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Meningitis: UNICEF Donates Drugs to Abuja

Daily Dispatch April 6, 2017

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has donated 1,000 doses of drugs to FCT Primary Health Care Development Board for the treatment of Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) in Abuja. The Executive Secretary of the Board, Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency

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Meningitis: Katsina begins vaccination Thursday

Daily Dispatch April 5, 2017

Katsina State will tomorrow start mass vaccination against cerebrospinal meningitis, as the state Primary Health Care Development Agency has confirmed it received 50,000 doses of vaccines out of the 500,000  it requested. The Executive Chairman of the agency Dr Maawuya Aliu in a chat with Daily Trust said the exercise will commence in the key […]

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13 people died of HPV at LUTH

Daily Dispatch April 5, 2017

No fewer than thirteen persons have died from Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital. Source close to the hospital informed Daily Dispatch that  senior Doctor (Name Undisclosed) from the Lagos University Teaching Hospital was able to detect cause of the the 13 people. According to our source, several tests were […]

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No more dialysis, Scientists Have Developed A Bionic Kidney!

Daily Dispatch April 4, 2017

Natural remedies are indeed very powerful, but there are times when we have to turn to modern technology. Dialysis patients can’t live without the treatment, but their suffering is enormous. Many of them must wait for years to get a kidney transplant and live normally, with seemingly no other solution on the horizon. However, there’s […]

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Saraki Assures FG of Senate’s Support At Eradicating Menigitis

Daily Dispatch April 4, 2017

The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has assured the Federal Government and the Ministry of Health of the Senate’s commitment to supporting all efforts to put an end to the outbreak of meningitis in the country. The outbreak has claimed the lives of up to 328 people. In a series of tweets […]

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We Don’t Have Drugs For Meningitis ‘C’-FG…..says it needs $1.1bn to vaccinate 22million people

Daily Dispatch April 3, 2017

The Federal Government has said the Meningitis ‘C’ currently ravaging in the country is strange, even as it said the drugs are not available. Government also disclosed that Nigeria would need about $1.1billion for the vaccination of 22million persons in the five states affected by the Meningitis ‘C’. The Chief Executive Officer/National Coordinator, Nigeria Centre […]