Tag: Hospitals
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Just in: You can now treat gunshot victims without police clearance- FG orders hospitals
The Federal Government has ordered all public and private healthcare facilities nationwide to attend to gunshot victims without requiring police clearance. This was outlined in a statement from the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, shared on its official X handle. Signed by Patricia Deworitshe, the Director of Information, the statement highlighted concerns about the…
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Jos School Tragedy: 81 victims discharged from hospitals
No fewer than 81 victims of the school building collapse in Jos, have been discharged from the various hospitals they were admitted to. The Saints Academy, a secondary and primary school in Jos, collapsed on Friday, while students were writing their third term examination.
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Sudanese struggle with medical meltdown as Doctors flee, hospitals closed
Hospitals across Sudan have been bombed, looted and occupied by armed factions since fighting broke out more than two months ago between the Sudanese military and the Rapid Support Forces, RSF, a paramilitary group. As a result, millions of civilians are being denied vital healthcare.
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IGP orders water-tight security around schools, hospitals across Nigeria
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the deployment of water-tight security arrangements to cover all schools, hospitals, health workers, and critical national infrastructures around the country.
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Crisis: Plateau doctors raise alarm, say hospitals, mortuaries overwhelmed with injured, corpses
Plateau branch of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) on Thursday raised the alarm over the surging corpses in mortuaries and injured in hospitals across the state. It said it is saddened and disillusioned by the persistent and vicious killings in the State, pointing out they were exerting great toll on the physical and psychological wellbeing…
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Lagos shuts 143 hospitals for quackery
The Lagos State Government has shut down 143 hospitals and other health facilities across the state for quackery and engaging in substandard practices. Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi disclosed this on Tuesday at a ministerial briefing to mark the second year of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in office held in Ikeja, Lagos. According to him,…
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Atiku to Buhari: Use $1.5bn Refinery Rehabilitation Fund To Build Hospitals
Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar has advised the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government to, instead, use the $1.5bn proposed for the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery to build hospitals for Nigerians. “Rather than spend $1.5 billion on a loss-making refinery, would it not make better economic sense, as well as ensure social justice,…
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Detention of patients in hospitals, By Sonnie Ekwowusi
By Sonnie Ekwowusi Last week I found myself in a certain big hospital in Lagos (name withheld) trying to assist a terminally-ill patient who had been detained by the hospital for non-payment of hospital bills. That was not the first time I was encountering such a patient being maltreated by a hospital. Over…
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Covid-19 surge: FG to deploy 30 minutes COVID-19 test kits in hospitals
Nigerians will soon have the opportunity of knowing their status within 30 minutes of undergoing COVID-19 test, Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said yesterday. The agency said Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) kits will be deployed in general and tertiary hospitals. It said the decision was predicated on the success recorded in using RDTs to…
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Birth certificates issued by LGs, hospitals not acceptable for official use – NPC
The National Population Commission (NPC) has said that all birth certificates issued by local governments and hospitals are not acceptable for official purposes in the country. According to the Commission, only birth certificates issued by NPC is acceptable as the commission is the only agency legally authorised to issue such documents in the country. The…