He had been hospitalized in Lusaka, the country’s capital, since Monday for pneumonia.
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Abimbola made this known while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ibadan on Tuesday
UNICEF in a statement in Birnin Kebbi by its Communication, Advocacy and Partnership Specialist, Malam Rabiu Musa, said malnutrition, air pollution and lack of access to vaccines and antibiotics were among the drivers of preventable deaths from pneumonia, which killed a child every three minutes in the country.
Medical authorities in Wuhan, the central Chinese metropolis where the pneumonia was first identified in December, confirmed 136 new cases over the weekend, including a third death.
Maurizio Sarri will miss Juventus’ first two Serie A games of the season against Parma and his former club Napoli, as he recovers from pneumonia.
Sarri, a chain-smoking 60-year-old, who was appointed in June to replace Massimiliano Allegri, went down with flu last week, Juve said, and missed the friendly against third-tier Triestina on Saturday.
The 41-year-old was admitted on Friday after reportedly suffering from pneumonia. Hospital sources told Spanish media that Ronaldo left on Tuesday.
Newspaper Diario de Ibiza said the two-time Ballon d’Or winner and 2002 World Cup Golden Boot winner is currently in the intensive care unit at the private Policlinica Nuestra Senora del Rosario hospital.
Dr Emmanuel Oduh, the Acting Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency said stakeholders in the health sector must collaborate in the fight against pneumonia
“Force-feeding babies can cause foreign materials like foods or liquid into the lungs repeatedly and this can lead to pneumonia.”
Speaking on this initiative, the Medical Director of Sanofi Nigeria and Ghana, Dr. Fifen Inoussa, said: “Paediatrics is a priority for Africa because one child out of four in the world is African and 50 per cent of the worldwide infant mortality occurs on this continent
They are all avoidable and can be prevented through immunization and provision of nutritional supplements like Vitamin A. Other vaccine-preventable diseases include polio, whooping cough, hepatitis, diphtheria and neonatal tetanus
Dr. Femi Amao of the Shalom Medical Centre, Ibadan, Oyo State called for increased awareness of the causes and prevention of pneumonia among children under five years of age
Bakka said the corps member was on admission for two weeks at the Federal Medical Centre, Gusau, but died on Monday at the age of 29