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Health

March 14, 2023

Pakistan busts gang trafficking kidneys to wealthy foreigners

Wealthy foreign buyers pay up to $50,000 for a kidney transplant, but the donor hardly gets around $3,000.

Punjab Human Organ and Transplant Authority
March 13, 2023

Military healthcare staff deployed as public health workers embark on strike in South Africa

Baxolise Mali, provincial general secretary of National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU), justified the strike as a means to drive home their demands.

South African military
March 12, 2023

UNICEF says 2,000 children suffering from stunted growth in Lagos

The UN agency urged the state government to ensure that the numbers don’t continue to increase.

Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu
March 11, 2023

FG restates commitment to biosafety; prepares new guidelines for genetic engineering 

“We are ready to regulate every product that comes into the country,” he said.

National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) and Dr Rufus Ebegba
March 10, 2023

32 survivors from Lagos train accident discharged: Health commissioner

The commissioner said that the accident recorded 102 casualties including six fatalities.

Lagos health commissioner Akin Abayomi. [CREDIT: Twitter page of Mr Abayomi]
March 10, 2023

U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell falls, hospitalised for concussion

“Leader McConnell tripped at a dinner event Wednesday evening and has been admitted to the hospital and is being treated for a concussion.”

U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell
March 9, 2023

Premier Hospital doctors indicted for medical negligence over Peju Ugboma’s death

The coroner said that the failure of appropriate response – substandard care and inadequate optimal care contributed to her untimely demise.

Premier Specialist Hospital
March 8, 2023

CDD identifies silence as barrier to ending SGBV in North-East

Ms Nur-Alkali said women were unwilling to speak out about their experience, adding that “the victims are being blamed, denied help or told to stop talking.”

Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV)
March 7, 2023

7.3 million Nigerian girls, women undernourished, worsening maternal mortality: UNICEF

“Without urgent action from the international community, the consequences could last for generations to come.”

Pregnant girls
March 7, 2023

Stakeholders seek universal access to sanitation in Africa

The next African Water and Sanitation Association congress will take place in February 2024 in Guinea Conakry.

Children fetching carrying water in can (Credit world vision)