The number of persons living with cancer in Nigeria is rapidly increasing, but the number of Radiation machines needed to give them succour are too few and almost all of them are no longer in in good working condition. Close to half of all cancer patients receive some type of radiation therapy during the course […]
Continue ReadingTHE United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has disclosed that over 50million Nigerians do not have access to toilets hence resort defecate openly. Nigeria ranks among the five countries in the world with the greatest rates of open defecation as revealed by the UNICEF body. This was made known in a report issued yesterday by Ijeoma […]
Continue ReadingDavid Spisak, Jr. was diagnosed to have leukemia at just 2 years old. Today, six years later, the Chesapeake, Virginia boy has had two bone marrow transplants and was diagnosed with cancer for the fourth time in March. Although doctors told David’s parents the boy would likely live only four to six weeks without treatment, […]
Continue ReadingThe Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja, yesterday made its way into the list hospitals that offers kidney transplant services following a successful kidney transplant on a 56-year- old man in Lagos. The procedure which took two and half hours was the first of its kind in the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital. Speaking […]
Continue ReadingWilson Uwujaren The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, November 10, 2015 arraigned a former Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre, Owo, Ondo State, Dr Olufemi Abiodun Omotosho and four other suspects: Adebayo Sunday Dada; Yusuf Saka Olarenwaju; Ogunleye Samson Adeyemi and Azeez Dayo Kola before Justice M.I Sani of the Federal […]
Continue ReadingAccording to a Saudi Arabian newspaper, Sada, an Ethiopian housemaid on Sunday, November 8, stabbed the four-year-old son of her Saudi employer while he was asleep. She reportedly brought a kitchen knife and stabbed him eight times while screaming “die… die” The little boy, who was admitted to the intensive care unit in a serious […]
Continue ReadingSierra Leone was officially declared Ebola free by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday, November 7, following 42 days with no cases of Ebola. The ceremony was attended by President Ernest Bai Koroma and (WHO) representative Anders Nordstrom. “We now have a unique opportunity to support Sierra Leone to build a strong and resilient […]
Continue ReadingA study conducted by US-based Guttmacher Institute, and Ipas, a nongovernmental organisation that focuses on female reproductive rights, puts the South-South in the lead, and the South West at the bottom. The report shows that besides insurgency, the North East region of Nigeria is also plagued by a high rate of abortions – second only […]
Continue ReadingMore than 50, 000 Nigerian girls die annually from complicatgions arising from wrong and poorly done abortions. The Nigeria Medical Association Committee on Girl Child Education revealed that young school girls are influenced by peer pressure. Speaking on Wednesday during an awareness campaign organized by the Committee at Model Girls’ Secondary School, Ugwuachara, Ebonyi State, […]
Continue ReadingSome three persons in Guinea have been infected with the Ebola virus. This is as revealed by a senior health official, the development further dampens hopes of an imminent end to the world’s worst recorded outbreak of the disease. Fode Sylla, spokesman for the national centre for the fight against Ebola, said this in Conakry. […]
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