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Ex-NAFDAC DG Dora Akunyili’s husband murdered in Anambra | Clinical Health Journal Unknown gunmen on Tuesday evening murdered Dr. Chike, husband to late former Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof. Dora Akunyili, at Umuoji in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State. As of the time of filing this story, details surr...

COVID-19: Fully vaccinated couple dies one minute apart | Clinical Health Journal A fully vaccinated married couple with underlying health conditions has died of COVID-19 a minute apart from each other. 59-year-old Cal Dunham and his 66-year-old wife Linda of Grand Rapids, Michigan, died on Sunday, despite being fully vaccinated for months and taking necessary precautions against...

COVID-19: 1.8m Nigerians fully vaccinated, says NPHCDA | Clinical Health Journal The National Primary Health Care Development Agency says over 1.8 million eligible people have been fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus six months after Nigeria commenced its vaccination exercise. This was disclosed by NPHCDA Executive-Director, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, in Abuja on Monday at the n...

Nigerians will have to learn to live with COVID-19, says Ihekweazu | Clinical Health Journal The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic had shown that COVID-19 is a disease, which Nigerians will have to learn to live safely with. Ihekweazu, said this on Monday in Abuja at the national briefing of the Presidential Steering Com...

COVID-19 kills 640 vaccinated England residents in six months | Clinical Health Journal At least 640 fully vaccinated people are reported to have died from COVID-19 in England in six months (January to July) accounting for just one percent of deaths, new figures have revealed According to a Monday publication by the Office for National Statistics, of the 51,281 people who died with the...

Couple threw party to welcome arrival of baby stolen from Kano hospital | Clinical Health Journal Kano State Police Command says it has arrested 22-year-old Maryam Sadiq and her husband, Abubakar Sadiq, for stealing a day-old baby boy from Muhammad Abdullahi Wase Teaching Hospital. A spokesperson for the command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, said Mary...

NMA reacts as Osun hospital slashes salary of doctors on maternity leave | Clinical Health Journal The Nigeria Medical Association has lampooned the management of Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital in Ile-Ife, Osun State over its random salary deduction of health workers on maternity leave. This is just as the South-West Zone association expressed concerns that the action has left a sca...

NCDC boss Ihekweazu bags WHO appointment, to resume Nov 1 | Clinical Health Journal The head of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekweazu, is set to assume duty as the Assistant Director-General of Health Emergency Intelligence. Ihekweazu is expected to assume his new duty at the Health Emergency Intelligence, which is a subsidiary of the World Health Organisation on...

COVID-19 Vaccination: Edo issues civil servants seven-day ultimatum | Clinical Health Journal Civil servants in the Edo Ministry of Health have been given a seven-day ultimatum to get vaccinated against the COVID-19 pandemic. The ultimatum was contained in a memo dated August 30, with reference number: HA.429/1/16 and issued by Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr Frederick Irabor. The me...

New Zealand records first COVID-19 death linked to Pfizer vaccine | Clinical Health Journal New Zealand’s Ministry of Health on Monday said it had registered the first death believed to be linked to injection with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. The ministry said in a statement that “The COVID-19 Vaccine Independent Safety Monitoring Board (CV-ISMB) has advised the Ministry of Health to e...

NDLEA intercepts drug kingpin with 87 ingested wraps of co***ne | Clinical Health Journal The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a drug kingpin, Mr Ibeh Ejike, at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, (NAIA) Abuja for ingesting 87 wraps of co***ne. The NDLEA spokesperson, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NA...