Sponsorship of a fifteen-year-old student for mitral valve replacement at St George Hospital, London, UK on April 28, 1994.
NHF launched free community blood pressure screening programme in Abuja in 1994 and till date NHF has continued to carry out free community blood pressure screening in urban/rural areas of the country.
NHF sponsored the first National Consensus meeting on hypertension in Nigerian in 1996, in collaboration with the Nigerian Hypertension Society.
NHF donated a pulse Oximeter and a Cardiette Autoruler to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Cardiac Centre, Enugu in December 1996.
Distribution of educational materials on heart health to the public.
Annual Essay Competition among secondary school students on heart health topics.
Annual Walk and Golf Tournament
Campaign against tobacco smoking and advertising
Sponsorship of tobacco bill in the National Assembly, 2001
Annual celebration of the World Heart Day in September. Mr. President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo led the Heart Walk in Abuja during the First World Heart Day in 2000
Research - NHF has been carrying out research in various aspects of heart health. In 1996, NHF carried out verbal autopsy study in collaboration with World Health Organization, Geneva. From 2001, NHF joined the Inter-Heart Study Group which is aimed at determining the causes of heart attack. While in 2002, NHF embarked on Bi-annual health monitor behaviour study of Nigerians in collaboration with World Health Organization, Geneva.
NHF Publications
Guidelines for the management of Hypertension in Nigeria in 1996
