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To Decongest Morgues, Ondo Gives 30-days Window for Families to Bury their Dead

May 10, 2020 on HealthXtra by Ifidon Janet

To Decongest Morgues, Ondo Gives 30-days Window for Families to Bury their Dead

May 10, 2020 on HealthXtra by Ifidon Janet

Following the congestion in mortuaries by non-coronavirus related corpses, Ondo State Government has ordered that burial can now take place in the state. Wahab Adegbenro, the State Commissioner for health who said this on Saturday, in Akure the State Capital, made it clear that such funerals must take place within the next 30 days, after which the…

The World Celebrates Hand Hygiene Day

May 5, 2020 on HealthXtra, Big Story by Ifidon Janet

The World Health Organization, WHO celebrates the annual World Hand Hygiene Day, on Tuesday, May 5, 2020. With the celebration, it aims to recognize nurses and midwives as front-line heroes who deserve acknowledgment and appreciation, and highlight their critical roles in infection prevention under the slogan, “Save Lives, Clean your hands”. According to WHO, the…

Antiviral Drug for COVID-19 Excites Ihekweazu, NCDC DG

May 4, 2020 on HealthXtra, Big Story, News by Adekunbi Ero

Advises review of anti-quarantine law be put on hold The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu, is excited about the prospect of an antiviral drug, Remdesivir, approved by the Food and Drug Administration, FDA, United States of America for the treatment of the coronavirus disease, COVID-19 which has been ravaging…

Hope Rises for COVID-19 Patients as Catholic Monks in Edo Develop Cure

May 1, 2020 on HealthXtra, Big Story, News by Adekunbi Ero

As the search for cure for the coronavirus disease, COVID-19 continues, the Pax Herbal Clinic and Research Laboratories, Ewu, in Esan Central local government area of Edo State managed by the Oblates of St Benedictine’s Catholic Monks has announced the development of an herbal medicine, “CVD PLUS” for the cure of the virus infection. The…

We Were Not Invited to Inspect Consignment of Rice to Oyo State – Adeyeye, NAFDAC DG

April 29, 2020 on HealthXtra, Big Story by Adekunbi Ero

As the Oyo State consignment of rice from the Federal Government as part of palliatives to cushion the effect of COVID-19 lockdown remains enmeshed in controversy, the Director-General of the Nigeria Agency for Food, Drugs and Administration Control, NAFDAC, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye has said the agency was not in a position to explain what went…

Hope Rises for COVID-19 Cure

April 20, 2020 on Big Story, HealthXtra by Anayochukwu Agbo

Hope surges around the world as Remdesivir is proving effective against coronavirus. Optimism is welling up in United States with the promising returns from Remdesivir, an investigational antiviral drug from Gilead Sciences, which is on clinical trials. A Chicago hospital using the drug in the treatment of severe COVID-19 patients has reported rapid recoveries. About…

Who Will Save Gombe From Erosion?

December 24, 2019 on Big Story, HealthXtra, Property by TELL

From Mohammed Ali They have since given up hope for any respite from the authorities, in spite of their endless years of cries for succour. Of course, past administrations in the state had done what they could to address the situation with the available resources at their disposal, to no avail. It was one problem…

Uduaghan Mourns…As Tony Obuh, Former Political Aide Dies at 62

December 12, 2019 on Big Story, HealthXtra by Adekunbi Ero

Immediate past Governor of Delta State, Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan has expressed grief and shock on the death of Anthony Chucks Obuh, whom he said served him diligently and faithfully, first as Director in the office of Secretary to the State Government, and Permanent Secretary, Government House, Asaba. Obuh, a former governorship aspirant on the platform…

Tightening The Screws on Sex Offenders

December 10, 2019 on Big Story, HealthXtra by Martins Agbonlahor

The recently launched National Sex Offender Register in Nigeria is a welcome development, considering the fact that ‘one in four women is sexually abused in the country and worse still, before they attain the age of 18,’ as extrapolated from UNICEF. Even at that, this statistics seems a mere tip of the iceberg, as we,…

Bleaching for Beauty

November 23, 2019 on Big Story, HealthXtra by Timileyin Okunuga

Many dark-skinned people are obsessed with either bleaching or toning their skins with a view to enhancing their beauty despite the obvious dangers of the practice. At 15 she started applying bleaching cream ostensibly to enhance her beauty. For maximum effect, she relied heavily on what she believed to be the more active variety of…

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