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NAPTIP, NGO partner on rehabilitation, reintegration of victims

Daily Dispatch February 9, 2022

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), is partnering with Vanguard Against Drug Abuse (VGADA) on the rehabilitation of victims of trafficking and drug abuse. NAPTIP’s Director-General, Dr Fatima Waziri-Azi, said this when she visited the VGADA rehabilitation

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Resident doctors commends Ogun state govt. for implementing federal salary scale

Daily Dispatch February 9, 2022

Resident Doctors in Ogun State have commended the government for stabiliising the health sector, particularly for implementing the Federal salary scale of its members and ensuring medical Doctors’ welfare and placements. The Doctors, under the aegis of Association of Resident Doctors, Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH) chapter, Sagamu, led by its

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Donors agency seeks health project sustainability

Daily Dispatch February 9, 2022

A call has gone to  Government at all levels  to sustain donors’ supported health projects to enable more  residents  access efficient health care services. This indication emerged in Abeokuta during a close-out meeting organized by Pathfinder International, Nigeria, for Family Health Initiative  Ogun (FAHIO), a Non-governmental advocacy

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Photos: NAPTIP DG, Dr. Fatima Waziri-Azi, Dr. Idumu Foluso SA to President of FRN visit VGADA Detox Centre, Abuja

Daily Dispatch February 8, 2022

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Nigeria has only 75 cardio-thoracic surgeons to 200 million population

Daily Dispatch February 8, 2022

Nigeria has only 75 cardio-thoracic surgeons to a population of about 200 million people. Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune in Ilorin on Tuesday, Professor of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Peter Adeoye, decried paucity of cardio-thoracic surgeons in Nigeria. Prof Adeoye revealed that only two of such surgeons

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President tests positive for COVID-19

Daily Dispatch February 7, 2022

Xiomara Castro, who last month became the first woman to win the presidency of Honduras, said Sunday that she was infected with Covid-19 but will continue working remotely. “The result of the PCR (test) yesterday (Saturday) was negative, today’s is positive,” the 62-year-old president, who replaced Juan Orlando Hernandez, announced on her Twitter account. “According to