Health
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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…
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Dr Ameyo Stella Recognised in Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine for Stopping Ebola in Nigeria
Summary: Dr Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, the Nigerian physician who identified and contained the first Ebola index case in Lagos in July 2014, saving countless lives, has been officially recognised in the 11th edition of the…
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NARD Condemns Assault of Health Worker, Commences Strike in Ogun State
Summary: The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has expressed strong condemnation and commenced a strike for the brutal assault of one of its colleagues at Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State. The…
