HEALTH

Cholera out break in Northeast kills nearly 100 lives

Daily Dispatch September 23, 2018

A cholera outbreak in north-eastern Nigeria has claimed nearly 100 lives over the past two weeks, the United Nations said Saturday. More than 3,000 cholera cases have been recorded in the states of Yobe and Borno in a region that is also grappling with a Boko Haram insurgency, it said. “The

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Hand washing facilities in Nigerian hospitals below standard—UNICEF

Daily Dispatch September 20, 2018

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says only 33.6 per cent of health facilities in Nigeria have hand washing facilities with soap and water accessible to both patients and staff. Zaid Jurji, UNICEF Chief of WASH disclosed this at a European Union Niger Delta Water Project media dialogue organised by UNICEF in collaboration with the […]

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Shell offers free healthcare to 610,000 in Niger-Delta

Daily Dispatch September 19, 2018

The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) says  no fewer than 610,000 people in Niger Delta have so far benefitted from its free health interventions in the past eight years. Mr Igo Weli, General Manager, External Relations at SPDC stated this at the opening ceremony of a Community Healthcare Programme at Onopa in Yenagoa, Bayelsa on […]

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Boko Haram: UN condemns killing of abducted aid workers in Borno

Daily Dispatch September 18, 2018

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr. Edward Kallon, has condemned the killing of an aid worker and midwife, Saifura Hussaini Ahmed Khorsa in northeast Nigeria.  Ms. Hussaini, 25 years old, was abducted on 1 March 2018 in Rann town, Borno State, where she was working with the International Committee of the Red Cross, following […]

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SERAP accusses Health Minister of mismanagement of funds

Daily Dispatch September 16, 2018

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has called out Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole over poor management and facilities in Nigerian hospitals. SERAP in a statement signed by its Deputy Director, Timothy Adewale urged Adewole to provide information about the actual spending of allocations to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, (LUTH) Idi

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Global fund accuses Nigerian officials of stealing money staff salaries

Daily Dispatch September 15, 2018

Global Fund, an international donor agency, has accused officials of a Nigerian civil society organisation (CSO) of stealing from money meant for their staff salaries. Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, is an international financing organisation founded by billionaire American couple, Bill and Melinda Gates; recently deceased former United Nations