Reports filtering into the public domain indicate that the emergency section of Nigeria’s premier university’s teaching hospital has deteriorated so badly that patients and their relations refer to it as a ‘killing field! This is indeed a tragedy, a further reflection of the decadence which the nation’s public health institutions have suffered in the last […]
Ibadan – Dr Abu Okolo, Head, Department of Pathology, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan says the institution has so far recorded not less than seven cases of suicides arising from the use of snipers. Okolo made this known on Tuesday in Ibadan at the opening of a five-day workshop entitled “Fundamentals of Forensic Medical Practice”. […]
Prof. Olayinka Omigbodun, a Consultant Psychiatrist and Head of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Department at the University College Hospital ( UCH ), Ibadan, says more than 1,680 cases of mental illness were treated in the facility in the last one year. Omigbodun, who spoke to the News men in Ibadan, said that government was […]
The Oyo state Social Democratic party, SDP, governorship candidate. Engr. Seyi. Makinde, has offered to underwrite the medical bill of the 14-year old SS1 student of his Alma Mata, Bishop Phillips Academy High School, Ibadan, Iyanu Dahunsi, who was brutalised by the secretary of the school principal and now receiving treatment at the University […]