These foods will clean your arteries naturally and reduce cholesterol, which will help prevent a heart attack. Having healthy arteries means preventing the likelihood of heart attacks and strokes.

The British Heart Foundation notes that there are those who have blocked arteries or atherosclerosis and are simply unaware of it. They only become aware of it once they develop symptoms like angina or claudication. Sadly, the first time that someone realizes they suffer from this is when they experience something like a stroke or a heart attack.

Due to difficulties with cash shortage, Babagana Umara Zulum, Governor of Borno State, has provided free drugs to the state’s residents.

This was disclosed by the state’s Commissioner of Health and Human Services, Mohammed Arab Alhaji, revealing the drugs to be worth N300 million.

“Governor of Born State, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, yesterday (Wednesday) ordered the release of over N300 million worth of drugs and other medical supplies to government hospitals for free distribution to patients most of whom were facing difficulties in making payments due to scarcity of new and old naira notes,” the official statement read.

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The pharmaceuticals were unveiled by the commissioner at the ministry’s shops on Baga Road in Maiduguri, as they include, medications for common ailments, kits for mother-to-be deliveries, and other necessary medical supplies.

In order to get their allotments for the rapid deployment of the medications and other supplies, he instructed medical directors and main medical officers of public healthcare centers in Maiduguri Metropolitan Council and Jere to immediately file procedural paperwork.

Arab stressed that patients who lack the means to pay for their services or who have trouble accessing their cash should receive their medications for free.

“While we know some people may have money and still demand free drugs by pretending they lack funds, we cannot because some dishonest people, refuse to help those in need,” Zulum stated.

Popular Nigeria health influencer, Dr. Chinonso Egemba, better known as Aproko Doctor, has revealed why he had his brain tumour surgery in Nigeria and declined suggestions by friends and well-wishers to have the surgery overseas.

Aproko Doctor, on Monday, January 6, 2023, via his social media platforms, opened up about his health issue with Craniopharyngioma, which simply means brain tumour.

In a series of tweets, however, he further revealed that he believed in the Nigeria health sector and is dedicating his life to see the country’s health sector succeed.

Posting a picture of the doctor who operated on him, Egemba wrote, “It was Dr. Tayo Ojo, a neurosurgeon here in Nigeria that did the surgery. So many people begged me to leave the country to get the surgery done, but something kept me back here because I still had trust in us. We just need more investment in our health sector.

“Education, health. For me… those are the two systems any nation needs to succeed. I’m dedicating my life to seeing that they succeed in our country Nigeria. I hope you see it too.”

It was earlier reported that the content creator, via a video shared across his social media platforms, disclosed his ordeal with brain tumour.

Captioning the video, as seen on his Twitter page, he wrote, “Throughout December of 2022, I was fighting for my life. I went blind in one eye on the 3rd of December 2022 and on the 5th, I was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

“Today, I stand here before you to share my story. It has been a long road to recovery but each day is better than the last.”

While speaking in the video, he said, “One thing to understand is that health issues can happen to you regardless of who you are, including me.

“For the past three weeks or two weeks, I have been fighting for my life. Some of you have no idea. It happened that I was diagnosed with Craniopharyngioma which is a brain tumour and I had no idea I would be sharing my story.

“Here I am sitting on this seat sharing my own story about how I had a tumour in my brain. It was so bad that I couldn’t read out of my phone anymore to the point where this eye, I couldn’t read with it and it was also closing. They said it is a Craniopharyngioma and we need to do surgery to remove it.”