HEALTH

38% of children in Oyo State are malnourished — Survey

Daily Dispatch November 3, 2020

By NAN Thirty-eight per cent of children in Oyo State are suffering from malnutrition and stunted growth, Dr Kahijat Alarape, the Oyo State Project Coordinator at Accelerating Nutrition Results in Nigeria said in Ibadan on Tuesday. Speaking at an ongoing five-day capacity training for media

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Mobile Policemen Brutalised Nurse, As NANNM Calls For Justice

Daily Dispatch November 2, 2020

By ABIODUN JIMOH, ABEOKUTA Aftermath of the clarion calls for an end to police brutality across the country, two mobile policemen attached to a private company in Ogun State have brutalised a nurse working with the company. The victim, Owolabi Taiwo Peter, a male nurse who is the clinic manager in a private company under […]

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Breaking: Ondo resident begins warning strike

Daily Dispatch November 2, 2020

Hospitals owned by Ondo State Government on Monday began running skeletal services following a warning strike by resident doctors. The doctors said they embarked on the warning strike over four-month unpaid salaries. They threatened to embark on indefinite strike from next Monday if the situation remains unchanged. Spokesman of the aggrieved doctors, Dr Taiwo Olagbe, […]

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Unknown Disease Kills 15 In Delta Communities

Daily Dispatch November 1, 2020

Not less than 15 persons have been killed by an unknown disease in Ute Okpu and Idumesa communities in Ika North- East Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta State. Indications revealed that the ravaging epidemic which started about two weeks ago has led to the mysterious death of over a dozen persons in the neighboring […]

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COVID-19: FCTA Has Not Shutdown Idu Treatment And Isolation Centre

Daily Dispatch October 31, 2020

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) says it has not shut down the Idu COVID-19 treatment and Isolation centre. Dr Mohammed Kawu, the Acting Secretary, FCTA Health and Human Services Secretariat said this in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja. “This is contrary to a report published in the online edition of one of […]

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EndSARS Protest: Hoodlums Did Not Attack Aro Neuropsychiatric Hospital- MD Reveals

Daily Dispatch October 30, 2020

By ABIODUN JIMOH, ABEOKUTA The Management Board of Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro Abeokuta, Ogun State has disclosed that the hospital premises was never attacked or vandalized by hoodlums during the #EndSARS Protest that cut across the country. Dr Agboola Afis, Provost and Medical Director of the hospital declared this in a press statement made available to […]