HEALTH

300 doctors abandon Nigeria

Daily Dispatch December 15, 2017

Three hundred Nigerian doctors left the country in 2016,  the National President, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Prof. Mike Ogirima has revealed. He said more doctors have already joined the migration train this year. He did not give any statistics, although NAN learnt that 500 doctors sat

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Nguru fire victims get N21m support

Daily Dispatch December 14, 2017

The Yobe Government on Thursday assisted 115 victims of the Nguru market fire disaster with over N21 million to enable them to regain their means of livelihood. The Permanent Secretary, State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Alhaji Musa Jidawa, who supervised the distribution of the assistance, said the gesture was meant to avoid creating a gap in […]

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Psychiatric hospital staff dragged to court over alleged N14m fraud

Daily Dispatch December 11, 2017

A Staff of the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu, Mrs. Stella Achara, has been dragged to a High Court by the Police authority in Enugu for allegedly duping unsuspected job seekers to the tune of N14million. Achara, the Personal Secretary to the Medical Director of the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu, Dr. Jojo Onwukwe, was earlier arraigned before […]

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HOW I CONQUERED OBESITY 

Daily Dispatch December 7, 2017

By Sam Abayomi Soyombo In 2010 at the age of 42, I started gaining weight rapidly but I was not so bothered until when my mobility became a serious concern, getting in and out of the car or sofa was a thing I dreaded, walking for less than a quarter mile was unbearable. I assumed […]

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UN Warns As Nigeria Accounts For Half Of HIV Infection Among Children In West, Central Africa

Daily Dispatch December 6, 2017

The United Nations Children’s Fund has said that no fewer than 270,000 estimated children aged 0 to 14 years were living with HIV in Nigeria in 2016. The figure represented the lion share of half of the 540,000 total infected children in West and Central Africa over the same year. Nigeria also recorded 37,000 new […]

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17 million babies breathing toxic air worldwide–UNICEF

Daily Dispatch December 6, 2017

Almost 17 million babies across the world are breathing toxic air, which could be damaging the development of their brains, according to a report released by UNICEF on Wednesday. There are 136 million children under the age of 1 globally, which means one in eight are being exposed to toxic air, the UN children’s fund […]