Tag: Patient
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Drama as Aro psychiatric patients bite doctor, nurses during protest over ‘poor treatment’
Confusion at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, when patients in the hospital protested what they described as the ‘poor treatments’ they are subjected to by management of the facility. It was gathered that a psychiatric doctor, whose identity is yet-to-be ascertained, and three nurses escaped being killed by the protesting patients.…
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Medical doctor remanded in prison for allegedly raping a patient
An Ilorin Magistrates’Court on Thursday remanded a medical doctor, Ayodele Joseph, for allegedly raping a patient. The suspect was arraigned on two counts of act of gross indecency and rape contrary to sections 285 and 283 of the penal code.
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Patient treated for stroke dies from COVID-19 at FMC
The Federal Medical Centre Idi-Aba, Abeokuta has recorded two new cases of coronavirus. A 58-year-old patient (name withheld) also died of coronavirus-related complications in the hospital Head, Public Relations, and Information of the hospital, Segun Orisajo confirmed the incident. He said the man died on Friday of COVID-19 two days before the result of his…
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Kwara foils Covid-19 patients’ plot to escape from isolation centre
The Kwara Government’s intelligence network has uncovered plot by some COVID-19 patients to escape from the state isolation centre at early hour of Friday. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor and spokesman to the state COVID-19 Committee, Rafiu Ajakaye made this disclosure in a statement in Ilorin. Ajakaye said that the attempt was promptly…
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Enugu free of Coronavirus, last patient recovers, discharged
There is no more Coronavirus case in Enugu as the last patient has been discharged barely 24 hours after the first patient was released. The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Ikechukwu Obi made the disclosure in a statement on Thursday. The commissioner said that the patient had recovered and tested negative to the Coronavirus. The state…
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Doctor dies of coronavirus after treating infected patient in Lagos
A medical doctor who attempted to manage a Coronavirus patient at a private hospital has been struck dead by the virus. The doctor, 51, was the first health worker in Nigeria who died of Coronavirus after he contacted the deadly disease while managing a patient. He is the second medical doctor to have died of…
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Lagos discharges one more new Covid-19 patient
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said the state has discharged another patient of the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease after testing negative for the virus. Sanwo-Olu while disclosing this during a press briefing held at Lagos House Marina also confirmed that the total cases of the virus in the state has tallied 109 after confirming 11…
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BREAKING: Meet second patient, Adam Castillejo cured of HIV in London
A man from London has become the second person in the world to be cured of HIV, doctors say. Adam Castillejo is still free of the virus more than 30 months after stopping anti-retroviral therapy. He was not cured by the HIV drugs, however, but by a stem-cell treatment he received for a cancer he…
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Coronavirus patient has been moved to better facility now – Lagos govt
The Lagos State Government on Saturday said it had moved the coronavirus patient to a better facility where he would be comfortable. TheNewsGuru had reported earlier that the patient was very dismayed about where he was secluded and had threatened to flee. The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who made the latest…
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Just In: Nigeria’s first coronavirus patient visited Ogun State
The Italian confirmed to have been infected with Coronavirus had also visited Ewekoro in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State this week. But residents and visitors to the state have no reason to panic, the Commissioner for Health, Tomi Coker said on Friday morning. Coker disclosed that the Italian visited a giant manufacturing company(name…