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Medical students should sign five-year bond to tame medical exodus – VC

Daily Dispatch October 20, 2023

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED), Ondo, Prof. Adesegun Fatusi, has advised Nigerian government that medical students in government-owned institutions be made to sign a bond to serve the country over a period of five years before they can go abroad after

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US reviews strategy to end HIV threat in 2030

Daily Dispatch October 19, 2023

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC) has reviewed its efforts to help Nigeria end HIV as a public health threat by 2030 and introduced its plans for an integrated health services delivery initiative. This was done during its 3rd Biannual Program Performance Review and Stakeholder Engagement Meeting from October 17-19. […]

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Insecurity: Private nurses cries to government for help

Daily Dispatch October 19, 2023

The National President, Association of General Private Nursing Practitioners of Nigeria, Balogun Ajiboye, has said that the spate of insecurity across the country remains a threat to its members. Ajiboye stated this on Tuesday at the 13th Annual National Scientific Conference of the association, in Kaduna State, with the theme, ‘Nursing and Healthcare Space: Strengthening

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Zulum visits Banki, orders rehabilitation of Tarmuwa village, health centre

Daily Dispatch October 18, 2023

… Inspects market, school projects… Orders completion of houses for teachers Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has directed for the complete rehabilitation of Tarmuwa village and a comprehensive health center owned by the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital in Banki town of Bama Local Government Council.  Zulum gave the directive on Tuesday during a

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Breaking: NAFDAC Approves Vaccine For Treating Cancer

Daily Dispatch October 18, 2023

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has approved the use of the Gardasil vaccine as a single dose in the routine immunization against cervical cancer. In a joint statement by NAFDAC and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), the Director General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said NPHCDA […]

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Environment Minister urges Nigerians to continue the culture of handwashing

Daily Dispatch October 16, 2023

The Minister of State for Environment, Dr. Iziaq Salako has advised Nigerians to continue to embrace the culture of hand washing, noting that washing of hands with soap under running water chases many diseases faraway. The Minister gave the advised on Monday at the Federal Government Boys College, Wuye – Abuja during the commemoration of […]