Category Archives: HEALTH

Doctors without Borders shuts clinic in Borno

May 23, 2013 no comments

Aid organization Doctors Without Borders has said it is suspending its emergency health care operations in Borno state, where troops have intensified their raids on Boko Haram insurgents in their big...

A soda a day increases risk of kidney stones

May 22, 2013 no comments

Drinking a can of soda or other sugary drink a day could increase the risk of kidney stones by nearly a quarter, a new study finds. The study, published Wednesday in the Clinical Journal of the Ameri...

UNICEF says over 180,000 teenagers living with HIV in Nigeria

May 15, 2013 no comments

More than 180,000 teenagers are living with HIV in Nigeria, the United Nation Children Education Fund (UNICEF) said here on Tuesday. The figure was released during a national dialogue on adolescents ...

Doctors shut Maiduguri hospital over police assault

May 11, 2013 no comments

Doctors in the flashpoint city of Maiduguri have shut down main hospital in the Borno state capital, citing abuse at the hands of police as a major reason. The physicians told the BBC that policemen ...

“Virgin cleansing” – HIV positive father rapes 2-yea...

April 26, 2013 no comments

Here is some truly disturbing news. Police in Guateng are investigating a HIV positive father who allegedly raped his two-year-old daughter because he believed “sex with a virgin would cure him...

Nigeria to build hospital exclusively for snakebite patients

April 17, 2013 no comments

A local NGO are set to build a hospital in northern Nigeria that will exclusively treat snakebites, the cause of death for hundreds in the region. Voice of America reports that health officials have ...

Over 500 students suffer food poisoning in Cairo

April 2, 2013 no comments

More than 500 students from Cairo’s Al-Azhar University suffered food poisoning after eating at a student hostel, Egyptian Health Ministry reported on Tuesday. Media reports put the number of a...

Busted! Secondary school dropout played doctor at hospital for two mon...

March 27, 2013 no comments

Police in Akwa Ibom state have arrested Usen Effiong, who they say has been playing doctor, consulting at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital without the right qualifications. Effiong, a 25-year-...

Generator fumes kill two men in Bauchi

March 24, 2013 no comments

Two men living in the Bauchi suburb of Yelwa Makaranta were killed over the weekend by generator fumes they inhaled while working on a water well. The men, Ibrahim Jibrin, 37, and Usman Ali, 35, were...

Home brew kills 51 people in Libya

March 12, 2013 no comments

Libya’s health minister yesterday said 51 people have died over the past three days from drinking home-made alcohol that contained poisonous methanol. Nouri Doghman said another 330 people were...