[ad_1] (Xinhua) 13:06, January 20, 2023 LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) — Three years of COVID-19 have shown how clumsy communication, poor coordination and rampant political division can harm public health. The need to repair these divisions is especially acute, a recent report by the American magazine Vanity Fair has said. As COVID-19 enters its…
[ad_1] Lara Adejoro …Kano, Osun, Yobe record cases The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has said it has responded to reports of diphtheria cases in Lagos and Kano states and is monitoring the situation in Osun and Yobe States where cases are now being picked up. The NCDC disclosed this in a public…
[ad_1] From Fred Ezeh, Abuja Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed outbreak of diphtheria cases in Lagos and Kano States, and is also monitoring the situation in Osun and Yobe States where cases are being picked up. NCDC explained that diphtheria is a serious bacterial infection caused by the bacterium called Corynebacterium species…
[ad_1] The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has called on health facilities across the country to domesticate the Patient’s Bill of Rights (PBOR). The Executive Vice Chairman of FCCPC, Babatunde Irukera, made the call yesterday while unveiling the PBOR at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Jabi, Abuja. The PBOR is a federal government…
[ad_1] The long queues outside hot pot and barbeque restaurants, an approaching peak season for cinemas, and an expected surge in the number of Chinese outbound tourists…vital and dynamic images of China have been vividly reported by foreign media recently after the country optimized its COVID-19 response. Paper-cutting artist Ge Ying makes rabbit-themed paper cuttings…
[ad_1] A renowned business mogul and a philanthropist in Zaria, Kaduna State, Alhaji Usman Bako Zuntu, is dead. A family source said Zuntu died at the age of 84, after protracted illness at Al-madina Hospital, GRA, Zaria in the early hours of Friday. Born in 1939 in Zuntu, Kubau Local Government Area of Kaduna State,…
[ad_1] A Group of Ghanaian Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) has released a statement calling on international lenders to cancel enough of Ghana’s debt to make it sustainable. The CSOs in a statement copied to the Ghana News Agency called on Ghana to be supported by the G20, and UK, to stay in default on all…
[ad_1] The Paediatric Association of Nigeria says the nation is losing its medical personnel to better organised global settings, leaving the remaining healthcare workers in government-owned hospitals to be overstretched. The National President of PAN, Dr. Olufemi Ogunrinde, said this at the opening ceremony of the association’s four-day annual general meeting and scientific conference on…
[ad_1] At least 25 people have been reported dead while others were hospitalized after an outbreak of diphtheria infection hit some communities in Kano state heightening panic among residents of the state. Daily Trust gathered that the outbreak started last week in Tudun Rubudi and Bare-Bari communities in Ungogo Local Government Area of the state,…
[ad_1] By Yi Xin (Xinhua) 13:12, January 18, 2023 BEIJING, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) — With the Chinese Lunar New Year around the corner, the hustle and bustle of crowds has returned to restaurants, hotels and shopping malls across China. People are nabbing tickets to join the Spring Festival travel rush. For many, a family reunion…
