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We lost N200m drugs to fire-Zamfara Health Commissioner

The Zamfara Government on Sunday said over N200 million worth of drugs were destroyed in a recent fire outbreak at the State Central Medical Store in

Issues in FG’s planned new trauma centres

Trauma  Trauma is physical injury or wound that poses a threat to life, that may result in disability or serious ill health. It is now regarded a

Lassa: The fever that won’t go away

Dr Nicholas Baamlong had a narrow miss with Lassa fever virus, a disease that’s killed many and is still killing. His patient was bleeding from

Boko Haram: 276,000 pregnancies expected this year in north east

The United Nations Population Fund estimates there could be up to 276,000 pregnancies among in 2017 among women displaced in the north east by Boko Ha

What is gastrointestinal perforation?

          A friend of mine died recently and an X- ray conducted on him the same day he died showed that he had gastrointesti