Health

80 New COVID-19 Cases, 15 Discharged And 0 Deaths On April 15 80 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria:- Lagos-29 Rivers-19 Zamfara-6 Akwa Ibom-4 Edo-4 Osun-4 Plateau-4 Ogun-3 Kano-3 Nasarawa-2 FCT-1 Oyo-1

Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom, has expressed delight over the sharp drop in the rate of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, which causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, AIDS, from 12.9 to 4.7 per cent in Benue State. Ortom expressed his joy when the zonal Coordinator, North Central Zone of the National Agency for the Control of…

89 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-19 FCT-15 Adamawa-12 Akwa Ibom-10 Cross River-9 Rivers-6 Ogun-6 Kano-5 Kaduna-4 Osun-3 Today’s report includes data from Adamawa State recorded from the 23rd of March 2021.

The president, Association of Resident Doctors, Dala Orthopedic Chapter, Buba Ibrahim Babangida on Tuesday confirmed that its members have suspended their strike action, trusting that the MoU signed with the Federal Government will be fulfilled. ”Following our national emergency congress meeting, it was unanimously decided that we should suspend the strike action for four weeks…

The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has called off the strike embarked on since April 1 by the medical doctors. The decision to end the strike followed an agreement reached with the government on Friday night. The strike was called off on Saturday evening after a virtual meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC)…

The Senate Committee on Health has faulted the strike embarked upon by resident doctors, asking Nigerians to hold the doctors responsible if any patient dies on account of the strike. Chairman of the committee, Ibrahim Oloriegbe, said this during a public hearing on the ‘Federal Medical Centre, Mubi, Adamawa State (Establishment) Bill, 2021’ sponsored by…

83 New COVID-19 Cases, 217 Discharged And 0 Deaths On April 8 83 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-22 Rivers-18 Nasarawa-9 Cross River-8 Ondo-6 Delta-5 Akwa Ibom-4 Bauchi-3 Zamfara-2 Kaduna-2 Ebonyi-1 Sokoto-1 Ekiti-1 Kano-1

110 New COVID-19 Cases, 158 Discharged And 0 Deaths On April 7 110 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria:- Lagos-24 Yobe-24 FCT-16 Bayelsa-10 Rivers-10 Kaduna-10 Nasarawa-5 Akwa Ibom-4 Bauchi-3 Edo-3 Plateau-1

The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has apologized to Nigerians over the strike embarked upon by the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD). The resident doctors began an indefinite strike on Thursday,  April 1, over salary arrears and owed allowances. Addressing journalists on Sunday, April 4 in Abuja, Enema Amodu, NMA chairman of the federal capital…

Patients and some others who came to access medical care in the University of Uyo Teaching hospital, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State were left stranded following the ongoing strike by resident doctors in Nigeria. Recall that the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) had on Thursday, April 1, 2021, embarked on an indefinite strike due to…