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World Health Day: WHO says depression affects 322m people worldwide

Daily Dispatch April 6, 2017

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says depression as the leading cause of disability worldwide is affecting about 322 million people. The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, said this in a statement to mark this year’s World Health Day in Abuja on Thursday. Moeti said in

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Kogi at risk of meningitis – NMA

Daily Dispatch April 6, 2017

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has raised alarm over possible outbreak of) in Kogi, urging the state government and relevant stakeholders to be proactive. The state Acting Chairman of NMA, Dr Godwin Tijani, spoke in Lokoja on Thursday, while reacting to the recent reported cases of meningitis in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Dr Lawal […]

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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 of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday. He explained […]

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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 […]