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UNFPA supports treatment of 675 VVF survivors in Borno

Daily Dispatch December 10, 2021

The United Nations Fund for Population Activities supported the treatment of 675 vesicovaginal fistula patients in Borno in the last four months, the Humanitarian Coordinator/Head of Maiduguri Office, Macauley Sabum, said. Sabum made this known in Maiduguri on Thursday at the graduation and

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U.S. donates 2.5 million doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines to Nigeria

Daily Dispatch December 9, 2021

The United States has announced the donation of 2.5 million Pfizer vaccine doses to Nigeria. This was disclosed in a statement by the U.S Embassy on Thursday. According to the statement, the vaccine doses arrived in Abuja this week and were received by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency and taken to cold storage […]

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N150b Afrexim Bank hospital to stem N3.5 trillion annual medical tourism expenditure out of Africa, says Oramah

Daily Dispatch December 7, 2021

President of Afreximbank, Prof. Benedict Oramah, has said that the the 500-bed and estimated 300 million US dollar- African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE), which groundbreaking was done in Abuja on Tuesday, was conceived to promote intra-African medical tourism and reduce the outflow of over 7 billion US dollars annually in out-bound medical tourism. Oramah […]

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ICPC begins probe of N49.4b Covid-19 grants to hospitals

Daily Dispatch December 7, 2021

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has launched a probe into COVID-19 intervention funds given to 52 Federal Teaching Hospital and Federal Medical Centres to build build or set up molecular laboratories, Intensive Care Units, Isolation centres and Protdctive Personal Equipment. The perceived mismanagement of the N950m disbursed

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Nigeria accounts for 27% of global malaria deaths in 2020 – WHO

Daily Dispatch December 7, 2021

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 29 of the 85 countries that were malaria-endemic accounted for about 96% of malaria cases and deaths globally while Nigeria accounted for 27% of deaths. The organisation disclosed this in its 2020 World Malaria report released on Monday. “About 96% of malaria deaths globally were in 29 countries. Six […]

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Omicron: FG expresses disappointment over UK govt’s red listing of Nigeria

Daily Dispatch December 6, 2021

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has expressed disappointment over the United Kingdom government’s placement of Nigeria on its red list following the detection of the COVID-19 Omicron variant.  “We were not very happy when six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa were placed on a red list and the WHO also advised against putting each […]