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Sep

25

2023

Breaking: HoA Speaker Narrowly Escapes Death

HEALTH#FatalAccident, #OsunDecides, Adewale Egbedun

Breaking: HoA Speaker Narrowly Escapes Death The Speaker of Osun State House of Assembly, Adewale Egbedun on Sunday, September 24, escaped death through a hair's breadth, as his convoy involved in an accident. The Nation reports that, no fewer than four of the security operatives attached to him were severely injured during the accident, which occurred while they were leaving Osogbo, the state's capital. An anonymous source disclosed that the cause of the road accident was faulty tyre after its first layer removed on the motion. He said: “The vehicle hit that of speaker but with low impact. The speaker…

Aug

18

2023

By Famous Reporters

MNJTF Donates Health, Educational Facilities to Communities in Sector 2 – Chad

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MNJTF Donates Health and Educational Facilities to Communities in Sector 2 - Chad The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) has donated and handed over some completed Quick Impact Projects to the communities of Tchougoudoum, Tchamare, and Ketcha in Sector 2 Chad. In a press statement e-signed and released to the National Association of Online Security News Publishers, NAOSNP by the Military Public Information Officer - N'djamena, Lt. Col. Abubakar Abdullahi stated that, "The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) has handed over some completed Quick Impact Projects to the communities of Tchougoudoum, Tchamare, and Ketcha in Sector 2 Chad." According to…

Feb

06

2023

By Famous Reporters

Coal Camp Medical Centre Organises Free Medical Mission

HEALTH, NEWS#Antenatal, #CoalCampMedicalCentre, #FreeMedicalMission, #Surgery, Enugu

Coal Camp Medical Centre Organises Free Medical Mission In a bid to ameliorate the deteriorating health condition of the masses, the Coal Camp Medical Centre says it shall offer Free Medical Mission to residents of Enugu State, (Coal City). A release made available to famousreporters.com revealed that the programme would offer "Free, comprehensive medical care that includes; Surgeries, Routine Healthcare, Vision, Dental and Antenatal/ Child delivery Famousreporters.com gathered that the six-days outreach is scheduled to commence Tuesday, February 7 and would last up until February 12. Below are details of the programme.Fre

Aug

25

2022

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Abia NAWOJ, Ministry Of Health Sensitise Residents On Monkeypox Outbreak

HEALTH, NEWS#AbiaNAWOJ, #Health, #Monkeypox

Abia NAWOJ, Ministry Of Health Sensitise Residents On Monkeypox Outbreak Following the global threat posed by the outbreak of Monkeypox, the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ, Abia State Chapter has, in conjunction with the Public Health Emergency Operations Center, Ministry of Health, deepened awareness campaigns to keep in check the subsisting spread in the country . Speaking during the event held at NAVC/ICPC office, in Umuahia, the state's capital, the Chairperson, Caretaker Committee of NAWOJ Abia State Chapter Mrs Oluchi Lechi-Ikechukwu urged Abians to support government through raising awareness on preventive measures. She also called on humanitarian Nongovernmental Organisations…

Aug

11

2022

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Prof. Ibe Takes Free Medicare To Abia North

HEALTH#GregoryFoundation, #GregoryUniversityUturu, #Prof.GregoryIbe, #SurgicalOutreach

S Prof. Ibe Takes Free Medicare To Abia North Sequel to the completion of the Abia Central Senatorial zone edition of the Prof Gregory Ibe Free Medical and Surgical Outreach, arrangements have been concluded for the commencement of the Abia North Senatorial zone stanza. A press statement signed by Hon. Boniface Ikwuagwu, Executive Secretary of Gregory Iyke Foundation, organizers of the outreach, reveals that the Abia North exercise will kick off with a flag off ceremony on Friday 12 August 2022 at Obimba Hall Amaekpu Ohafia. According to Hon Ikwuagwu,” Having completed the Abia Central edition of our programme where the…

Aug

06

2022

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X-raying impacts of Greg Ibe’s free medical/surgical outreach

HEALTH#FreeMedicalOutreach, #GregoryFoundation, #GregoryIbe, #medi-care

X-raying impacts of Greg Ibe's free medical/surgical outreach By Steve Oko At no time will the free medical/surgical outreach floated on Tuesday by the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State, Professor Greg Ibe, be more apt than now that the health sector of the state is undeniably in a bad shape. Patients on queue for medical screening at Greg Ibe's free medical outreach This is because the intervention will bring a huge relief to thousands of residents with different kinds of health challenges but could not…

Aug

03

2022

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FREE MEDICAL OUTREACH FOR 20,000 ABIANS: Greg Ibe bemoans ABSUTH condition *Says protracted Doctors’ strike increased functional mortuaries in State

HEALTH, NEWS#AbiaState, #FreeMedicalOutreach, #FunctionalMortuary, #GregoryFoundation, #GregoryIbe, #Infrastructure, #mortuaryServiceBan, underdevelopment

FREE MEDICAL OUTREACH FOR 20,000 ABIANS: Greg Ibe bemoans ABSUTH condition *Says protracted Doctors' strike increased functional mortuaries in State The governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State, Professor Greg Ibe says his vision is to rescue not fewer than 20,000 patients in Abia in his extant free Medical and Surgical Outreach in Umuahia, the State's capital. Professor Ibe who expressed acrimony towards the dilapidated stated of infrastructure, particularly the utter negligence towards the health sector, regretted that an acclaimed God's own State houses more functional mortuaries than hospital. The Chancellor of Gregory University,…

Apr

03

2022

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Umahi, NGO Set To revitalize all the collapsed general hospitals in Ebonyi

HEALTH, NEWS#Health, Community health workers, ebonyi state government, Engr. David Nweze Umahi, Health insurance, partnership

Umahi, NGO set to revitalize all the collapsed general hospitals in Ebonyi Ebonyi state governor, Chief David Umahi and a non-governmental organization under the eagis of 'Bloom Public Health' has signed a memorandum of understanding, MoU, to revitalize all the collapsed general hospitals located in the 13 Local government areas of the state. The governor who spoke during the signing of the MoU, that took place at the new government house, centinary city Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi state said the people of the state will have a good access to quality health care service delivery. Earlier in a remark, the…

Oct

30

2021

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Umungasi Aba Rotary Club inaugurates New Environmental Regime, donates Medical Waste Incinerator

HEALTHFENRAD, Machine, Medical Waste Incinerator, Prof. L. N. Chigbu, Rotary Club of Umungasi Aba District 9142, Rotary International, Waste disposal, Waste Incinerator

In her quest to ensure a robust environmental health safety of residents of Aba, the commercial bane of Abia State, the Rotary Club of Umungasi Aba District 9142 has disclosed her readiness to Inaugurate a 'New Environmental Regime in the city. The Rector, Abia State College of Health Sciences and Management Technology, Aba, Prof. L. N. Chigbu disclosed this over the week, during the historic unveiling of medical waste incinerator installed at Abia State College of Health Sciences and Management Technology, Aba. In his address, Prof Chigbu, amidst euphoria, described the modern Medical Waste Incinerator, as donated by Rotary Club…

Oct

17

2021

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Compulsory COVID-19 vaccination, illegal — NBA Official, Ubani<br>…Moves to sue Nigerian Govt

Compulsory COVID-19 vaccination, illegal — NBA Official, Ubani
…Moves to sue Nigerian Govt

HEALTHCOVID-19 vaccine, health, Vaccination

Compulsory COVID-19 vaccination, illegal --- NBA Official, Ubani…Moves to sue Nigerian Govt Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL), Barr. Monday Onyekachi Ubani has disclosed his resolve to drag the Government of President Mohammadu Buhari to court over the imposition of Covid-19 vaccination. Ubani who frowned at the order of the federal government which mandated every civil servant to get vaccinated, stresses that they order violated existing labour terms and the fundamental rights of the civil servants to their privacy, life, movement, religious belief and faith, and liberty. The NBA official said any directive…