The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced that 404 additional COVID-19 infections and zero COVID-19 related deaths were registered in Nigeria on July 27, 2021. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday morning. Reports…
With more states getting hit by cholera outbreak, a Medical Imaging Scientist, Dr Livinus Abonyi, has counseled women to pay special attention to their kitchens, toilets and surroundings. Abonyi, a lecturer in the Department of Medical Radiography, Faculty of Clinical…
No fewer than 1,000 persons have been inoculated against cholera in Bauchi metropolis in the ongoing mass immunisation exercise in the state. Reports state that the Bauchi State Government on July 24 distributed over 1.5 million doses of cholera vaccines…
Nigeria has so far recorded 10 new cases of the Delta COVID-19 variant. The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu disclosed this at the ministerial briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja, Reports said that the Delta variant…
The District Head of Bauchi metropolis, Alhaji Nura Jumba has called on the state government to intensify efforts at evacuating waste, to avert outbreaks of waterborne diseases in the state. In an interview with the Newsmen on Monday, in Bauchi,…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday donated 1.5 million dosage of cholera vaccine to Bauchi State. Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, the Executive Chairman, State Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA), disclosed this at the kick-off of the vaccination exercise in…
The Kogi Government on Thursday said it had upgraded the Zonal Hospital, Idah, to a specialist facility to serve as a renal dialysis centre. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr Saka Audu, said in Lokoja that the upgraded hospital would…
The outbreak of Cholera has claimed no fewer than 33 persons in both Yobe and Jigawa states. In Yobe State, three deaths have been recorded with two others hospitalised at Girgir Community in Jakusko Local Government Area of the state.…
A medical expert, Prof. Caleb Mpyet, has decried the dearth of ophthalmologists in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa. Mpyet, of Department of Ophthalmology, College of Health Sciences, University of Jos, said this while delivering the 97th inaugural lecture series of the university…
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has intensified community sensitisation on cholera and severe diarrhoea diseases outbreak, as death toll rises from 54 to 60. The FCT Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Aliyu, made the disclosure at the continuation of…
