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Nigeria ranks 4th among 10 successful responses to COVID-19 – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday ranked Nigeria’s COVID-19 response as the fourth-best in the world.
This was confirmed by WHO Country Representative, Dr...
FMC Yola enlists interns, corps members as resident doctors strike bites...
As physicians across several States joined the nationwide strike embarked by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), the management of Federal Medical Centre,...
COVID-19: Artesunate, two new candidate drugs undergoing trials, says WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday says three new candidate drugs are being tested in the latest phase of global Solidarity clinical trials...
Lagos records 42 COVID-19 deaths within eight days
Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, says 42 persons have died from COVID-19 related complications in the state between Aug. 1 and...
Nine Nigerians die every hour of Malaria, FG laments
The Federal Government while lamenting the increasing rates of avoidable deaths has disclosed that nine persons die of malaria every hour in Nigeria.
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We’ve only received two months salaries, Striking doctors urge Akeredolu to...
The striking members of the Association of Resident Doctors in Ondo State have appealed to the Rotimi Akeredolu-led government to consent to their demands,...
Resident doctors in Rivers State end strike
Rivers State University Teaching Hospital resident doctors have called off their one-week-old strike.
Chairman of the association at the hospital Dr. George Ela, disclosed this...
Cholera outbreak claims 12 lives in Niger Republic
Niger health minister, Idi Illiassou Mainassara, on Monday said the cholera outbreak in the southern part of the State has killed 12 people and...
Tribunal suspends 12 doctors, bars three others from practising medicine
The Medical and Dental Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal on Thursday announced that it has suspended 12 doctors from practising their profession in Nigeria.
This is just...
Mothers diagnosed with COVID-19 can still breastfeed – Expert
A pediatrician, Dr. Rose Ameh, says breastfeeding mothers with the COVID-19 virus can still breastfeed their babies because breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact is beneficial...
