Abuja, Nigeria — Doctors in Nigeria are on strike over unpaid salaries and poor benefits. But the strike by some 40% of the country’s medical workforce comes amid a fresh wave of coronavirus infections, severely straining Nigeria’s health care system. Anabs Sara-Igbe was visiting Abuja’s National Hospital for a post-surgery appointment for the second time […]
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The government has cut down the cost of testing Covid-19 at the boarders, the Health Ministry has announced. Travellers will be required to pay only USD 50 instead of previous USD 100 charged for RT-PCR test and there will be zero charges for the Antigen Rapid Test. At the airport, travellers entering the country will […]
Rwanda has eased Covid-19 restrictions after a gradual a drop in infections with the positivity rate dropping from 10 to 4 percent. This has been attributed to the strict measures the country imposed, including lockdowns. The review of Covid-19 measures comes a week after the country resumed mass inoculation. Vaccinations had slowed down due to […]
MEC Madoda Sambatha continues his advocacy to accelerate registration for vaccination and assessment of compliance with covid-19 regulation in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District The Department of Health, MEC Madoda Sambatha will continue with his quest to drum-up support for the provincial vaccination programme as he embarks on another series of outreach programs to boost and […]
Health Professions Authority (HPA) Zimbabwe has urged people to get vaccinated at authorised healthcare institutions to avoid incorrect results which put their lives in danger. This comes as some pharmacies in Harare are selling substandard Covid-19 test kits not approved for use and putting lives of the public at risk if positive cases are reported […]
Sifelani Tsiko Agric, Environment & Innovations Editor Prominent specialist physician Dr Nelson Okwanga has died. He was 74. Mr Christopher Kateera, a close relative, told The Herald that Dr Okwanga succumbed to Covid-19 yesterday after battling the disease for three weeks at a hospital in the capital. “Dr Okwanga died last night around 10.30pm after […]
Presidential Adviser for Health and Preventive Affairs Awad Tageddin confirmed that Delta variant has not appeared in Egypt so far. Tageddin said in remarks to the Arabic-speaking Sky News satellite channel on Wednesday evening that most of the vaccines worldwide – which have been recently imported by Egypt – are effective in facing original and […]
The Coega Development Corporation (CDC) has paid tribute to two women who have been at the forefront of organisation’s efforts in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. This comes as South Africa commemorates Women’s Month under the theme, ‘The Year of Charlotte Mannya Maxeke: Realising Women’s Rights’, in recognition of the 150th birthday anniversary of Mme […]
Nedbank Group delivered a strong financial performance for the six months to 30 June 2021 as headline earnings increased by 148% to R5.3 billion off the low base in 2020 but remain 24% below first half 2019 levels. Significantly lower impairments, higher net interest margin and disciplined expense management boosted headline earnings. Underlying non-interest revenue […]
A team from the national Health Department accompanied by experts from the WHO have started the probe into the province’s sky-high Covid mortality rate. This was announced on Wednesday by health MEC Nomakhosazana Meth, who said: “The province is very concerned with the trend of high mortality rate among those infected with Covid-19 [particularly] in […]
Rundu — Nurses at the Rundu Intermediate Hospital are unhappy the health facility filled a vacancy of a chief registered nurse at the maternity ward without advertising the post. They are also not happy the hospital did not appoint one of the nurses that have worked in the ward for decades but chose one from […]
The weapon developed when the fight started was a concerted effort to ensure hand washing, the use of sanitisers, maintenance of safe distance, use of face mask, immediate contact tracing to avoid the spread of the illness and periodic fumigation of public places Foroyaa is aware of a workplace where traces of the virus have […]
At the launch of the prosthesis shop in Ikeja area of Lagos by the Care Organisation Public Enlightenment (COPE), a handful of breast cancer survivors reminisced about their pitiful ordeals following their diagnosis with breast cancer and mastectomies afterwards. While a few recollected how as young girls they couldn’t wait to attain puberty and have […]
The last time the country recorded a higher daily figure was on January 18, at the peak of the second wave of the disease. Nigeria on Wednesday recorded 790 cases of coronavirus disease, the nation’s highest daily figure within the last six months. According to the update by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), […]
As of August 12, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 7,119,131 while over 52,001,051 vaccinations have been administered across the continent. Reported deaths in Africa reached 180,014 and 6,249,763 people have recovered. South Africa has the most reported cases 2,554,240 and 75,774 people died. Other most-affected countries are Morocco (720,256), Tunisia (618,124), Ethiopia (286,286), Egypt (284,966), Libya (274,453) […]
The health department’s official Covid death toll for 2020 was 28,500. But this is less than half the actual Covid death toll for last year, Medical Research Council (MRC) and University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers explain in an article published in June. The official data, by and large, only include confirmed Covid deaths in […]
GOVERNMENT has approved the reopening of churches but only for fully vaccinated congregants. It has also sent out teams to assess the possibility of reopening of schools while hotels have been allowed to purchase vaccines for their employees in a raft of measures meant to ease the current Covid-19 lockdown. The measures were announced by […]
Breastfeeding provides essential nutrients to newborns and infants, which translate to proper growth and development from childhood to adulthood. There are many benefits to breastfeeding for both infants and mothers. These include, a reduced risk of infections, heart disease, obesity and others, for the infant and a reduced risk of breast and ovarian cancers, heart […]