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Mosquito: Scientists releasing 20m to shrink disease carrying mosquitoes

Daily Dispatch July 21, 2017

This summer, scientists in California are releasing 20 million mosquitoes in an effort to shrink the population of mosquitoes that can carry diseases. It sounds counter-intuitive. But the plan is to release millions of sterile male mosquitoes, which will then mate with wild female mosquitoes.

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Ogun to immunise 2million children against maternal child mortality

Daily Dispatch July 20, 2017

The Ogun State Government has expressed its determination to immunize over two million children from age 0-5 and 270,000 pregnant women during its ongoing Maternal Newborn and Child Health Week (MNCHW). Governor Ibikunle Amosun gave this assurance during the flagging off of July 2017 round of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week (MNCHW), held at […]

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Gynaecologist advises women with B-negative blood on steps to take after miscarriage

Daily Dispatch July 18, 2017

A gynaecologist/obstetrician, Dr. Nathaniel Adewole, has urged women with B-negative blood, who have had miscarriage before, to always take Rhogam, a drug, during subsequent pregnancies before delivery. Adewole told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that taking the medicine, a special immune globulins, could help prevent rhesus incompatibility in mothers who are negative

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Minister of Health suspends more NHIS officers

Daily Dispatch July 17, 2017

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole has approved the suspension of more top officials of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to pave way for thorough investigation. Boade Akinola, Director, Media and Public Relations of the ministry made this known in a statement in Abuja on Monday. The minister had earlier suspended the Executive […]

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Alcohol causes mental disorders in young people

Daily Dispatch July 17, 2017

The excessive consumption of alcohol beverages left more than 2,014 young people with mental disorders in Maputo, Mozambique. Mozambique’s Office of Prevention and Combat Against Drugs (GPCD) said the young people are between the ages of 16 and 25. GPCD director Sara Jafete is quoted by state-controlled as saying that the group affected includes students, […]

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50 % of foreign-trained Nigerian doctors fail practice test

Daily Dispatch July 16, 2017

More than half of the foreign-trained doctors and dentists failed examinations to secure practice licence of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, this year. A total 334 doctors and seven dentists who graduated from medical colleges outside Nigeria sat for the assessment this year, Daily Trust on Sunday gathered. Only 160 doctors and four […]