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Rapists In Adamawa To Get Special Treatment

January 16, 2020 11:37 am
The Adamawa State Government is to designate a court for the specific purpose of adjudicating over rape cases.

The government made the pronouncement Thursday against prevailing high number of rape incidents, most of them poorly prosecuted in the general courts.

The state Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Barr Afraimu Jingi, who spoke on the matter to newsmen in his office at the state Secretariat in Yola, said the court to be designated would have personnel whose dedication would be to handle rape cases.\

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Fielding questions from newsmen

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You Lack Morale To Caution Against Foreign Treatment- PDP

January 6, 2020 9:23 am
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has slammed President Muhammadu Buhari for counselling Nigerians against travelling abroad to seek medical help.

PDP charged Buhari to lead by example, stressing that such remark was ridiculous.

Buhari had on Friday during the inauguration and handover of a completed project to the management of the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital in Abakaliki, urged Nigerians to stop travelling abroad for medical treatment.

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Buhari, who was represented by Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology, had said it’s not good for Nigerians to travel

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Reps Ask FG To Subsidize Kidney Treatment

December 17, 2019 2:34 pm

The House of Representatives on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to fully equip kidney dialysis centres in health facilities across the country and subsidize treatments for kidney disease patients.

The House made the call following the adoption of a motion moved by Zannah Usman on Tuesday.

Moving the motion, Usman said that subsidizing the cost of treatment would encourage patients to seek early intervention.

The lawmaker said that according to reports, the disease affects 20 percent of Nigerians and contributes to the rising mortality rates in the country.

He said the death rates were a result of patients inability …

New TB Treatment For Developing Countries To Cost $1,040

New TB Treatment For Developing Countries To Cost $1,040

October 28, 2019 10:43 am
A newly approved three-drug treatment for tuberculosis will be available in 150 countries, including India and South Africa, priced at 1,040 dollars for a complete regimen, more than twice the cost proposed in the past by advocacy groups for other treatments.
Stop TB Partnership said on Monday that BPaL would be obtainable in eligible countries through the Global Drug Facility (GDF), a global provider of TB medicines created in 2001 to negotiate lower prices for treatments.
Tuberculosis was responsible for 1.5 million deaths in 2018.

BPaL is an oral treatment which promises a shorter, more convenient option to existing TB

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Shiites leader El-Zakzaky, with wife in India for treatment

Shiites leader El-Zakzaky, with wife in India for treatment

August 13, 2019 9:38 am

The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat Tuesday arrived in India.

El-Zakzaky and Zeenat left Nigeria Monday evening around 6:45 pm for India for medical check-up aboard Emirate flight flight EK786 at about 6:45 pm en route Dubai to Mumbai, India.

Before his departure, operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) the Nigeria Police laid siege to the International wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja from 1:30 pm to about 3:30 pm.

The Shiites leader arrived at the airport at about 3:00 pm via the Kaduna -Abuja rail …

Govt to supervise El-Zakzaky’s travel for treatment abroad

Govt to supervise El-Zakzaky’s travel for treatment abroad

August 6, 2019 8:55 am
The Kaduna State High Court yesterday granted the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat, permission to travel to an Indian hospital for medical treatment.

The ruling was not without conditions attached. El-Zakzaky and Zeenat must not go to any other hospital other than the one they specifically requested. Also, the travel of the Shiites’ leader and his wife must be under the strict supervision of the state officials.

The leader of the IMN, whose members are also known as Shiites and his wife were absent from court during the ruling by

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Psychiatrist recommends early treatment of mental ailment

April 20, 2019 10:21 pm

Dr Shehu Sale, a Consultant Psychiatrist, has advised Nigerians to report persons with mental ailment early at recognised health facilities.

Sale, who is also the Medical Director of Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital (FNPH), Kware, Sokoto State, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Sokoto.

The psychiatrist said that early report and diagnosis of mental ailments would help to curtail the number of rising cases in the country.

He pointed out that mental cases were on the increase in the country because they were hardly reported at the right hospitals and at …

Tinubu seeks adequate treatment for survivors

March 14, 2019 10:09 pm

All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday urged the Lagos State government to ensure adequate treatment for the survivors of the collapsed building.

Asiwaju Tinubu, who described the incident as tragic, also commiserated with the families .

The former Lagos governor called on Lagosians to donate blood to the survivors.

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