Category: Health

Lassa fever: 102 dead as 17 States record 4,632 cases

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102 Lassa fever deaths has been recorded in Nigeria in 38 Local Government Areas, LGAs of 17 States. Disclosing this in its Lassa fever Situation Report, EpiWeek52: 27December–2January,2022, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, said the affected states have been alerted on the disturbing trend. The states affected include Edo (212), Ondo (175), Bauchi (39), Taraba (22), Ebonyi (18), Plateau (9), Benue (8), Kaduna (8), Enugu (5), Nasarawa (3), Kogi (3), FCT (3), Cross River (1),  Imo (1), Anambra (1), Delta (1), and Abia (1). In week 52 (December…

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WHO target to vaccinate 70% of world’s population by mid-2022

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Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), and a group of global health leaders, yesterday, pledged to vaccinate 70 per cent of the population of all countries by mid-2022. They said more than 5.7 billion doses have been administered globally but only two per cent of those have been administered in Africa, even as they issued an urgent call for vaccine equity worldwide and in Africa in particular. The leaders, at a press conference, stressed that the worst pandemic in the last hundred years will not…

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Health sector in crisis as NMA threatens to join resident doctors’ strike

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A nationwide industrial action by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), which commenced on August 2, 2021, over the demand implementation of agreements reached with the Federal Government on payment of owed salaries and arrears, hazard allowance, residency programme, payment of life insurance benefits to families of members that died of COVID-19 among others, may take a worse dimension if unabated. This may lead to the shut down of the health sector by next month, as the umbrella body of all medical doctors in the country, Nigerian Medical Association…

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Captain Hosa Okunbo dies of pancreatic cancer in London

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Edo State born billionaire businessman, Captain Hosa Okunbo, has died after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. Okunbo, a professional pilot and philanthropist, died on Saturday night; 12 months after doctors said he had nine months to live. Late Okunbo, who moved to London a year ago for treatment, is survived by widow, Nosa, and children. In October last year, there were rumours that he was in a coma and that his illness was due to the outcome of Edo State governorship election. The business mogul admitted that, he was…

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Guaranty Trust Annual Autism Conference Holds August 3-4 at Muson Centre, Lagos

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The eleventh edition of the Guaranty Trust Annual Conference will hold on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 3 and 4, at the Muson Center, Lagos. Themed, “Life Beyond the Diagnosis,” the conference will feature in-depth conversations on supporting people living with autism facilitated by medical experts and specialists from around the world. Guaranty Trust has been at the forefront of the advocacy for children and adults living with autism. Its Annual Autism Conference is the major rallying point for driving awareness about Autism, campaigning against the social stigma associated with developmental…

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Buhari postpones medical trip to London

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President Muhammadu Buhari has postponed traveling to London for medical check-up. Earlier, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina had in a statement he issued on Thursday said that President Buhari would proceed to London, the United Kingdom on Friday, June 25, 2021, for a scheduled medical follow-up. Adesina in the statement said that the president would be due back in the country during the second week of July 2021. However, Adesina in a fresh statement on Friday said, “The medical follow-up visit of…

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President Buhari off to London for medical check-up, to return in July

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President Muhammadu Buhari, today, Friday, June 24, is to proceed to London, the United Kingdom, for a scheduled medical follow-up. It will be recalled that, the President had on March 30, 2021 undertaken a similar trip, which kept him in the United Kingdom for about two weeks. Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity), Femi Adesina had on Thursday, informed that President Buhari is due back in the country in the second week of July, 2021. Share on: WhatsApp

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Intensive care unit of Premier hospital shut down over chef’s death

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The death of the celebrated chef, and CEO of I Luv Desserts, Adepeju Ugboma who allegedly died from surgery complications, has made the State Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency to shut down the Intensive Care Unit of Premier Specialists’ Medical Centre, Victoria Island. Peju, as she is fondly addressed, died after undergoing a botched surgery for fibroid related ailment at the hospital. The late microbiologist was said to have suffered internal bleeding after the surgery, which made her condition to deteriorate and she was later admitted to the intensive…

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105 medical doctors resigned in Ondo State over poor welfare package

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No fewer than 105 Medical Doctors resigned from the Ondo State hospitals in the last one year, according to Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in the state, Dr Stella Adegbehingbe. He disclosed this in a statement attributed the mass resignation of medical doctors to the trend on irregular and percentage payment of salaries by the state government. Adegbehingbe who lamented that the mass resignation of its association members from the state government’s workforce said this had affected the output in most of the public hospitals in the state.…

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COVID-19: FG restricts mass gatherings, re-introduces curfew

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As part of the efforts to curtail further spread of COVID-19, the Federal Government has re-introduced a nationwide 12am to 4am curfew. The National Incident Manager, Mukhtar Mohammed, disclosed this at a press briefing of the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 in Abuja. Mohammed said the curfew would take effect from midnight of Monday. He also said with effect from Tuesday, night clubs, gyms and others would remain closed till further notice. He said gatherings of religious groups and weddings among others have been reduced to 50 per attendance, while…

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