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Healthcare: Lagos to build three new general hospitals

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Friday, April 21, 2017 said plans were underway to begin construction of three new modern General Hospitals...

admin - April 21, 2017

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Meningitis kills 10 in Sokoto

Meningitis has killed no fewer than 10 persons in Shagari Local Government Area (LGA) of Sokoto State in the last few weeks, its Chairman,...

admin - April 18, 2017

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World Malaria Day: Researcher suggests ways to improve diagnosis of ailment

A medical researcher, Dr. Bamidele Iwalokun, has called on government authorities to increase the coverage of Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) by 80 per cent...

Michael Simire - April 17, 2017

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Meningitis: 33 dead in Niger, Sokoto to immunise 2m, WHO provides vaccine

Thirty-three people have died from the Cerebrol Spinal Meningitis in Niger State out of the 116 suspected cases recorded, an official disclosed to the...

admin - April 14, 2017

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Meningitis kills six, 24 hospitalised in Katsina

Funtua Local Government Council in Katsina State, northern Nigeria, on Thursday, April 13, 2017 confirmed the death of six persons and the hospitalisation 24...

admin - April 14, 2017

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Lagos State University surgeons perform first local open-heart surgery

The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) in Ikeja has said that its indigenous cardiac surgery team performed its first open-heart surgery on a...

admin - April 13, 2017

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Shell trains medical workers in emergency care

Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) has facilitated the training of medical workers from hospitals in Anambra State on emergency resuscitation, delivering a...

admin - April 12, 2017

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Volcanic soils, not worms, causing elephantiasis in Uganda, says study

A puzzling surge in western Uganda patients diagnosed with a painful, disfiguring skin condition known as elephantiasis was caused not by the parasitic worms...

admin - April 10, 2017

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