Tag: Patients
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Flood: We can’t admit fresh patients as our medical machines were submerged-UMTH CMD laments
The management of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital has halted admission of fresh patients into the hospital because of the fear of disease outbreak following the flooding incident that ravaged the metropolis this week. Recall that hundreds of residents were trapped as a devastating flood hit Maiduguri and other surrounding communities early on Tuesday.…
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Speaker Abbas condemns abduction of patients, nurses in Kaduna hospital
The Speaker of the House of Representatives Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, has condemned the attack on a hospital, and the abduction of workers and patients by bandits in Birnin Gwari, Kaduna State. On Monday, bandits reportedly invaded the Primary Healthcare Centre at Layin Dan Auta village in Kuyello Ward, Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State,…
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Naira scarcity: Zulum directs Govt hospitals to give patients free drugs
Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno has directed the release of drugs worth N300 million and other medical supplies to government hospitals for free distribution to patients most of whom were facing difficulties in making payments due to scarcity of new and old naira notes. The Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Prof. Mohammed Arab, made…
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CMD urges anguished relatives of patients to stop attacking doctors
Prof. Obinna Onodugo, Chief Medical Director of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, has urged patients’ relatives to stop harassing and visiting violence on doctors. He spoke with newsmen in Enugu on Friday on the side-line of the 46th General and Scientific Meeting of the Nigerian chapter of the West African College of Physicians.…
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Patients groan at UBTH as ARD’s strike enters 2nd day
Patients at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) on Friday groaned as they were abandoned by striking resident doctors in the hospital. A check by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) showed that patients in critical conditions had to resort to alternative helps. Mr Charles Benjamin, son to one of the patients at the…
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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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Alarming: 20 Nigerian doctors die in one week from COVID19 infection
No fewer than 20 Nigerian medical doctors have died in the last one week from COVID-19 infection because infected patients did not disclose their status. Dr Job Enema Amodu, Chairman of the Nigeria Medical Association at a briefing in Abuja. He said the fatalities were recorded all over the country. In December, a total of…
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UCH Ibadan lost 18 patients to COVID-19
The Chief Medical Director, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan Prof. Jesse Otegbayo has explained why the hospital lost 18 persons out of the 159 COVID-19 patients it has treated so far. Otegbayo spoke on Friday in Ibadan on the sidelines of the inauguration ceremony of the Josephus Foundation-aided new Infectious Disease Centre at UCH. According…
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COVID-19 or not, stop rejecting patients, PTF warns hospitals
The Director-General of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, on Friday said that Nigerians must learn to live with the Covid-19 pandemic for at least one year. Speaking at the media briefing by the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 in Abuja, Ihekweazu said it is a reality our hospitals must live…
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COVID-19: Nigeria’s discharged patients surpass 9,000
Over 9,000 coronavirus patients have been discharged in Nigeria, the country’s Centre for the Disease Control has stated. This was as the Centre announced that total infections confirmed in Nigeria reached 24,567 including 565 associated deaths. The recoveries were recorded in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, as well as 34 states…