Health
The fast: Stop if the baby’s health is at risk
With daily temperatures in Maiduguri soaring around 41°C to 43°C and the prolonged blackout – for more than three months now – many in the Muslim ummah are finding fasting […]
Malaria is a killer − but it’s preventable and curable
Left untreated, malaria can lead to mental illness and it can be fatal − but, although life-threatening, it is preventable and curable. Last Sunday was World Malaria Day. The World […]
Vaccination campaign to halt the spread of measles starts in Maiduguri
A vaccination campaign to halt the number of cases of measles – targeted at reaching thousands of residents, internally displaced persons and those living in host communities – started on […]
Urgent need for measles vaccination campaign
Measles − which can be serious and even fatal to small children – is spreading widely from house to house in internally displaced persons’ camps and host communities in the […]
Fear that polio could resurface
If parents stop getting their children vaccinated against polio, the paralysing and sometimes deadly virus could resurface. That was the main message coming from a three-day media dialogue held this […]
Scores of patients suffer while doctors strike
Thousands of patients in state-run hospitals around the country have been left unattended since doctors embarked on an indefinite strike for better wages on April 1. It is feared that […]
COVID-19 vaccine: Rather safe than sorry
It appears that most Maiduguri residents are convinced: The vaccine to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is harmless and there is no reason to doubt it and every reason to […]
Drink water – lots of it
With the temperature in Maiduguri reaching a scorching 43°C on Monday, and with no let-up in sight, doctors and medics have advised residents to drink as much clean water as […]
Vaccine is harmless and effective: Get inoculated now
Take the vaccine: It is harmless and there is absolutely nothing to fear from it and no reason to doubt it. That was the message from Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza, […]
Don’t doubt the vaccine, go and get it
Africa’s most populous country − with about 200-million people − received its first delivery of 4-million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday. Doctors, scientists and scholars in Borno State’s […]
