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Shortage Of Medical Equipment, Threaten Health Workers’ In Osun

July 21, 2020 8:07 am

Despite the rising cases of coronavirus infections in Osun State, there is an acute shortage of necessary medical equipment, Personal Protective Equipment(PPE) to protect health workers in the state, DAILY POST reports.

Checks across all the 256 newly renovated Primary Health Centres in all the three senatorial districts in the state revealed that workers perform under palpable fear of being vulnerable to the ravaging pandemic.

Recall that the government accessed $20m from the World Health Organisation (WHO) about two years ago to strengthen health care delivery in the state, but analysts in the state have accused the Oyetola-led administration of

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UN, WHO Send 3,000 Health Workers To Kano, Cases Worsen

May 2, 2020 1:14 pm

Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha has disclosed that 3,000 health workers would be deployed to Kano state to help in the fight against COVID-19.

Mustapha, speaking at the presidential task force briefing on Friday, May 1, said the workers were put together by the United Nations.

On Friday, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, recorded three more COVID-19 deaths in Kano state.

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The agency also confirmed 92 cases of Coronavirus in the state, bringing the total number of cases in Kano to 311.

The

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29 Persons Quarantined In Anambra, Awaiting COVID-19 Test

April 13, 2020 1:56 pm

29 persons consisting of health workers, relations and business partners of the COVID-19 index case in Anambra State have been quarantined and are waiting to be tested, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr Vincent Okpala has revealed.

Okpala who spoke to journalists in Awka gave details of how the COVID-19 response team in the state searched for the index case from 8 pm to 3 am, after National Centre for Disease Control contacted the government to reveal that a case has been registered in Anambra.

The Commissioner for Health Said, “I went with the team to places I ordinarily would

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UK Doctor Who Urged PM To Provide Protective Gear Dies

April 9, 2020 2:42 pm

London, United Kingdom – A British doctor who warned United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson that health workers on the front line did not have enough personal protection equipment (PPE) has died of COVID-19.

Abdul Mabud Chowdhury, a 53-year-old consultant in the urology department at Queen Elizabeth hospital in Romford, worked for the NHS for more than 20 years after migrating from Bangladesh.

He died on Wednesday aged 53 after spending 15 days in hospital.