News

Breaking: FCT discharges nine Covid-19 patients

Ihesiulo Grace 15 April 2020 0

By Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja At least, nine more patients of COVID-19 have being discharged from FCT Isolation centres having fully recovered from the dreaded virus. According to FCT Covid-19 Media team, the patients were discharged late Tuesday night after satisfying all the necessary protocols

Covid-19 News

Just in: Lagos discharges five coronavirus patients

Ihesiulo Grace 30 March 2020 0

Lagos State Government on Monday discharged five coronavirus patients who were admitted to and treated at the Infectious Disease Centre, Yaba Mainland Hospital. The survivors are four males and one female, bringing the total number of survivors from the cnetre to eight. The survivors were quarantined and treated at the isolation centre for two weeks […]

News

HMO wants healthcare providers to be fair to patients

Ihesiulo Grace 28 December 2019 0

Lagos – A Health Management Organisation (HMO), Sunu Health, says that no healthcare provider has the right to deny a patient primary care after being paid capitation for such services. The Managing Director of Sunu Health, which was formerly known as Managed Health Care, Mr Patrick Korie, made this assertion in an interview on Saturday […]

Health

Aisha Buhari donates food items to 6,000 patients across in Kano

Ihesiulo Grace 6 November 2019 0

The First Lady’s NGO, Aisha Buhari Foundation (ABF), on Tuesday presented a nutritional food items to six thousand (6,000) patients across eleven hospitals within Kano metropolis. Suleiman Haruna, the Director of Information in the First Lady’s office, made this known in a statement in Abuja.He said that a Senior official of the foundation, Fatima Rafindadi,distributed

Features

Patients hit by shortage of drugs as prices soar

Ihesiulo Grace 11 December 2017 0

….Mental illness and cancer sufferers forced to wait Shortages of at least 100 drugs have forced NHS officials to approve temporary price rises Cancer patients and people with severe mental illness are going without essential medicines because of shortages that have cost the NHS £180m (about N66.6m) in six months. At least 100 drugs have […]

Features

Except a Miracle Happens … These People May Never Leave Igbobi Hospital – Part 1

Ihesiulo Grace 28 March 2015 0

On Christmas day, the National Orthopaedic Hospital (NOH), Igbobi, on Ikorodu Road was as quiet and deserted as a Northern village after a terror attack. Save for few security personnel at the entrance and a lone female security officer reading at the long hallway of the Women’s Ward on the last floor of Mobolaji House […]