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DELTA ASSEMBLY MEMBERS ASSURE OKOWA OF THEIR PRAYERS IN THIS TRYING MOMENT

Posted by admin on Thursday, 02 July 2020 in Health 504 Reads

The Leadership and all Honourable Members of the Delta State House of Assembly have assured the State Governor, His Excellency, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa and his family of their prayers at this trying moment. Governor Okowa and wife, Dame Edith Okowa were on Wednesday reported to have tested positive to the Coronavirus and they had been ...

Coronavirus Didn’t Kill Nigerian Citizen, Oboba in London – Agberia

Posted by admin on Wednesday, 15 April 2020 in Health 601 Reads

Ovedhe Jerry. Following a story published in one of the national dailies that Coronavirus killed a Nigerian, identified as Mr. Simeon Oboba in an undisclosed London hospital at the early hours of on Sunday 12th April, 2020, Mr. Amos Agberia, a close friend of the diseased has refuted the story, saying the Late Simeon Oboba died ...

COVID-19: WUEDA CHARGES RESIDENTS OF WARRI, UVWIE, ENVIRONS TO CLEAN UP SURROUNDINGS

Posted by admin on Thursday, 26 March 2020 in Health 598 Reads

OGHENETEJIRI NYERHOVWO/GODWIN AYOBAMI RACHAEL As part of measures to enhance personal hygiene and curb the spread of diseases including the ravaging corona virus (covid-19), Warri/Uvwie and Environs Development Agency (WUEDA) has called on communities and residents of the area to immediately embark on a cleaning exercise of their surroundings. This call was made by Com. Ovuozourie Macaulay, ...

Delta First Lady Lauds The Passage of Sickle Cell Bill

Posted by admin on Wednesday, 03 April 2019 in Health 1108 Reads

Christopher Odamah Asaba The wife of the Delta State Governor and Founder O5 Initiative, Dame Edith Okowa has lauded the speaker and members of the Delta state House of Assembly for passing the Sickle cell bill into law. In a statement signed by the Special Assistant on Media to the wife of the state Governor, Mrs Alicia ...

Monkey-pox: Nigerian government confirms new cases

Posted by admin on Friday, 27 October 2017 in Health 1750 Reads

Nigerian government has confirmed six additional cases of Monkeypox. The cases are amongst those sent to the World Health Organisation’s laboratory in Dakar, Senegal, a statement by the Ministry of Health said Friday. Minister of State for Health, Osagie Ehanire, said two cases each were confirmed in Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom States, one each in Enugu State ...

Checking the menace of TB in Nigeria: The Agbami example

Posted by admin on Monday, 07 August 2017 in Health 1515 Reads

Tuberculosis, popularly known by its abbreviation, TB, has existed for millennia and remains a major global health problem. It causes ill-health in millions of people each year and in 2015 was one of the top 10 causes of death from an infectious disease worldwide, ranking above HIV/AIDS. In Nigeria, TB still creates a major health ...

HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT, MAJOR COMPONENT OF OUR ADMINISTRATION – OKOWA

Posted by admin on Friday, 04 March 2016 in Health 2350 Reads

By Francis Sadhere Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has reiterated his administration’s resolve to improve health infrastructures in the state, saying that health infrastructural development is a major component of his administration. L-R: Dr. Nicholas Azinge, Delta State Health Commissioner, Dr. Mayomi Onuwaje, Executive Director, Lily Hospital, Brig. Gen. (Dr.) Oviemu Ovadje (Rtd), Chairman, Board ...

DIAL-A-DOC-DIRECT; THE ROLE OF TELE-HEALTH IN ATTAINING UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE

Posted by admin on Friday, 08 January 2016 in Health 2367 Reads

By Our Correspondent A novel health care delivery service that links telecommunication technology to clinical health care has been introduced in Warri. Dr. Omas Ubiame, speaking at the Effurun Market during the road show and town hall meettings. Designed to put health care delivery at the finger tips of patients, the tele-clinical care project, as an innovative ...

Delta Nurses Kick Against Okowa’s Contributory Health Insurance Scheme

Posted by admin on Tuesday, 25 August 2015 in Health 2187 Reads

By Omos Oyinbode Amidst the calculated benefits derivable from Governor Okowa’s Contributory Health Insurance Scheme, practicing nurses in Delta State have kicked against the programme, saying nurses and hospitals are not prepared for the scheme. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State. State Chairman of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, Comrade Ejiro Egbedi, made the ...

Egbabor Organized Free Eye Screening, Surgery for Isoko North People

Posted by admin on Monday, 03 August 2015 in Health 3086 Reads

By Ovedhe Jerry. The executive chairman of Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State, Hon Emmanuel Egbabor recently organized a free eye screening and surgery to the people Isoko North at the council headquarter. Speakking during the flagging off of the 3days exercise, Hon Egbabor said that, the council deemed it necessary to organized the programme ...

Scientists to use Avocado in making Cancer Drug

Posted by admin on Thursday, 18 June 2015 in Health 1752 Reads

CANADA: In time, there could be a cancer drug made from avocado as Canadian scientists, hope to develop a new cancer-fighting drug using fat derived from the fruit. This is after a new study, published in the journal Cancer Research, revealed fat from the creamy fruit can combat acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), a rare but deadly ...

TYPE 1 DIABETES EASILY UNDERSTANDABLE

Posted by admin on Wednesday, 13 May 2015 in Health 1767 Reads

TYPE 1 DIABETES EASILY UNDERSTANDABLE You may hear a lot of different explanation and sometimes misleading information about diabetes and how it affects people. I will go from step by step to talk about type 1 diabetes. What is diabetes? Diabetes is a condition where your body can not produce insulin, doesn’t produce enough or where ...

Diabetic Patients Can Live Normal Lives If Well Managed -Mrs. Ekpoke

Posted by admin on Monday, 04 May 2015 in Health, News 2103 Reads

By Francis Sadhere Founder/C.E.O, Graceland Diabetic Foundation, Mrs. Mercy O. Ekpoke has said that diabetic patients can live normal lives if the disease is well managed and diagnosed on time, adding that a lot of diabetic related death in Africa were as a result of late diagnosis. Mrs. Mercy O. Ekpoke, Founder/C.E.O, Graceland Diabetes Foundation. Mrs. Ekpoke ...

SEPLAT Commences Eye Care Initiative For Host Communities

Posted by admin on Sunday, 26 April 2015 in Health 2393 Reads

Okpalaume Mary As part of its commitment on bringing free, qualitative and comprehensive health care to members of its host communities, SEPLAT Petroleum Development Company Limited, operators of the NPDC/ SEPLAT joint venture, has commenced fourth edition of the “Eye Can See” programme. the One of the Doctors exermining a patient at the program The eye care ...

Over a thousand people get free medical treatments in Ughelli ….as twenty Law students clinch Ekuogbe Akpodiete Foundation scholarship awards

Posted by admin on Tuesday, 07 April 2015 in Health 2165 Reads

By Harriet Anetor Determined to promote good health care practices amongst Nigerians, the Elohim Ministries International (USA) and Ekuogbe Akpodiete Foundation have recently provided free medical treatment to over a thousand people in Ughelli kingdom. Fielding questions from newsmen, the President of Elohim Ministries International and Executive Director of Ekuogbe Akpodiete Foundation Brenda Ome Ekuo-Akpodiete stated that ...

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