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The Senate has directed the Minister of Health, OSAGIE EHANIRE to put together a policy to compel all government hospitals to procure locally manufactured syringes. The Senate Committee on Health gave the Minister a six-week ultimatum to carry out the directive. The Committee gave the directive during an interactive meeting with local manufacturers of pharmaceutical […]
Amnesty International says Eritrean troops have killed three people and injured at least 19 others during an unprovoked attack on civilians in Ethiopia. Witnesses told Amnesty that the soldiers were passing through Adwa in the Tigray region when they suddenly opened fire on people near the town’s bus station. They said Eritrean soldiers were shooting […]
Denmark has ceased giving the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine amid concerns about rare cases of blood clots, the first European country to do so fully. The move is expected to delay the country’s vaccination programme by several weeks. Drug watchdog the European Medicines Agency last week announced a possible link with clots but said the risk […]
Nigeria has been ranked first in Africa and the sixth globally among the 30-high tuberculosis, TB, burden countries of the world. According to estimates from WHO global report 2020, tuberculosis kills 18 Nigerians every hour, 47 Nigerians develop active TB every hour, while 7 of them are children. According to a global tuberculosis report, 2020 […]
Members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have asked the Federal Government to honour its agreement with the union. They warned that should the government fail to honour its agreement in the next four weeks, they would be forced to declare another indefinite nationwide industrial action. President of NARD, Doctor UYILAWA OKHUAIHESUYI, gave […]
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, ISA PANTAMI, has denied reports the United States allegedly placed him on a ‘terror watch list’ for alleged ties with the late Boko Haram founder, MOHAMMED YUSUF. YUSUF said he has been preaching against Boko Haram for over 15 years over its condemnable doctrines and practices. PANTAMI, an […]
One JOY GODSTIME IHUNWO who was allegedly brutalized by operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit in Rivers State has revealed that she has lost her pregnancy after the incident. In an interview with our correspondent, the lady who wept uncontrollably said the scan result which was sighted by journalists, dated 10th April,2021 showed that she lost […]
The United Kingdom’s vaccine advisory body says under-30s are to be offered an alternative Covid jab to the AstraZeneca vaccine due to the evidence linking it to rare blood clots. It sad a review by drugs regulator MHRA found out that by the end of March 79 people in the UK had suffered rare blood […]
The Rivers state Commissioner for health, Professor PRINCEWILL CHIKE has urged the people in the state to work together in promoting equity in the society for better health outcome. Professor CHIKE who gave the advice as the World Health Day, takes centre stage today, urged everyone to always sustain clean environmental and personal hygiene. He […]
The United Kingdom Prime Minister, BORIS JOHNSON, has urged Britons to receive their Covid-19 vaccination when invited, following concerns about potential side effects of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. BORIS JOHNSON said getting vaccinated was “the key thing” and the regulator’s advice was to keep giving the jab. This came after a European Medicines Agency official, speaking […]
