Health

ECOWAS may need $50m to combat Covid-19 epidemic, says WAHO boss

Ihesiulo Grace 20 February 2020 0

The Director General, West African Health Organisation (WAHO), Professor. Stanley Okolo, has disclosed that the region may need within the range of 30 to 50 million dollars to combat the Covid-19 epidemic. Disclosing this at a media briefing in Abuja on Monday, he called on partners and the

Health

China stiffens defences against epidemic as death toll hits 56

Ihesiulo Grace 26 January 2020 0

China expanded drastic travel restrictions Sunday to contain an epidemic that has killed 56 people and infected nearly 2,000, as the US, France and Japan prepared to evacuate their citizens from a quarantined city at the outbreak’s epicentre. China has locked down the hard-hit province of Hubei in the country’s centre in an unprecedented operation […]

News Politics

NCDC, PHN partner private sector to check disease outbreaks

Ihesiulo Grace 10 August 2018 0

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria (PHN), have launched a new initiative known as the Alliance for Epidemic Preparedness and Response (A4EPR) to check disease outbreaks. According to the two bodies, the aim of the initiative is to develop a formal structure for the private sector […]

Features

WATER POLUTION: 31 feared dead in Delta as government moves to sanitise abattoirs

Ihesiulo Grace 9 October 2017 0

Proximity of abattoirs to the people’s source of drinking water in Delta state has triggered off an epidemic that has claimed 31 lives in just six months, forcing the state government to embark on a fire brigade approach to sanitise all abattoirs located at the periphery of the rivers, The Daily Times has gathered. The […]