HEALTH

OGUN PARTNERS ALBINO FOUNDATION TO FIGHT STIGMATIZATION

Daily Dispatch May 13, 2017

‎Ogun State Government has disclosed its readiness to partner with Albino Foundation, as a way to fight thescourge of skin cancer among Albinos in the state and equally eradicate the ignorance about myth behind albinism. The  Deputy Governor Mrs Yetunde Onanuga made this known in her speech at

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Ebola: Nigeria steps up surveillance at airports

Daily Dispatch May 13, 2017

The management of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has assured Nigerians of adequate surveillance at the nation’s airports following the outbreak of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, saying that at least one person […]

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Traditional ruler appeals to government for CSM vaccine

Daily Dispatch May 9, 2017

Malam Fajemi Jariyi, the traditional ruler of Kpaduma community, Asokoro Extension, FCT has called on the government to make cerebrospinal meningitis vaccine available in the community to avoid the spread of the disease. Jariyi made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja. He stressed the need […]

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FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTRE ‘DETAINED’ PATIENT OVER N150,000 OUTSTANDING MEDICAL BILL

Daily Dispatch May 8, 2017

The authority of Federal Medical Centre(FMC),Idi-Aba,Abeokuta,Ogun State Capital may have ‘detained’ a 17 year old patient for inability of family to offset medical bill of N150,000. ‎The  patient,Ganiyu Jinadu was admitted in the hospital, following  severed burn injury sustained in a gas explosion at a fuel station  in Abeokuta,about four months ago. The

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WHO deploys 190 personnel to fight meningitis in Sokoto

Daily Dispatch May 4, 2017

The World Health Organisation said it had deployed 190 Polio Eradication Initiative officers to Sokoto State to support the government’s fight against Cerebro Spinal Meningitis. WHO Country Representative to Nigeria, Dr. Wondimagegnehu Alemu, said this in Abuja on Thursday. Alemu said PEI officers, drawn from the Nigerian country office and field offices, would be working

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[BREAKING] Fresh outbreak of meningitis kills 8 in Katsina

Daily Dispatch May 4, 2017

Cerebro Spinal Meningitis has killed not less than eight people at Tsabu village in Mai’adua Local Government Area of Katsina State, an official has said. The Director of Primary Health Care in the LGA, Nasiru Mani, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Mai’adua today (Thursday). Mani said the meningitis outbreak was discovered in […]