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Another victim of police brutality, Tomori Gbolagade, recounted his ordeal to the Lagos Panel of Judiciary Inquiry on cases of police brutality on Wednesday.
The victim told the panel how he was shot by a drunk officer on September 30, 2011, while on his way home from work.
Mr Gbolagade, who worked as a visual effects expert, said the ordeal he was subjected to has compelled him to switch from using his right hand to the left “and the right side of his brain to the left, which has caused him great damage”.
Ordeal
Narrating the incident to the panel on Wednesday, Mr Gbolagade said on September 30, 2011, himself and friends worked late at the office, the following day being a national holiday to mark Nigeria’s independence.
The Lagos State Government has reactivated the Indo Isolation Centre at Anthony area, to create more bed spaces for severe to critical cases of COVID-19 patients in the state.
‘Observing safety protocols key to overcoming COVID-19 second wave’
Dayo Ojerinde
The Chief Medical Director of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, has advised Nigerians to continue to obey COVID-19 protocols in order to overcome the second wave of the pandemic.
Fabamwo said this in a statement titled, ‘LASUTH Re-emphasizes COVID-19 Second Wave…debunks Myth that the Pandemic is Over.’
The LASUTH CMD stressed the need for Nigerians to keep wearing their face masks, cultivate the habit of regular handwashing and to obey the social distancing advice.
“It has been clear for some weeks that Nigeria is experiencing the second wave of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Around eight in 1,000 babies are born with something wrong with their heart. This can sometimes be called a cardiac abnormality, congenital heart disease or congenital heart defect.
While most of these babies can survive and grow to adulthood, and may go on to have children themselves, experts say it is one reason why pregnant women must be mindful of their health while the gestation period lasts.
Experts say that if a child has a congenital heart defect, it means that the child was born with a problem in the structure of his or her heart.
By Chioma Obinna
As health authorities in Lagos continued to raise the alarm over increasing cases of COVID-19, Medical Guild has urged government to stop the importation of the new strain of the virus which “spreads easily and damages with increased morbidity and mortality”.
The medical body said its members had been seeing an increased incidence of persons presenting late to hospital where they become oxygen dependent which may result in worse outcomes.
The Chairman of the Guild, Dr Oluwajimi Sodipo, who is also the Head, Family Physician, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, insisted that Lagos and Nigeria at large must adopt a multipronged approach to stem the tide of the virus while reducing death from severe forms.