The Management of the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, Abuja, has debunked reports that there is an outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease in its facility. The Public Relations Officer, Sani Suleiman, made this known in an interview on Sunday. Suleiman was reacting to social media reports on the memo issued by the hospital to […]
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The Federal Government has commenced discussions with the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors over the demands of the doctors. The Publicity Secretary of NARD, Dr. Yusuf Alfa, disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent. The resident doctors had on July 30, 2022, issued a two-week ultimatum to the Federal Government to implement all the […]
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The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors on Sunday said the Federal Government had yet to reach out to it for possible meeting over the two-week ultimatum the union declared following the failure of the government to implement the new hazard allowance rate proposed in December 2021. The association, however, expressed the hope that the government […]
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has confirmed 157 cases of monkeypox across 26 states in the country. The NCDC disclosed this in its latest monkeypox situation report for week 30. Monkeypox is a rare viral zoonotic infectious disease transmitted from animals to humans that occur sporadically, primarily in remote villages of Central and West […]
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COVID-19 infections have reportedly risen by 231.5 per cent within one month in the country. Epidemiological data obtained from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control showed that from May 28 to June 29, a total of 1,262 cases were reported. But from June 30 to August 1, the cases took a new surge as 4,183 […]
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