HEALTH

Kaduna commences Phase II of Covid vaccination

Daily Dispatch June 2, 2021

Deputy Governor of Kaduna state, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe has advised citizens who took the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine in March, to take the second dose because the first jab was like a foundation that requires a build up after 12 weeks. Dr Balarabe who gave the advise after taking her second

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Makinde approves recruitment of 500 health workers

Daily Dispatch June 1, 2021

…flags off construction of 45.3km Saki-Ogbooro-Igboho road…says Saki community’s request for extension of township road project by 1.2km granted Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has approved the recruitment of 500 health workers to fix the gap in the health sector across the state.He added that the challenge of understaffing in the public health sector […]

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Resident doctors extend strike ultimatum by two weeks for FG

Daily Dispatch May 30, 2021

The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has extended its strike ultimatum by two weeks to let the Federal and State governments to address the issues of welfare of their members across the country. The extension is contained in a communiqué at the end of the association’s 41st Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) which held in […]

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All vaccinated people will die, vaccine option great mistake -Virologist

Daily Dispatch May 26, 2021

French virologist and Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier called mass vaccination against the coronavirus during the pandemic “unthinkable” and a historical blunder that is “creating the variants” and leading to deaths from the disease. “It’s an enormous mistake, isn’t it? A scientific error as well as a medical error. It is an unacceptable mistake,” Montagnier […]

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Breaking: Cholera outbreak kills 20 in Bauchi

Daily Dispatch May 25, 2021

No fewer than 20 persons have died from cholera outbreak in Bauchi State. Commissioner of Health Dr. Aliyu Maigoro confirmed this at a briefing on Tuesday. According to him, the index case was a 37- year- old housewife, who was admitted at the Burra General Hospital on April 24, 2021 in Ningi Local Government Area. […]

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Ogun residents to benefit from FG’s COVID-19 cash transfer

Daily Dispatch May 23, 2021

No fewer than 1,382 aged and 380 persons living with disabilities in Ogun State have been selected from the State Social Register of poor and vulnerable to receive Federal Government’s COVID-19 cash transfer, to cushion the effect of the pandemic. The State Coordinator, Ogun State Operations Coordinating Units (Ogun SOCU), Mr. ‘Tunde Adebiyi, who disclosed […]