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NLNG activates 6 of 12 hospital support projects
Sopuruchi Onwuka Nigeria LNG (NLNG) Limited flagged off its multi-billion-naira Hospital Support Programme (NLNG HSP) with Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with initial six out of 12 Nigerian teaching hospitals targeted in the scheme. Managing Director of the gas liquefaction and…
NLNG provides RSUTH with infectious diseases unit
Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH) for the provision of a multi-million naira Infectious Diseases Unit to support robust healthcare delivery in Rivers State. At a signing…
More COVID-19 variants underway as experts downgrade IHU
Sopuruchi Onwuka The world must brace for emergence of more variants of the dreaded SARS-COV-2, the pathogen that causes novel coronavirus disease also known as COVID-19. In separate briefings on the new variants of the virus including the widespread Omicron…
Experts deflate Ehanire’s vaccine waste response
FG saves N16.4b from donated vaccines, commits to local production Sopuruchi Onwuka Some medical experts speaking exclusively to The Oracle Today have dismissed government’s explanations over the expiration of about one million units of novel coronavirus disease vaccine donated to…
Nigeria thrashes 1m COVID vaccines in November
Late arrival of vaccines and inability of government officials to rapidly distribute and administer short life consignments led to expiry of about one million vaccines mainly donated to assist in boosting national immunity coverage. A Reuters report seen by The…
Panic overdrive: Omicron not that lethal!
Sopuruchi Onwuka Despite the global wave of panic over the new Omicron strain of the novel coronavirus also called COVID-19, emerging findings strongly indicate little or no aggravation of the persisting pandemic from the variant. Global vigilance against the spread…
Gilead recalls Remdesivir over glass contamination
(Agency report) American biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences Inc. has issued a nationwide recall of two lots of its coronavirus treatment drug Remdesivir due to the “presence of glass particulates,” the company said Friday. Washington Post reported early Sunday that Remdesivir,…
Omicron highly transmissible, yet mild against the vaccinated
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports Rapid study about the nature and structure of the new variant of coronavirus, Omicron, has doused fears that the new strain of the vector might spike a new wave of pandemic across the globe. Survey…
Drug makers rise to Omicron challenge
Sopuruchi Onwuka Leading pharmaceutical companies in the world which are currently innovating solutions to the ravaging coronavirus pandemic are now facing up to the panic about the latest strain of the virus described by the World health Organization as Omicron….
Scientists discover new lead to HIV cure
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports A new collaborative effort aims to cure HIV using a novel “block-lock-excise” approach and is backed by a $26.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. Scientists at Gladstone Institutes, Scripps Research, and Weill…
