HEALTH

Cholera fast spreading in IDP camps – UN

Daily Dispatch September 7, 2017

Cholera is spreading fast through camps housing people displaced by Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Most deaths were recorded in Muna Garage camp on the outskirts of state capital Maiduguri, the epicentre of the Islamist insurgency

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Lassa fever outbreak affected 19 states — Institute

Daily Dispatch September 7, 2017

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday confirmed, at least one reported Lassa fever case, in each of 19 states in current the outbreak which started in December 2016. The development was published in a report on NCDC’s website. The 19 states are Ogun, Bauchi, Plateau, Ebonyi, Ondo, Edo, Taraba, Nasarawa, Rivers, Kaduna, […]

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Cholera outbreak: Borno records 23 deaths, 530 suspected cases

Daily Dispatch September 7, 2017

Cholera has claimed no fewer than 23 deaths and 530 suspected cases in Borno, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Thursday . The UN agency added in a statement that a cholera outbreak was first reported by the state’s Ministry of Health, adding that the first case was recorded […]

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FG, NARD signs new agreement of settlement as Doctors insist on payment before resumption

Daily Dispatch September 7, 2017

After about 10 hours of negotiation, striking resident doctors in the country in the wee hours of Thursday signed a new Memorandum of Terms of Settlement with the Federal Government. The doctors, operating under the aegis of the National Association of Resident Doctors, after the meeting, which began at about 2:30pm on Wednesday and ended […]

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Doctors Strike: You breach the constitution- Ngige lambasts doctors

Daily Dispatch September 6, 2017

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has berated members of the National Association of Resident Doctors for embarking on strike, accusing them of breaching the constitution. Ngige said this at a mediation meeting which is ongoing at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja. The minister said he was hopeful that the current strike would […]

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Resident doctors in Borno join strike amid cholera outbreak

Daily Dispatch September 6, 2017

The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) on Tuesday embarked on a nationwide indefinite strike, despite the emergencies occasioned by Boko Haram insurgency and cholera outbreak in Maiduguri. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, the Chairman of the association, Dr Muhammad El-Yakub, made the disclosure while addressing newsmen at the end […]