Enugu commences second jabs of COVID-19 vaccines
Health officials urge residents to maintain COVID-19 preventive protocols even after receiving the vaccine. 2 min read
Enugu State on Tuesday commenced administering second jabs of the COVID-19 vaccine to residents, especially health workers, security officials, the elderly and critical leaders.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalled that the state government on March 8, received 65,400 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Abuja.
The vaccination began across the state on March 19.
Flagging-off the exercise in Enugu, the Commissioner for Health, Ikechukwu Obi, urged residents that took the first jab to endeavour to take the second jab to complete their dosage and “get protected”.
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Douglas Izuchukwu is a deaf rights advocate and a student of University of Ilorin, Kwara State. The 22-year-old special educator tells ALEXANDER OKERE about his passion for the inclusion of persons living with disabilities in society
As an advocate, why are you passionate about the education of the deaf and their inclusion?
If you go to Wikipedia, you will see the definition of “deaf education” which is the education of students with any degree of hearing loss or deafness which addresses their differences and individual needs. You will as well see the process involved. The education of the deaf in Nigeria needs to be fixed in such a systematic way that it would address the specific needs of deaf students. That is what I’m passionate about. I know some schools for the deaf where some teachers have no knowledge of sign language. Where teachers have no skills required to educate deaf students and they still work there, how best c
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Patients and their relatives , on Wednesday, protested against alleged poor food offered to patients and the poor sanitation at the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital at Park Lane, Enugu.
They also protested against alleged nonchalant attitude of medical workers in the way they attend to patients, especially those on emergencies, which had caused many death at the hospital.
The parents of a 15-month-old girl, Daniela, Mr and Mrs Leonard Onuchukwu, were said to have sparked the protest when they refused to pay the bill given to them, insisting that they would not pay the entire bill, because of the meals, which neither they nor their child ate because they were not fit even for dogs.
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Consultants have taken over the provision of skeletal services to patients following the ongoing strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), which enters the fifth day today.
Relatives have also intensified the evacuation of patients to private hospitals, THISDAY has learnt.
When THISDAY visited the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH), Bauchi and Federal Medical Centre in Azare, only very senior physicians and nurses were attending to patients.
Bauchi State branch Chairman of NARD, Dr. Muhammad Nur Algazali, said members of the union had withdrawn their services in compliance with the directive of the national body of the union.