Category: Health
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Pharmacists Must Act Against Antibiotic Resistance– Adefurin
By Our Correspondent Pharmacists have been urged to take a proactive stance against the growing threat of antibiotic resistance. This was emphasised by Dr Taiwo Adefurin during his keynote address at the 2024 Pharmacy Week in Akure, Ondo State. Dr Adefurin highlighted the importance of education and advocacy in tackling this global health crisis, noting…
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Certificate verification: Nigerian nurses in UK, US forced to return home
The sudden deactivation of the verification portal by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria in February has plunged countless Nigerian nurses and midwives working abroad into turmoil. Currently, healthcare workers are encountering hurdles in renewing their licences and meeting the regulatory requirements set by international bodies. Already, some nurses without the necessary verification from…
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Tinubu approves policy to reverse health worker migration, address challenges
President Bola Tinubu has approved the National Policy on Health Workforce Migration to address the challenges facing Nigeria’s health human resources. The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof Muhammad Pate, disclosed this on his X handle on Monday. Pate said the policy is more than just a response to the ongoing exodus of…
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STRANGE: Woman born with male, female sex organs fathers two children
Heartbroken after two failed relationships with men, 30-year-old Queen Obukoko, born with male and female sex organs, tells Godfrey George how she impregnated two women with her dominant male organ, the stigma associated with being intersex, and the dream to one day get married to a man she loves after undergoing a gender reassignment surgery…
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Covid-19 is still killing around 1,700 people a week, says WHO
Covid-19 is still killing around 1,700 people a week around the world, the World Health Organisation said Thursday, as it urged at-risk populations to keep up with their vaccinations against the disease. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sounded a warning on declining vaccine coverage. Despite the continued death toll, “data show that vaccine coverage has…
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Cleric recommends two years exclusive breastfeeding for babies
An Islamic cleric, Tajudeen Adebayo, on Tuesday, advised mothers to make up their minds to breastfeed their babies exclusively, describing it as the best gift a mother could give to her baby. Mr Adebayo, the chief imam of the central mosque in Falomo, Lagos, also urged breastfeeding for up to two years. He said this…
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How tattoos can lead to blood cancers – Experts give details
Oncologists and Haematologists have cautioned Nigerians against the new trend of getting tattoos, warning that the art, which is a type of body modification has been linked to an increased risk of blood cancers, particularly lymphoma – cancer of the blood. The experts, who spoke exclusively with PUNCH Healthwise explained that certain chemicals in tattoo…
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Cholera: 25 cases recorded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi disclosed that 25 cases of severe gastroenteritis confirmed to be caused by Cholera were reported at Kirikiri Correctional Centre. This was made known in a press statement on Sunday signed by the State Ministry of Health’s Director of Public Affairs, Tunbosun Ogunbanwo. Abayomi, however, stated that…
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OAUTH Resident Doctors Lament Poor Conditions, Snake Invasion
The Association of Resident Doctors, Obafemi Awolowo Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has lamented snake invasion of the hospital and its annex in Ilesa, decrying poor working conditions in the two facilities. The doctors disclosed this in a communique issued in Osogbo, the state capital, on Thursday, at the end of an emergency congress of…
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Cholera: Nigeria records 54 deaths, 1,579 cases in 32 states – NCDC
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, has announced an increase in the death toll and spread of cholera across 32 states and 115 Local Government Areas, LGAs, of the Federation. In an update on Wednesday, the Deputy Director of Surveillance of the NCDC, and National Incident Manager for the Centre, Dr. Muntari…