HEALTH

Yellow Fever: Edo Govt adopts multi-agency response, urges residents to embrace vaccination, sanitation

Daily Dispatch November 28, 2018

The Edo State Government has urged residents in the state to take advantage of the state’s vaccination drive against Yellow Fever disease, assuring of a multi-agency response, in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC). In a

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TB: The story of Esther by Habiba Bello, Jan van Mil and Tristan Bayly

Daily Dispatch November 27, 2018

As Esther passes the measuring tape around her customer’s waist, the smile on her face says it all. She feels elated to be back doing what she loves, making dresses from Adire, a colorful tie-dyed cloth. Esther only began her treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) just three months ago, but she is already well enough […]

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Investigation: TB Champions

Daily Dispatch November 27, 2018

  Those who share their living space with people who have been diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) have a much higher chance of catching the disease than the population in general, so not surprisingly checking all these people (known as ‘contact investigation’) is a way of finding more people who have TB. In Nigeria, USAID’s Challenge […]

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NCS intercepts 13 containers of Tramadol worth N3bn

Daily Dispatch November 23, 2018

Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Friday said it intercepted another 13 containers of Tramadol, a banned addictive substance, and other items at Tin-Can Island Port in Lagos. The Comptroller-General of Customs, Retired Col. Hameed Ali, told journalists in Lagos the seizure had a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N3,13 billion. The News Agency of Nigeria […]

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Illegal importers of N7.31bn Tramadol, other goods, offered us N150m bribe, says Customs

Daily Dispatch November 22, 2018

The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, retired Col. Hameed Ali, on Thursday said the Apapa Command of the service intercepted 40 × 40ft containers of pharmaceutical products with Duty Paid Value of N7.31bn. Ali disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria while addressing newsmen in Lagos concerning the intercepted pharmaceutical products, including

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Strange ailment kills two persons in Edo communities

Daily Dispatch November 22, 2018

ABIODUN JIMOH, BENIN CITY An outbreak of a yet to be identified strange ailment in some agrarian communities of Uhunmwode local government area of the Edo State has claimed tow lives. Edo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. David Osifo, confirmed the outbreak of the deadly strange ailment. Areas allegedly affected by the viral ailment which […]