Health
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Nigeria’s Maternal Mortality: Doctor Dies After Delivering Triplets in Bayelsa
A medical doctor, Dr Ere Siana Sintei Ogbachi, has died following complications shortly after delivering a set of triplets at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital (NDUTH), Okolobiri, in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa…
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“Conversations Around Women’s Reproductive Health are Surrounded by Silence” — Health Communicator Fungai Mutimodyo
Summary: A science and health communicator, journalism lecturer, and media practitioner based in Zimbabwe speaks on reproductive health misinformation, media literacy, and building feminist movements rooted in access to information and collective action. Fungai Mutimodyo…
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Lady Decries Nigeria’s Exorbitant Healthcare as Hospital Demands Test Interpretation Fee
A personal food shopper in Nigeria, Tobi Odukoya, decries the high cost of health care, complaining that she spent approximately ₦483,000 on gynaecological care at a private hospital on Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja, Lagos, yet had…
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‘Husband stitch’: The controversial after-birth suture that puts Nigerian women at risk
Shattered, broken, traumatised, Faith has not been the same since she had her first child in 2023. “I will never have another child again. Childbirth damaged me permanently,” she said. It all started when she…
