HEALTH

Over 20,000 persons missing due to insurgency – ICRC

Daily Dispatch October 26, 2021

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Tuesday said it has registered more than 20,000 cases of missing persons as a result of non-state armed group conflicts in the northeast. The 12-year-old war has claimed the lives of more than 300,000 persons and millions have being

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Wamakko pays N2.6m medical bills of 8 cardiothoracic patients

Daily Dispatch October 23, 2021

Sen. Aliyu Wamakko ( APC-Sokoto North Central) has paid N2,594,000 medical bills of the eight cardiothoracic patients who were operated by a 24-member medical team from Saudi Arabia. Bashar Abubakar, Media Aide to Wamakko said in a statement in Abuja on Saturday that the money was presented to the patients by Alhaji Bashar Muhammad on his […]

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DG Blood Services Commission roles out how commission will regulate blood utilization

Daily Dispatch October 22, 2021

…..As Reps Member Hails President Buihari On Assent To Bill The Director General of the Nigerian Bloods Services Commission , Dr Omale Joseph, has said that the new Agency wouldl subject to adequate funding and would work hard to eliminate sharp and unwholesome practices by blood handling entities within the nation’s healthcare industry. Dr. Omale […]

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180,000 health workers died from COVID-19 globally –WHO

Daily Dispatch October 21, 2021

The World Health Organisation says between 80,000 and 180,000 health and care workers may have died from Coronavirus (COVID-19) globally between January of 2020 and May, 2021. WHO gave the estimate in a new working paper: “The impact of COVID-19 on health and care workers: a closer look at deaths’’ based on the 3.45 million […]

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Quackery threatens Ogun contraceptive uptake

Daily Dispatch October 21, 2021

By: Adémólá Òrúnbon  Indications have emerged that the targeted 46 percent Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) being envisaged by the Ogun State Government in year 2030 could be hardly achieved due to activities of quacks with attendants’ cases of ineffective and failed Family Planning (FP) being reported by women of reproductive age in the State. The […]

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US surgeons successfully test pig kidney transplant in human patient

Daily Dispatch October 20, 2021

For the first time, a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human without triggering immediate rejection by the recipient’s immune system, a potentially major advance that could eventually help alleviate a dire shortage of human organs for transplant. The procedure done at NYU Langone Health in New York City involved the use of a […]