A professor of Psychiatry, at the University of Benin, (UNIBEN) Kingsley Akhigbe, has advocated empathy and understanding for patients suffering from mental disorders. He also underscored the need to break the stigma associated with mental health issues. Professor Akhigbe, mental health practitioner at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, (UBTH) Benin City, Edo State, made…
Nigeria Hit by Dire Dearth of Doctors, Enabulele Laments
Says About 50, 000 Doctors in Active Practice Instead of WHO’s Recommended 250, 000 The President, World Medical Association, WMA, Osahon Enabulele, has painted a very disturbing picture of state of healthcare in Nigeria, observing that while doctor-to-patient ratio, by international standard, should be a doctor to about 600 patients, what entails is a doctor…
Diabetes Not Caused By Sugar, Can Be cured – Amukele
Renowned lifestyle medicine practitioner, Samuel Amukele, has said that contrary to common belief, diabetes is not caused by sugar. Amukele, who disclosed this in a lecture he delivered on natural medicine at the opening of the 2021 Correspondents’ Chapel Week of the NUJ in Port Harcourt on Monday, said diabetes can be cured within two…
Wike Says Rivers Can’t Provide Free Medicare, Lays Foundation For Renal Centre
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has said that harsh economic realities would not allow the state government to provide free medical services to people in the state. The governor, who was responding to an appeal by the management of the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital to consider paying the bills of indigent renal…
Over 38,500 Immunised in First Phase COVID-19 Vaccination in Edo
…As Second Dose Begins Next Tuesday Edo State Government on Friday said it had vaccinated over 38,500 persons for the first dose of phase one COVID-19 vaccinations, while the administration of the second dose of the vaccinations would commence Tuesday, June 01, 2021. Health Educator with the State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Irene Uabor, who…
“Cancer is curable” – Dr Chinedu Aruah
[responsivevoice] Today is 2021 World Cancer Day. Every February 4 since the year 2000, is set apart by the United Nations, UN to raise global awareness about cancer, improving education, and catalysing personal, collective, and government action. The global uniting initiative is led by the Union for International Cancer Control, UICC. “We are working together…
WHO Begins Probe of China over Origin of COVID-19
[responsivevoice] The World Health Organization, WHO, Friday, in Wuhan, started the probe of China on its alleged complicity in the origin of COVID-19. The WHO China mission completed the required two weeks quarantine in a Wuhan hotel Thursday and started its assignment Friday with a meeting with a group of Chinese scientists in Wuhan. They…
FG Welcomes New COVID-19 Research Group’s Drug Report
[responsivevoice] Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, Monday, welcomed the report of IVERCOVID Research Group, a team of home and overseas-based Nigerian professors and scientists investigating the efficacy of Ivermectin, a drug used in the treatment of river blindness, in the management of COVID-19 infection. The report is titled, “A randomized controlled trial for the repurposing…
NCDC Warns of Spread of Covid-19
[responsivevoice] The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC has warned of the consequences of Nigerians being indifferent to the consistent spread of covid-19 since December 2020. A statement by the agency has, therefore, put out an advisory on how to contain the spread. This is coming at a time states are experiencing an upsurge in…
COVID-19 Vaccine: Kano, Lagos, Katsina and Kaduna Top States’ Sharing List
[responsivevoice] A list on how the expected COVID-19 Vaccine would be distributed to states in Nigeria has been made public. On the list, Kano, Lagos, Katsina and Kaduna will receive the highest number of vaccines, in that order. Though each of the states will get less than 4,000 vaccines from the first batch, the federal…
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