HEALTH

Buhari appoints Senator’s why as NAFDAC DG

Daily Dispatch November 11, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Professor Moji Christianah Adeyeye, wife of Senator Olusola Adeyeye (Osun Central) as the new Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC. Mrs. Adeyeye, founder of Drugs for AIDS and HIV Patients, a

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Measles: Kaduna begins immunisation of 1.5 m children

Daily Dispatch November 9, 2017

Kaduna State Government on Thursday began a state-wide measles vaccination campaign targeting about 1.5 million children, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The campaign would run in two phases, with the first phase covering 13 local government areas to run from Nov. 9-14, and 10 local governments under the second phase from Nov.17-22. Jonathan […]

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FG distributes drugs, medical products to prisons nationwide

Daily Dispatch November 9, 2017

The Federal Government has distributed drugs and other medical products worth millions of naira to prison formations in the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory. The Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.) who presented the drugs to state Comptrollers of Gombe, Rivers, Ogun, Enugu and Niger on Thursday in […]

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Anti-Malaria campaign records laudable progress – Isaac Adewole

Daily Dispatch November 8, 2017

The Minister of Health, Prof. Issac Adewole, says the anti-malaria campaign has achieved remarkable progress with the prevalence dropping from 42 per cent in 2012 to 27 per cent in 2015. Adewole said this at the launch of the 2017 Long Lasting Insecticidal (LLI) Nets replacement campaign in Owerri. The minister, who was represented by […]

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Strange illness claims 50 children in Jigawa

Daily Dispatch November 6, 2017

A strange illness has struck at Gidan Dugus under Wangara district of Dutse Local Government Area of Jigawa State killing about 50 children‎. The disease was said to have first surfaced in July but was not reported by any person from the community until October 28. It was gathered that the people of the area […]

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10.25 million obese children in Africa – Report

Daily Dispatch November 6, 2017

African countries have largely failed to address a rising obesity epidemic that could soon become the greater public health crisis, experts said as new data was released. According to the Global Nutrition Report published, a quarter of the world’s 41 million overweight children (10, 250, 000) under five live in Africa, a figure that has […]