GOMBE State Commissioner for Health Dr. Isa Umar said over the weekend in Gombe that about 100,000 women and children are benefiting from the Federal Government's free health care service in the state.

The commissioner made the statement while exchanging views with newsmen, saying about 10,000 selected pregnant women and children under the age of five from Akko, Shongom and Nafada had been ben
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A consultant radiation oncologist at the University College Hospital (UGH) Ibadan, Dr. Atara Ntekim, says the effect of breast cancer is getting worse in Nigeria as more than 50,000 women are diagnosed with the disease every year.
Speaking yesterday at the Pfizer Breast Cancer Roundtable with journalists in Lagos, Dr. Ntekim said breast cancer is the commonest form of cancer in Nigeria and kills
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A staff of Nigerian Prisons services at Kuje yesterday appealed to the public to help save his 129 months old baby from dying.

The staff, Patrick Teru, said his baby, Lucky Patrick was diagnosed at National Hospital of having cardiac abnormalities
“The doctor when he was seven months said he is suffering of Ventricular Septal defect as well as pulmonary Stenosis and will require open Heart Su
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A 25-year-old nursing mother has been bathed with acid for refusing to succumb for sex demand of a co-tenant.

The victim, Uzochukwu Ojukwu, who said that the co-tenant made the amorous move three months after she delivered her baby, alleged that her refusal did not go down well with her assailant.

According to her, after refus­ing his demand, everything she did in the yard became offens
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A medical doctor, Dr Zachaeus Asogun, was at the weekend kidnapped by gunmen in Benin City. Dr. Asogun, a consultant surgeon and Head of Depart­ment of Surgery, Central Hos­pital , Benin City, and Medical Director of Asogun Specialist Clinic, Benin was kidnapped on Saturday while attending to a patient in his clinic. Family sources told Daily Trust on phone that the kidnappers allowed them to s
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