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Posted on May 29, 2018
“Before my father died on Sunday, I called the attention of the nurse when he suddenly showed some discomfort but the nurse gave no attention till my father died, just like that,” Titi Adebayo lamented tearfully. She added that getting the corpse out of the hospital is another herculean task.“We have been at the hospital […]
Posted on May 21, 2018
The Democratic Republic of Congo is preparing to launch an Ebola vaccination programme Monday in a bid to stop the latest outbreak of the dreaded fatal disease from spreading. The UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) put the death toll at 25, with three new cases in the country’s sprawling northwest confirmed by the country’s health […]
Posted on May 10, 2018
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has directed the Ministry of Health to step up surveillance at the nation’s borders, following reports of a fresh outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The outbreak in Bikoro town, northwest of the DRC, has already recorded two confirmed cases of the […]
Posted on April 19, 2018
Nigeria has the worst cancer mortality rate in Africa as four out of every five patients die from the ailment, according to recent statistics. A foremost consultant oncologist and radiotherapist at the University of Nigeria College of Medicine (UNCM) and Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Enugu, Prof. Ifeoma Okoye, who gave the statistics, blamed the high death […]
Posted on April 1, 2018
Penultimate week, Aliko Dangote, African top business mogul, and his American counterpart, Bill Gates, embarked on campaign trips to ensure Nigeria is polio free. To the Africa’s richest man, “it is quite embarrassing that Nigeria is one of the only three countries in the world that are yet to be certified polio free.” The other […]
Posted on March 14, 2018
*4,700 veterinarians in 25 countries trained to stop new infections at source The World Health Organization (WHO) has added a mysterious, yet-to-exist new malady to its list of nine diseases that may cause a worldwide epidemic.As if Ebola, Zika and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) are not enough to worry about, the WHO has added […]
Posted on March 14, 2018
A fresh outbreak of Lassa fever has reportedly killed three persons in Ekiti State, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Rotimi Ojo, has said. Ojo, who addressed reporters yesterday in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, said five of the eight suspected cases tested negative while one was uncertain and the last one pending at press time last […]
Posted on March 3, 2018
Malama Hawwa’u Jamilu, 24, is excited with her newborn twins. She has been engaged in fervent prayers, and she was safely delivered of twins on Sunday, 25th February, 2018. However, the joy that greeted the birth was shortened. The local nurses that delivered the twins noticed that one of them was born with four hands […]
Posted on March 1, 2018
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), in its latest report, said that Lassa fever has claimed 43 lives in Nigeria, with a total of 615 cases reported across 17 states since the beginning of 2018. The agency in its weekly epidemiological report for Week 5 said 193 cases have been confirmed positive to the Lassa […]
Posted on February 26, 2018
THE National Complementary and Alternative Medical Association has advised governments to use the social media for wider sensitisation and mobilisation against the growing threat of Lassa fever. Prof. Peter Katchy, the national president of the association, gave the advice in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Sunday. He said that […]