[ad_1] Lara Adejoro No fewer than 1,084 lives were lost to Lassa fever, cholera, measles, meningitis, mpox, and yellow fever in Nigeria in 2022. The infections also resulted in 20,375 confirmed cases. This is according to an analysis of disease situation reports obtained from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. The PUNCH, however,…
[ad_1] A corpse has reportedly missed at the mortuary of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State, throwing the family members who had prepared for burial, into disbelief. It was gathered that the family members had on Friday visited the hospital to retrieve corpse of a woman deposited at the facility over…
[ad_1] The Ghana Health Service (GHS) over the weekend organised a health walk to sensitise the public to the prevalence of some Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in the country. The health walk, themed: ‘Act now, Act together. Invest in neglected tropical diseases’, started at the Health Promotional Division at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and…
[ad_1] Manufacturing Boeing’s 747, the original jumbo jet, prepares for final send-off Monday January 30 2023 A Lufthansa Boeing 747 is pictured overhead at the airport in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany on August 1, 2022. FILE PHOTO | AFP Boeing’s 747, the original and arguably most aesthetic “Jumbo Jet”, revolutionized air travel only to…
[ad_1] Peter Dada PETER DADA writes on the worsening cases of Lassa fever in Ondo State, which experts attribute to self-medication and delayed treatments among other factors Many reports show that Lassa fever is a viral disease that has neither a cure nor a vaccine to immunise people against it, as it does for COVID-19 and…
[ad_1] Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State on Sunday hinted that he and his Ebonyi State, David Umahi, were working assiduously to end hostilities between communities at the borderline of both states. Ortom dropped the hint during the Thanksgiving Mass for the official commissioning of a Catholic Parish House built at Holy Cross Parish, Ogbolokuta,…
[ad_1] Ghana’s record in the delivery of social and economic rights and advancements in civil and political rights are strong indicators of the nation’s good human rights record, the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame has stated. He was speaking at the Fourth Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United…
[ad_1] Sodiq Ojurongbe A yet-to-be-identified female corpse slated for burial on Saturday has gone missing from the morgue of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State. A hospital source said the drama started on Friday when the family of the deceased came to the hospital to take the body for burial only for…
[ad_1] The death recorded from Lassa fever in Edo State has risen to 13, as confirmed cases climbed to 115 since the outbreak of the disease in the state. The State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akoria Obehi, who disclosed this to journalists in Benin over the weekend said the fatality figures from Lassa fever have…
[ad_1] The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has enjoined the Federal Ministry of Health to expedite action on the ‘one-for-one policy’ on the replacement of exited doctors and clinical staff to reduce the manpower shortage as a result of brain drain in the country. The association made the call in a communique signed by…
