Amputation is not the end of the road
“These days, no one should feel helpless after losing a leg, or think that you cannot earn a living again. You can give birth if you are a woman, you can do any job that someone with all limbs can do, all it takes is confidence that you can make it.” says Nishimwe. Article 28 January 2021 Rwanda
For 26-year old Nishimwe Nyiramahirwe, there is no limit to ability after amputation.
The mother of two, lives in Kinyinya sector, around 10 kms from the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK), a distance that takes more than 2 hours on foot. The distance has always been a challenge for Nishimwe because public transport in the area is not easily accessible.
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Osun State police command has arrested two middle-aged men, Usman Muyideen and Isa Memudu in connection with kidnapping and killing of two kids identified as Thompson Onibokun and one Samson whose ages were put as 13 and 12 years of age.
While parading the murders at the state Police command headquarters in Osogbo on Friday, the state police Commissioner, CP Olawale Olokode told newsmen that, the evil perpetrators who were residing at Durojaye street, Zone 8 area, Iludun, Osogbo, carried out the inhuman act on the 28th of January, this year.
According to him, “the suspects confessed to have conspired together to kidnap and kill the victims on the said date and bodies of the two kids have been recovered inside the bush around Oke-Baale area, Osogbo where they dumped them.”
Igbinedion University performs stem cell transplant as medical director appeals for drugs waiver Igbinedion University performs stem cell transplant as medical director appeals for drugs waiver
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Worried by the high cost of the treatment of sickle cell disorders and other cancer-related ailments in Nigeria, the Chief Medical Director of Igbinedion University Teaching Hospital (IUTH), Prof Godwin Bazuaye has called on the federal government to grant a waiver for transplant drugs so as to reduce the cost of treatment.
Buoyed by the successful first stem transplant breakthrough carried out at Igbinedion University Teaching Hospital (IUTH) Okada, Edo state, Bazuaye who spoke in Benin yesterday said stem cell transplantation is a cutting edge medicine that takes two to three months.
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