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NLNG begins Phase 2 of its Hospital Support Programme
Nigeria LNG (NLNG) on Monday signed a Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with three Nigerian teaching hospitals to flag off the second phase of its multi-billion-naira Hospital Support Programme (NLNG HSP). The NLNG Hospital Support Programme (HSP) is NLNG’s national Corporate…
Cameroon shuts border with E. Guinea over marburg pandemic
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports Outbreak of deadly Marburg disease which has killed nine people and forced some 4000 others into quarantine in Equatorial Guinea has forced Nigeria’s neighbor, Cameroon, to shut borders. According to online reports monitored from Lagos,…
Daughter, Sonia, in Hospital as Ekweremadus stand trial
Daughter of former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, lay critical in hospital in the United Kingdom as London prosecutors struggle to send her parents to jail. The Senator who is detained in London and his wife who is…
US approves $3.5 million treatment for hemophilia
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of Hemgenix for treatment of hemophilia but at the cost $3.5 million per patient, making it the world’s most expensive medicine. Hemgenix would be the first gene therapy to treat…
NLNG delivers 12 university teaching hospital projects
Nigeria LNG (NLNG) Limited has commissioned a newly built maternity centre at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH), Gwagwalada; setting of a scheduled set of project deliveries under the Phase of its multi-billion-naira Hospital Support Programme (NLNG HSP). The…
AIICO attacks breast cancer with 30 treatments, 100 tests
Sopuruchi Onwuka Frontline insurance services provider in Nigeria, AIICO Plc, has declared sponsorship of breast cancer treatment for 30 patients in the country, adding that it is also driving preventive mammogram test for over 100 women in the country. The…
International doctors warn of starvation in besieged northwest
Nigeria faces worsening malnutrition in the northwest due to insecurity, high food prices and the impact of climate change, Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) said on Tuesday, calling for the region to be included in United Nations funding plans next year….
Portugal’s health minister quits after pregnant tourist dies
Portugal’s health minister has resigned hours after reports emerged that a pregnant tourist had died after being turned away from a full maternity ward. The 34-year-old Indian woman reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest while being transferred between Lisbon hospitals. It…
Monkeypox records breakthrough cases, WHO alerts
As demand for monkeypox vaccines increases, the World Health Organization (WHO) has begun to receive preliminary reports on the efficacy of the shots, which suggests there are breakthrough cases occurring, officials said Wednesday. “We have known from the beginning that…
Biden back to quarantine for 2nd COVID
Days after being cleared to end isolation after a coronavirus infection, the US president, Joe Biden, is is back to isolation after he tested positive again in a rare “rebound” case. President Biden said he was experiencing no resurgence of…
