The Ekiti State Government has sacked a surgeon, who was accused of removing the kidney of a patient without their prior consent at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH). This was contained in a statement signed and made available to journalists by the Commissioner for Health, Oyebanji Filani. It also recommended that all membe...
•Jailed Dr Frederic Pechier A French court today sentenced a doctor to life in jail for poisoning 30 child and adult patients, 12 of whom died, in an alleged attempt to discredit co-workers. Frederic Pechier, 53, worked as an anaesthetist in two clinics in the eastern city of Besancon, when patients went into cardiac arrest […]
•DSS operatives The Department of State Service has reportedly arrested a medical doctor said to be supplying drugs to kidnapping gangs operating in parts of Kwara State. The suspect, whose name could not be ascertained at press time, was intercepted in the Jebba area after intelligence reports revealed that some couriers had been moving medic...
•Tinubu and Nnamdi Kanu The Lead Personal Physician to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has warned that the sudden transfer of his patient to the Sokoto Correctional Facility, less than 24 hours after his conviction, poses grave and potentially life-threatening medical risks. Kanu, who was convicted and s...
•US President Donald Trump Donald Trump is in “excellent overall health,” his physician said yesterday after the 79-year-old — the oldest elected president in US history — underwent his second medical checkup of the year. “President Trump continues to demonstrate excellent overall health,” the doctor, Navy Captain Sean Barbabella, wrote in a l...
•Dr Frederic Pechier A French doctor who goes on trial today, accused of intentionally poisoning 30 patients, 12 of whom died, sounded defiant in a radio interview before the hearings opened, saying he was not responsible for the “distress” of his alleged victims and their families. Frederic Pechier, 53, worked as an anaesthetist at two [&hell...
•Prof. Fatai Fehintola Professor Fatai Fehintola, consultant physician and clinical pharmacologist at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, speaks about multivitamins and mineral supplements, when they are required, and caution on their rational use for improving health, reports Nigerian Tribune. Excerpts: Are multivitamins necessary supple...
As Nigeria marked the 2025 edition of International Workers’ Day, medical doctors in Lagos raised an alarm over the worsening crisis in the nation’s health sector, demanding urgent and comprehensive reforms to address what they described as “a collapsing system losing its best minds daily.” In a statement signed by the Chairman of the Lagos [&...
An Ondo State Magistrate Court, sitting in Akure has ordered the remand of two men, Adebowale Adegboye, and Idowu Akinseye in prison custody for allegedly raping a 10-year-old girl (name withheld). While Adegboye is the father of the victim, Akinseye is her stepfather, reports The PUNCH. The duo were alleged to have had carnal knowledge [&hell...
Suspected kidnappers have allegedly abducted a 60-year-old woman, Talatu Ali, from the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Dawanau in Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area of Kano State. The incident, it was gathered occurred, while she was awaiting medical consultation, reports Daily Trust. According to counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, the vic...
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