•Babcock University Teaching Hospital The management of Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilisan Remo, has launched a search party for the children of one of its patients, 81-year-old Mr Maurice Okpenyong, who has been abandoned at its medical facility. This was according to a statement issued by the Director of Communication of the univer...
•Lassa Fever The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), Dr Jide Idris, has confirmed the outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic fever (Lassa fever) that claimed the lives of three staff members of 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna. Briefing journalists yesterday in Abuja, Idris said that the NCD...
More than 500 personnel of the National Hospital, Abuja (NHA), left its services in search of greener pastures in the last two years, its Chief Medical Director, Prof. Mahmud Raji, has disclosed. Raji told our correspondent today in Abuja that most of them went abroad in search of better working conditions, reports The Guardian. “The […...
•Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital gate One thousand five hundred staff at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC) stormed the hospital today in protest against their sack by the management of the hospital. The employees were yesterday asked to desist from coming to work. The enraged workers lamented that t...
•Philomena Nnamoko A female soldier attached to Ilese Sappers Barracks, Division 2, Ogun State, Lance Corporal Philomena Nnamoko, who alleged that her senior colleagues had been bullying and harassing her following her refusal to give in to their sexual advances, was allegedly beaten and sent to the Yaba Psychiatric Hospital following her inte...
•King Charles King Charles III was on Friday admitted to a London hospital for scheduled surgery, Buckingham Palace said, a week after revealing the British monarch would be treated for an enlarged prostate. “The king was this morning admitted to a London hospital for scheduled treatment,” the palace added, noting that he thanked “all those [&...
•Lagos hospital Five months after an elevator accident led to the death of a House Officer, Dr Vwaere Diaso, at the General Hospital, Odan Lagos, the equipment was yet to be replaced. Diaso was killed after the elevator crashed from the 10th floor to the ground floor of the 131-year-old hospital, reports Sunday PUNCH. A […]
•Lagos hospital Five months after an elevator accident led to the death of a House Officer, Dr Vwaere Diaso, at the General Hospital, Odan Lagos, the equipment was yet to be replaced. Diaso was killed after the elevator crashed from the 10th floor to the ground floor of the 131-year-old hospital, reports Sunday PUNCH. A […]
•Zachee Orji Prayers from celebrities and netizens have started to pour in for a veteran Nollywood actor, Zachee Orji , commonly called Zack Orji, after a video of him in the hospital went viral today. According to his friends who reached out to Linda Ikeji’s blog, the actor was “rushed to the hospital two days […]
•Tom Lockyer Luton captain Tom Lockyer has been discharged from hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest during a Premier League match, the club announced today. Lockyer collapsed in the second half of Saturday’s match at Bournemouth and the game was subsequently abandoned, reports AFP. The 29-year-old has had an implantable cardioverter defi...