HEALTH

Incredible: US surgeons transplant pig’s heart into human, break world record

Daily Dispatch January 11, 2022

United States surgeons have broken a world record as they transplanted the heart of a pig into a dying patient for the very first time in the world. The operation, which took about nine hours to complete, was conducted on a 57-year-old man, David Bennett, at the University of Maryland Medical

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Greece donates J&J COVID-19 vaccines to Nigeria

Daily Dispatch January 10, 2022

Greece has donated about one million doses of the Johnson and Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine to Nigeria as the Federal Government moves to ensure more citizens are vaccinated against the disease. A delegation from the European country led by its Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikolaos Dendias, announced the donation of the vaccines in Abuja on […]

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UK identifies rare case of avian flu in Human

Daily Dispatch January 6, 2022

Health officials in Britain said Thursday they had identified a rare case of avian flu in a person, as the country battles its largest-ever outbreak of the virus among birds. Transmission of avian flu from bird to human is very rare and has previously only occurred a small number of times in Britain, the UK Health […]

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France detects new COVID-19 variant IHU

Daily Dispatch January 5, 2022

While the world is grappling with the highly infectious Omicron, strain of Covid, scientists in France have identified a potentially worrying new variant, which has 46 mutations. Named IHU, the new B.1.640.2 variant has so far infected 12 people living in southeastern France, according to independent.co.uk. The first case was linked to a person with a […]

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Researchers get N36m grant to investigate preponderance of kidney diseases in Hadejia Valley

Daily Dispatch December 28, 2021

A team of researchers at the Federal University, Duste, has gotten a N36-million research grant to investigate rampant cases of kidney diseases at Hadejia Valley. Hadejia Valley stretches from Zakirai in Kano State to Nguru and Gashua in Yobe. It has the highest rate of kidney diseases in Nigeria. The university’s Chief Information Officer, Alhaji […]

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Doctors now to receive N40, 000 as hazard allowance

Daily Dispatch December 25, 2021

The Federal Government has increased the hazard allowance for medical doctors and health workers in the country. It was gathered that while the government increased the allowance for doctors from N5,000 to between N32,000 and N40,000; other health workers like nurses, laboratory workers among others had theirs reviewed to between N15,000 and N34,000. This was contained