The Director-General of the NCDC, Dr. Jide Idris, who disclosed this on Monday in Abuja, revealed there are 53 fatalities.
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The Head of the Lagos State DNA and Forensic Centre, Dr Richard Somiari, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lagos.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris, made this known at a news conference in Lagos.
Idris disclosed this over the weekend while briefing newsmen on efforts made to improve on access and quality of healthcare in the State’s secondary and tertiary and health facilities
Already, two suspected cases have been confirmed by the State Government
Idris, alongside his counterpart from the Ministry of Information, Steve Ayorinde, made this known at a joint news conference in Lagos.
Ambode, who spoke at the twin events through the Secretary to the State Government, Tunji Bello, added that plans are at an advanced stage to upgrade various healthcare facilities across the state, which include secondary healthcare facilities at Apapa, Epe, Ifako Ijaye, Agbowa and Lagos Island Hospital in due course
The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, disclosed on Monday while giving an update on the outbreak of gastroenteritis in the School
Dr. Jide Idris, the Commissioner for Health, said this at the 2017 Ministerial Press Briefing of the Ministry of Health at Alausa, Lagos, to commemorate two years in office of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode
The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, made this known at a press briefing on mental health to commemorate the year 2017 World Health Day, with the theme: “Depression: Let’s Talk.”
The Nigeria Centre for Diseases Control had on April 7 released statistics which claimed that meningitis killed two people in the state
Briefing Government House Correspondents at the end of a meeting of the AXA Mansard Insurance Group with the State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, said the Government would provide the enabling environment for the private sector to participate in the scheme with the view to increasing access to healthcare delivery
A new strain of CSM causative agent, Neisseria Meningitides type C, which is slightly different from the causative agent of the seasonal CSM in Nigeria, has affected no fewer than 16 States in the country
The owner of the facility, who claimed to have studied Medicine in the Dominican Republic, but could not collect his certificate for financial reasons, said he had his “training” under one Dr. Godwin Kanu, a retired consultant traumatologist and orthopedist, for 14 years after his return to the country and since then had been practising medicine
The book is the first of its kind in Nigeria and developed by seasoned physicians and scholars from various medical disciplines
The keep-fit exercise took the bank’s workers, customers and members of the public through its office on Admiralty Way, Lekki, Victoria Island to IKoyi through the new suspended bridge back to the Admiralty Way office
The State Government, through LASUTH, also had its first successful Kidney Transplant carried out by the Hospital’s team of Urologists and Nephrologists in November 2015 and discharged the patient in good condition on December 1, 2015, while another transplant is being planned
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris, confirmed the development at a news conference in Lagos
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the yet-to-be identified disease, which started sometime in January 2016, had brought panic to the community predominantly dominated by the Egun people of the state
The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, who disclosed this in a statement in Lagos on Monday, also advised members of the public to avoid contact with chickens, ducks or other birds, including their feathers, faeces and other wastes in areas where the disease is known to exist