long COVID experience a range of persistent and fluctuating symptoms;...
by flyingdoctorsnigeria | Jul 12, 2018 | CSR, First Aid, General, Medical News
Introduction The US Dept. of Health defines family planning as ‘educational, comprehensive medical or social activities which enable individuals, including minors, to determine freely the number and spacing of their children and to select the means by which this may...
by flyingdoctorsnigeria | May 10, 2018 | Emergency Response, General, Health, Medical News
The international public health alerted the public on the recent Ebola outbreak at Democratic Republic of Congo. In the past five weeks, the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen 21 suspected cases with Ebola-like symptoms and 17 deaths. The purpose of this article is...
by flyingdoctorsnigeria | May 10, 2018 | Emergency Response, General, Health, Medical News
As healthcare advances, more can be done to treat patients that have what were previously disabling or life-threatening conditions like burns, severe injuries or strokes. But, in order to provide complex healthcare safely, professional teams need to see sufficient...
by flyingdoctorsnigeria | May 8, 2018 | Emergency Response, Expats, General, Health, Medical News
Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a disease condition in which the body’s ability to produce or respond to the hormone insulin is impaired, resulting in abnormal metabolism of carbohydrates and elevated levels of glucose in the blood....
