HEALTH

Obaseki harps on stiffer regulation to checkmate drug abuse, as World marks Int’l Day against Drug Abuse

Daily Dispatch June 25, 2018

Edo State Governor,  Godwin Obaseki, has called for stiffer regulations to check the rise in illegal distribution and illicit trafficking of prescription medicine and other contraband drugs. Obaseki noted this in commemoration of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

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Cholera kills three pupils in Gombe, 27 hospitalised

Daily Dispatch June 24, 2018

Cholera outbreak at Tsangaya Islamic school, Madaki, in Gombe State, has led to the death of three pupils, while 27 others were hospitalised. Gombe State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Kennedy Ishaya, confirmed the outbreak to newsmen in Gombe on Sunday during an inspection visit to Madaki Primary Health Care facility where the victims are hospitalized. He […]

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Association of Pharmacists destroys N452m worth of drugs

Daily Dispatch June 21, 2018

Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) has destroyed expired drugs worth N452 million in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The destruction of the drugs was carried out in conjunction with the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN), NAFDAC, NDLEA, among others. Mr Sunday Ike, FCT Chairman of ACPN who spoke […]

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Pay our 2 months salary, health workers to FG

Daily Dispatch June 13, 2018

The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) has appealed to the Federal Government to pay its members April and May salary in line with their agreement to suspend their strike. Mr Achimugu Isaiah, the branch Chairman, Federal Medical Centre (FMC Keffi), Nasarawa State, made the call on Wednesday while fielding questions with the News Agency of […]

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Civil society charge Edo government over abandoned central hospital

Daily Dispatch June 12, 2018

Civil Society Organisations in Edo State have called upon Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki to find a lasting solution to the abandoned Central hospital in Benin City. Almost two years when it was commissioned, the former governor of the state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole at the inauguration ceremony stated that the state government had paid for […]

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U.S.-based group to build dialysis centres in Nigeria

Daily Dispatch June 11, 2018

A U.S.-based Nigerian foundation, Handover Heals Foundation, said it planned to establish state-of-the-art dialysis centres in Anambra and other states in Nigeria. President and Chief Executive Officer of the foundation, Ms Ukay Chima-Jorji, said at the foundation’s 2018 Award and Gala Night in New Jersey, that chronic kidney disease was assuming frightening epidemic