HEALTH

Buhari inaugurates NSIA/ LUTH cancer centre promises to replicate model across the country

Daily Dispatch February 9, 2019

President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday inaugurated the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) and Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) advanced cancer treatment centre in Lagos, with a pledge to ensure that facilities for the prevention, early diagnosis and treatment of cancer are

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HIV/AIDS: EDOSACA tasks LGAs on broad-based support for disease prevention, management

Daily Dispatch February 7, 2019

Edo State Agency for the Control of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), EDOSACA, has tasked the 18 local government councils in the state to support the agency’s efforts at scaling up its intervention programmes across the state. Executive Director, EDOSACA, Mrs. Flora Oyakhilome, said such broad-based support would better

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Rotten tomatoes can cause cancer – Expert warns

Daily Dispatch February 5, 2019

A nutritionist, Mrs Toyin Aliu at the College of Health Technology, Offa, Kwara, has said that the consumption of rotten tomatoes, popularly known as ‘esa’ or ‘baje’, could cause cancer. Aliu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview on Tuesday in Offa that maggots infested tomatoes could cause bacterial poisoning when […]

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UBTH takes delivery of cancer treatment machine

Daily Dispatch February 4, 2019

ABIODUN JIMOH, BENIN CITY Prof. Darlington Obaseki, the Chief Medical Director of University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), has remarked that the hospital has procured a brachytherapy machine that would speed up the treatment of cancer. The CMD made this revelation at a public lecture to mark this year’s World Cancer Day held on Monday […]

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Lassa fever kill 42, with 538 other cases reported in 16 states

Daily Dispatch February 2, 2019

Forty-two lives have been claimed across the country by a fresh outbreak of Lassa fever, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). A total of 538 cases were reported in 16 states in the first 27 days of the year, the NCDC said in an update yesterday. However, only 213 of the reported […]

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Yahaya Bello announces doctors recruitment

Daily Dispatch February 1, 2019

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has granted express approval to the Governing Boards of Kogi State Hospitals Management Board (KSHMB) and Kogi Specialist Hospital, Lokoja (KSSH) to employ more doctors. Dr Haruna Saka, Kogi Commissioner for Health, disclosed this on Friday in Lokoja while reacting to the exit of some doctors from the state’s […]