The Delta State Ministry of Health has confirmed one person dead and 32 others on surveillance following the reported case of Lassa fever.The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Nicholas Azinge, in a statement on Monday in Asaba, said that the state recorded one death from Lassa fever after a medical doctor in the state died […]
Continue ReadingThe Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Prisons Service, Abia Command, Deputy Superintendent of Prisons (DSP) Kalu Ikpe, says the Aba Federal Prison has about 80 insane persons in its asylum.Mr. Ikpe disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Aba. He said the prison was taking care […]
Continue ReadingA medical doctor and two persons have died of Lassa fever in Anambra State, the director of Public Health, Anambra Ministry of Health, Emmanuel Okafor, said on Thursday.The director confirmed the report at a one-day workshop on Lassa fever organised by the ministry to sensitise health professionals in the state on the disease in Awka. […]
Continue ReadingThe Adamawa Government has constituted a six-man investigative panel to probe the alleged ILLEGAL REMOVAL OF A PATIENT’S KIDNEY by a physician in a private clinic in Yola, the state capital.Malam Abubakar Muhammad, the the Information Officer of state Ministry of Health, confirmed this to newsmen on Sunday in Yola. He said that one Dr […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal Government has released N420 million to each of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory to revitalise Primary Health Care centres, Prof. Isaac Adewole, the Minister of Health, has said.He spoke on Monday in Ibadan, shortly after he paid a working visit to the University College Hospital (UCH). Adewole said that the […]
Continue ReadingThe National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Borno says it has seized more than 20 tonnes of illicit drugs from 87 suspects within two years.The Commandant of the agency in Borno, Mr Ona Ogilegwu, announced this in Maiduguri on Sunday during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), stating that the agency […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, while receiving a team led by Dr. Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer of Gavi and The Global Fund, at the State House in Abuja, gave assurance that the lapses that have worked against Nigeria as a nation would be corrected. In a statement issued on his behalf by his Special […]
Continue ReadingSelf-medication has been identified as a major cause of kidney failure among Nigerians. This assertion was made by to Dr Musa Obadiah, the Director, Taraba HIV Programme Implementation Unit, when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria in Jalingo. He said that this was so because drug consumption without prescription often put organs of […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday in Abuja expressed delight over Nigeria’s efforts in registering zero case of wild poliovirus in the last two years. Consequently, Buhari in a statement issued in Abuja, commended stakeholders for making “this historic achievement possible’’. Mr Femi Adesina, the president’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, said Buhari made the […]
Continue ReadingAt about 9pm on July 20, 2014, Lagos was full of life with its usual bustle, and then, First Consultants Medical Centre, Obalende, Lagos, received an unwanted guest, an uninvited visitor. The guest arrived at the Murtala Muhammed Airport from on an international flight, feeling unwell, he was brought into the hospital, his name given […]
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