Ebola cases in DR Congo rise to 5,021, Africa CDC says
By Our Correspondent ABUJA — The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has risen to 5,021, with 2,378 deaths recorded in the country’s latest outbreak, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Wednesday. The outbreak, declared on May 15, is the DRC’s 17th Ebola […]
Damaturu Specialist Hospital performs first lower jaw surgery
The Yobe State Specialist Hospital, Damaturu, has successfully carried out a highly specialized segmental mandibulectomy with reconstruction — a major maxillofacial surgical procedure performed for the first time at any state-owned facility and the first in North-eastern Nigeria.
‘Next pandemic could be worse than COVID’
Global health experts have warned that the world is now even more vulnerable to another devastating pandemic
Uncontrolled hypertension leads to stroke, heart failure, cardiologist warns
By Chioma Obinna As Nigerians join the rest of the world to mark this year’s World Hypertension Day, May 17, a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Dr. Ramon Moronkola, warned that millions of Nigerians may be living with high blood pressure unknowingly, raising concerns over the increasing burden of […]
Ebola fears: Nigerian scientists want emergency border surveillance
Nigeria’s medical scientists yesterday raised fresh alarm over the risk of Ebola slipping into the country
May & Baker worries over rising cases of HBP among Nigerians
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of May & Baker Nigeria Plc, Pharm. Patrick Ajah, has raised alarm over the growing burden of hypertension in Nigeria, warning that millions of Nigerians are living with dangerously high blood pressure without knowing it.
