Tag: Health
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Primary health care centres deplorable nationwide -Experts, Nigerians cry out
Nigerians have lamented the spate of sharp practices and the dilapidated state of the Primary Healthcare Centre (PHCs) nationwide. Participants during an anti-corruption radio programme, PUBLIC CONSCIENCE, produced by PRIMORG, made known their frustrations on Wednesday in Abuja. They noted that besides poor management ravaging PHCs in the country, corruption, which comes in the form…
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Health misinformation: YouTube begins verifying videos by UK doctors
YouTube has launched a verification system for UK-based doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals to help Britons dodge medical misinformation online. UK-based users accounted for more than two billion
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South Africa: Uncertainty over Zulu King’s health as spokesman denies reports
Uncertainty reigned on Sunday over the health of South Africa’s Zulu king, the head of the country’s most influential traditional monarchy, with his spokesman denying reports he had been hospitalised. Misuzulu Zulu, 48, ascended the throne last year after the death of his father, Goodwill Zwelithini, amid a bitter feud over the royal succession. Overnight…
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Why no woman should die from Cervical Cancer
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer affecting women in Nigeria and the fourth most common cancer among women globally, according to World Health Organisation (WHO). Current estimates for Nigeria in 2023 by the Human Papillomavirus
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Bauchi govt hails Journalists reporting health for development
…, praises USAID-IHP for building capacity From Shola Kanji, Bauchi Journalists committed to health reportage in Bauchi state under a CSO known as Journalists for Public Health and Development Initiative (J4PD) have been commended for providing Indepth reportage of the health sector of the state. Such reportage is said to have created an enabling environment…
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Medical racism: Canada-based Nigerian nurse narrates how negligence led to son’s death
A Canada-based Nigerian nurse Birgit Uwaila Umaigba, is mourning the loss of her son David, whose death was due to the negligence of healthcare givers in an Ontario hospital. Umaigba said on her birthday, at only 18 weeks of her pregnancy journey, her water broke prematurely (also known as the prelabour rupture of membranes) and…
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IBB’s health: No cause for alarm – Aide
Former military President, retired Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) has travelled to Germany for medical check-up. Alhaji Mahmud Abdullahi, media aide and close family confidant disclosed this in Minna. According to Abdullahi, he said; “I did not discuss with Oga before he left Nigeria and where he had travelled to and why. “I know he…
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Flights cancelled in China as Covid cases continue to surge
Many airports across China have cancelled the majority of their flights due to a surge in COVID-19 cases in the country. China’s state newspaper, Global Times, reported on Thursday.
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Fani-Kayode clears air on Tinubu’s health challenge
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) says Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the party’s presidential candidate, has no major health challenge, as being speculated in the media. Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, Director Special Media Projects and New Media of the Council said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
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Chefs: Behind healthy food choices, promoting healthy children
“In lack or in excess, problems of nutrition always encompass inappropriate choices and practices and nutrition education is an important step in empowering the consumer to make healthy food choices,” says the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). A core of those who help in making healthy food choices are the chefs; trained professional cooks and…