HEALTH

Obaseki flags off immunisation project, rewards LGAs with N10m.

Daily Dispatch September 21, 2017

The Governor of Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki has flagged off the 2017 routine immunisation intensification project in Egor Local Government Area of the state on Wednesday. However, as an expression of his administration’s high premium on the immunisation project, Obaseki rewarded three

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Health minister performs successful surgery separating Siamese twins

Daily Dispatch September 19, 2017

In most countries, health ministers are seen as bureaucrats more interested in paperwork than medical miracles. Not in Madagascar, where Mamy Lalatiana Andriamanarivo recently picked up a scalpel and separated conjoined Siamese twins in a medical first for the Indian Ocean island nation. “Surgery was performed at the Joseph Ravoahangy Andrianavalona hospital on September

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Artificial seasonings in food can cause diseases – expert

Daily Dispatch September 19, 2017

Nigerians have been warned that using artificial seasonings in their food can cause cardiovascular diseases. Basil Okeahialam, a cardiologist at the University of Jos, gave this warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Aba on Tuesday. According to him, artificial or factory-made seasonings, which have high amounts of salt or […]

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Cholera outbreak: 1m Borno residents to be vaccinated

Daily Dispatch September 19, 2017

About one million people are expected to receive Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) in the 5-day vaccination campaigns against Cholera, in Borno State. The exercise, which started, on Monday, following the outbreak of Cholera in camps for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), would end on Friday. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Haruna Mshelia, disclosed this at […]

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Dangote Foundation, GBCHealth, join forces to build Coalition on Health

Daily Dispatch September 19, 2017

Dangote Foundation and GBCHealth have joined forces to forge a new model of partnership, African Business Coalition on Health (GBCHealth) in Africa. Chairman of Dangote Foundation, Aliko Dangote, shared plans to build an African Business Coalition on Health (ABCHealth), during the Bloomberg Global Business Forum, he was co-hosting, and which took place alongside the United

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Outbreak of cholera in Borno: $9.9million needed to tackle the disease- UN

Daily Dispatch September 19, 2017

The United Nations said that  declared that  $9.9 million was urgently required to respond to the current cholera outbreak in Borno State and prevent further outbreaks in high-risk areas. Peter Lundberg, the Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria, stated this in Maiduguri, through Samantha Newport, Head of Communications, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian