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As part of the effort of the Kebbi State Government to improve health care delivery at the grassroots level, Governor Abubakar Bagudu has approved the renovation of 36 Primary Healthcare Centres across the state.
This was announced by the Commissioner for Health, Jafar Muhammad, who said the renovation of the 36 PHCs was under the auspices of the Saving One Million Lives Programme in the state towards achieving universal healthcare coverage for all.
He said, “Already, 134 PHCs have been revitalised towards improving quality of healthcare service at the grassroots level.
“The renovation of the 36 PHCs is going to improve healthcare services at the grass-roots level.”
Muhammad added that the renovation of the PHCs would bring about quality service, among others at the grassroots.
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As part of the effort of the Kebbi State Government to improve health care delivery at the grassroots level, Governor Abubakar Bagudu has approved the renovation of 36 Primary Healthcare Centres across the state. This was announced by the Commissioner for Health, Jafar Muhammad, who said the renovation of the 36 PHCs was under the…

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No fewer than 100 women with Vesico Vaginal Fistula have enjoyed free surgical intervention in Maiduguri, Borno State.
 The gesture was sponsored by the North-East Development Commission and the Borno State Government.
The women had their Fistula repairs in successful corrective surgeries at the State Specialist Hospital, Maiduguri at the flag-off flagged off a Free Fistula Repair Campaign Project in Maiduguri.
The wife of the Borno State Governor, Dr. Falmata Zulum, flagged off the ceremony at the Conference Hall, State Specialist Hospital in Maiduguri.
Zulum, who was represented by the state Commissioner for Health, Juliana Bitrus, thanked NEDC and other development partners for complementing efforts of the state government in the provision of health care services to the people.
She said, “This intervention is timely, as most women who are vulnerable due to activities of insurgency and the persistent poverty, which have caused a lot of women to fall victims to VVF, would benefit from the corrective surgery project.”
She appealed to the beneficiaries to stay away from sex in the next one year to enable them to have total healing.
								
									
										
										
											
										
										
										
											
										
									
								
							
The NEDC Board Chairman, Major General Paul Tarfa (retd.), who was represented by the Board member North-West zone, Hajiya Asmau Muhammadu said, “Statistics indicate that there are about 250,000 women awaiting repair in Nigeria, out of which only 3,000 are fortunate to be attended to annually.
“12,000 new cases develop every year with a large number coming from the North-East due to the insecurity and increased poverty, which further hindered access to health care.”
Tarfa said it was unfortunate that women who experienced obstetric fistula suffer dejection from members of society.
“It is, therefore, important that all efforts are made to bring succour to these vulnerable group of women to enable them to pick the pieces of their lives, by offering them a new lease for meaningful existence within their respective communities,” he said.
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100 women get VVF operations in Maiduguri

The Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Tuesday disclosed plans by the state government to take delivery of medical equipment worth N1.5bn as part of efforts to boost health care delivery in the state.
Fayemi said his administration had concluded plans to build an Intensive Care Unit and a new laboratory in the premises of the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti.
The governor, who spoke at the opening of the 2021 Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference of the Nigerian Medical Association, Ekiti State chapter, said that his administration was about to complete the Dental and Ophthalmology buildings at EKSUTH.
Fayemi, who spoke on the theme of the AGM, ‘Healthcare financing and Universal Healthcare Coverage’, hailed NMA for contributing immensely to improving healthcare delivery in the country.
He said his administration would, in a couple of months, bring in equipment worth over N1.5bn to the hospitals; saying, “CT scan, ultrasound, various equipment are coming into the various hospitals in addition to the ongoing renovation of all the general hospitals in the local government areas.
“That is what we have also been doing in the primary health facilities across the length and breadth of the state; we are also equipping them as well in the various Local Government Areas.”
The NMA State Chairman, Dr Kayode Aribiyi, said the AGM was structured to address and unravel funding avenues needed to provide expected health care services to the people of Ekiti and to ensure that the concerns of medical doctors and health care workers were taken into consideration.
								
									
										
										
											
										
										
										
											
										
									
								
							
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The Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Tuesday disclosed plans by the state government to take delivery of medical equipment worth N1.5bn as part of efforts to boost health care delivery in the state. Fayemi said his administration had concluded plans to build an Intensive Care Unit and a new laboratory in the premises…

Fayemi to take delivery of N1.5bn medical equipment

The Chief Medical Director of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, has said about 80 per cent emergency cases coming to the hospital are not patients that should be referred to the health care service provider.
Fabamwo, at a media parley, said the hospital had a 750-bed capacity to admit patients, adding that construction work of a 200-bed facility was going on.
“We have 750-bed capacity at the moment if we include paediatrics and maternity beds. Reasonably, okay for a teaching hospital, but for the kind of demands and megacity we are serving, we need more. For instance, the emergency room is always filled up unless some patients get better and are transferred to the wards.
“What we find interesting is that about 80 per cent of cases that are brought to LASUTH as emergencies are not really tertiary cases. They are cases that could have been referred to any of our 27 general hospitals. We are happy that people have confidence in us and we would really have loved to be able to take as many as possible patients,” the CMD said.
Fabamwo also stressed the importance of public-private partnerships in delivering quality health care to the people.
He said some of the ongoing projects in the hospital were being financed through the public-private partnership model.
Fabamwo added that an endoscopy suite as well as an oxygen plant which would enhance sufficiency and save more patients were on the verge of being completed.
								
									
										
										
											
										
										
										
											
										
									
								
							
“The endoscopy suite will have eight renal dialysis units, a cardiac catheterisation laboratory and private rooms to cater for the patients.
“Cardiac catheterisation laboratory is a special hospital room where a doctor performs minimally invasive tests and procedures to diagnose and treat cardiovascular diseases,” the CMD said.
The LASUTH CMD noted that pulmonary embolism, heart attack and hemorrhagic stroke were some of the major causes of sudden deaths among the populace.
“Pulmonary embolism is when one or more arteries in the lung become blocked by a blood clot, usually such a patient has a short time to survive. We have interventional cardiologists who can conduct procedures to remove the clot in a pulmonary embolism patient and even, myocardial infarction patients.
“Before setting up this our laboratory, our interventional cardiologists have been performing these surgeries in the past, although it was under a less than ideal condition. Having these laboratories would save more lives and make life easier for the doctors and the patients,” Fabamwo said.
The hospital’s Director, Clinical Services and Training, Dr Adebowale Adekoya, said the various projects embarked upon by the hospital were to ensure affordability and accessibility to quality health care for the populace.
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The Chief Medical Director of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, has said about 80 per cent emergency cases coming to the hospital are not patients that should be referred to the health care service provider. Fabamwo, at a media parley, said the hospital had a 750-bed capacity to admit patients,…

80% of emergencies brought to LASUTH not tertiary cases – CMD

A sexual and reproductive health expert, Dr. Yemi Adeyemi says there is no scientific evidence that vaginal steaming helps to reduce menstrual cramps or improve fertility.
 According to Dr. Adeyemi, vaginal steaming is an age-old practice that involves sitting or squatting over a bowl of hot water infused with herbs, noting that many people claim it helps to cleanse the vagina, ease menstrual cramps and improve fertility.
 Speaking with PUNCH HealthWise, she said it is believed that steaming will increase blood supply to the vagina to help deal with menstrual cramps, increase fertility, and enhance the health of the vagina.
 “However there is no scientific study to prove these claims. Sometimes, in medicine, we allow women to do vaginal steaming, especially after delivery, to help the healing of the wound in the vagina but we don’t say you should do it without any reason because the issue with it is that there are so many consequences, like burns.
 “There was a reported case of a woman who sustained burns following vaginal steaming in an attempt to reduce vaginal prolapse,” she said.
 Adeyemi added that the vagina is a self-cleansing organ and does not require a steam clean.
 She pointed out that hot steam could also be dangerous to sensitive vaginal tissues.
								
									
										
										
											
										
										
										
											
										
									
								
							
 “The vagina is a very sensitive place, it cleans itself. So if you buy products that irritate the vagina rather than help it, it can change the Ph of the vagina and predispose the woman to yeast infection.
 “When it comes to maintaining the vagina, you need to eat the right fruits &#8211; there are fruits that can help to keep the vaginal pH good.Wear clean and right underwear and ensure you clean up after sexual intercourse,” she said.
 A pH level measures how acidic or alkaline a substance is, on a scale of zero to 14.
 “The pH of the vagina has to be preserved to prevent infections. pH is how acidic or alkaline something is and the vagina has to be acidic. The pH level is between 3.8 and 4.5.
 According to a study published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada, a 62-year-old woman suffered second-degree burns from vaginal steaming.
 The study, authored by Magali Robert, of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, noted that vaginal steaming has gained increased popularity as a method to achieve empowerment by providing vaginal tightening and to “freshen” the vagina.
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 A sexual and reproductive health expert, Dr. Yemi Adeyemi says there is no scientific evidence that vaginal steaming helps to reduce menstrual cramps or improve fertility.  According to Dr. Adeyemi, vaginal steaming is an age-old practice that involves sitting or squatting over a bowl of hot water infused with herbs, noting that many people claim…

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Health experts have warned that smoking shisha is far more dangerous to health than smoking cigarettes.
The experts stressed that contrary to the belief held by many people that shisha is less harmful than cigarette, a puff of shisha contains more toxins than a cigarette.
 Shisha is a form of tobacco smoking that has become fashionable in society, with manywho do not smoke cigarettes embracing it. It is considered a better alternative to cigarettes. It is also called hookah, waterpipe, or goza.
 According to news-medical.net – an online medical media site &#8211; the practice of smoking shisha involves burning charcoal in order to heat up a special preparation of tobacco (shisha) which often contains molasses, honey or flavourings.
 When the shisha is heated up, smoke is produced that bubbles down through a container of water and into a long hose-like tube, fitted with a mouthpiece.
 However, public health experts have warned that smoking shisha puts people at risk of the same health complications as cigarette smokers, if not more.
 A public health expert, Dr. Timothy Obembe in an interview with PUNCH HealthWise said smoking Shisha is worse because the smoker is smoking unfiltered smoke, unlike cigarettes.
								
									
										
										
											
										
										
										
											
										
									
								
							
 “In cigarettes you have the filter within the cigarette so what the smoker is actually inhaling is filtered smoke but shisha does not have any filter, so what you are inhaling is the direct smoke, which is more disastrous and harmful to the human body,” he said.
In addition to this, the World Health Organisation says that in a typical one-hour shisha smoking session, users may inhale 100 to 200 times the amount of smoke they would inhale from a single cigarette.
 Also, WHO added that the smoke produced, even after it has been passed through water, contains high levels of toxic compounds which include carbon monoxide, heavy metals and cancer-causing chemicals.
 Also, in a single water pipe session, users are exposed to up to nine times the carbon monoxide and 1.7 times the nicotine of a single cigarette.
 Obembe, who is a public health specialist at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, also pointed out that people who smoke shisha feel that it helps their social life.
 “A lot of people who smoke it feel like they have psychological benefits attached to it.
 “Some of them who use it claim that psychologically it makes them feel at home. They feel it helps them connect better with people socially.
						
							
								
								
									
									
								
								
								
							
						
					
 “They claim these to be the mental benefits but when it comes to health itself, there are no benefits attached to it,” Obembe clarified.
 Also speaking, a Professor of Public Health, Dr. Tanimola Akande in agreement said there is no practical health benefit in smoking shisha.
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Health experts have warned that smoking shisha is far more dangerous to health than smoking cigarettes. The experts stressed that contrary to the belief held by many people that shisha is less harmful than cigarette, a puff of shisha contains more toxins than a cigarette.  Shisha is a form of tobacco smoking that has become…

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As cholera outbreak claims over 325 lives across the country, health experts are warning that Lagos – Nigeria’s commercial city &#8211; may soon see a sudden rise in the number of cholera cases in some of its communities due to poor sanitation and hygiene practices. ANGELA ONWUZOO reports
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said that between January 2021 and June 27, a total of 14,343 suspected cases of cholera were reported from 15 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
 The acute diarrhoeal infection, NCDC said, has also killed 325 people.
 The agency equally revealed that 27.6 per cent of victims across the country are those in the five to 14 years age bracket.
 The affected states, NCDC said, are Benue, Delta, Zamfara, Gombe, Bayelsa, Kogi, Sokoto, Bauchi, Kano, Kaduna, Plateau, Kebbi, Cross-River, Nasarawa, Niger and the FCT.
 However, PUNCH HealthWise gathered that since the NCDC released its report about two weeks ago, more deaths have been recorded from cholera in the listed states and the FCT.
 The FCT Minister of State, Dr.RamatuTijjaniAliyu, had on Thursday announced that the death toll from cholera had reached 60 in Abuja.
								
									
										
										
											
										
										
										
											
										
									
								
							
The minister also said suspected cases of cholera had risen from 604 to 698 within 72 hours.
 Also, the Enugu State Ministry of Health recently confirmed that there is a cholera outbreak in New Artisan Market, Enugu, which resulted in the death of seven people in the market, with 19 persons identified with the symptoms of loose stool and vomiting.
 According to the NCDC and the Lagos State Ministry of Health, Lagos State has not officially recorded any cholera case so far.
Health experts are, however, warning that Lagos may not escape the cholera outbreak already ravaging many states in the country, noting that poor sanitation and blocked drainage channels that have become a common sight, making the state prone to an outbreak.
  Our correspondent’s visit to some communities in Lagos revealed that there are still many areas in the city without toilet facilities and access to potable water.
Not aware of cholera outbreak in Lagos –Government
Speaking in an interview with PUNCH HealthWise, Chairman of Lagos State Primary Healthcare Board, Prof. Akin Osibogun said that he won’t be surprised if there are reported cases of cholera in the state.
						
							
								
								
									
									
								
								
								
							
						
					
 Prof. Osibogun who is a former Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, however, added that he is not aware of any confirmed case.
 WHO on cholera outbreak
 According to the World Health Organisation, cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.
 This bacterium, the United Nations health agency said, is usually found in water or food sources contaminated by faeces from a person infected with cholera.
 WHO notes that cholera is most likely to be found and spread in places with inadequate water treatment, poor sanitation, and inadequate hygiene.
  It warns that cholera can kill within hours if left untreated.
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 A visit by our correspondent to Ezeagu community, Ajegunle, Lagos, located in the Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government Area of the state, revealed that many residents of the area do not have access to clean water and toilet facilities.
 Our correspondent also found that the Ezeagu community environment is a breeding ground for cholera and other hygiene-related infections. The area is surrounded by a canal covered with overgrown grasses and refuse.
 Worst still, heaps of refuse occupied good portions of the environment, with the few available gutters in the area blocked with refuse.
 PUNCH HealthWise further observed that most of the bathrooms in the area are located on top of a heap of refuse and close to the stinking canal that contains human and animal faeces.
 Some of the residents of the area who spoke with PUNCH Healthwise, however, claimed there are no suspected cases of cholera in the area.
 No building in Ezeagu community has toilet facilities- Residents
 A 45-year-old resident and father of three, Mr.Fatai Lamide told PUNCH HealthWise that no building in the community has toilet facilities.
						
							
								
								
									
									
								
								
								
							
						
					
 The Oyo State-born mechanic said, “We don’t have toilet in this area, including our compound. This canal that you see serves as toilet to all of us living in this area. We defecate inside nylon and throw it inside the canal.
 “For people that don’t want to use nylon, they have a special bucket that they use after which they pour it inside the canal too.
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…Says there is nothing like toilet infection
 Physicians have said that there is nothing like toilet infection, noting that infections that women often assume they picked up through the use of toilets are pelvic inflammatory disease, vagina candidiasis and other infections.
According to the physicians, most of the infections that are referred to as “toilet infections” are contracted from the poor personal and sexual hygiene of some women.
 Speaking with PUNCH Healthwise in separate interviews, the physicians – Resident Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Dr. Samuel Illikannu; and Resident Family Doctor at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile Ife, Dr. Michael Omenugha, explained that some of the conditions that women often call toilet infections are contracted through wrong care of the private part.
 Illikannu said, “For us, in obstetrics and gynaecology we don’t say toilet infection.
 “It is a street slang. We don’t have anything in the textbooks that is referred to as toilet infection. There is no such terminology.
 “We have other terminologies like when you say someone has vagina candidiasis or pelvic inflammatory disease.
								
									
										
										
											
										
										
										
											
										
									
								
							
 “Those are what people term toilet infection but they are not really toilet infection.
 “I don’t think the terminology ‘toilet infection’ is a standard terminology.”
 Explaining, the doctor said that the itching and burning sensations that women experience are usually due to infection in their private part.
 “In fungal infection, for instance, the vagina has a normal vagina flora – bacteria &#8211; that is naturally there. We have the lactobacillus, which helps to reduce colonisation by other colonisers.
 “So, lactobacillus is supposed to be predominant in the woman’s genital tract but other things can alter the milieu of that lactobacillus causing a preponderance of other organisms.
 “So, when say a woman douches &#8211; putting hands inside her private part and washing out everything &#8211; both the mucus and things that are naturally there to help curtail infections are destroyed, as the normal vagina flora is disturbed.
 “That is why we don’t encourage women to touch their vagina,” Illikannu said.
						
							
								
								
									
									
								
								
								
							
						
					
 The doctor also noted that abusing antibiotics and other over-the-counter medications could cause the destruction of the normal flora in the vagina.
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How women mistake pelvic inflammatory disease, STDs for toilet infection –Physicians

Residents of Oriba community in the Epe Local Government Area of Lagos State are facing a tough time with the complete absence of basic health facilities. LARA ADEJORO reports how residents of this off-grid community across the river are surviving with a century-old abandoned health centre. 
Journeying through the waters from Itokin to Oriba can be a perilous trip, especially for first-time visitors. It usually takes a couple of men to push a canoe off the shoreline to the deep river to launch a 45-minute ride to the community.
Beside the river is the Flight 086 Memorial Arcade that the Lagos State Government built in 1996, in memory of the victims of the ill-fated ADC aircraft Boeing 727-231.
When our correspondent paid a visit to the community, the stark realities of a locality without a health facility was witnessed right from the beginning of the journey
Inside the canoe boarded by our correspondent was a shrouded corpse, accompanied by family members on their way to Oriba. The corpse was a male.
The corpse was their brother &#8211; ShamsudeenYinusa &#8211; who had died early that morning, after being rushed in a canoe from Oriba to Agbowa General Hospital, Agbowa, Lagos.
According to the family members, Yinusa started vomiting in the night, and because Oriba has no doctor or nurse or a functional health centre, he was rushed to Agbowa but eventually died.
								
									
										
										
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Health is no wealth for residents of the Oriba community. Same goes for more than 25 other villages depending on Oriba, such as Lamodi, Ibon, Oko-Abe, Ito-Omu, Orepete, Ladeba, Ipesu, Gadangba, Aba Itun, among others.
These communities, reeling under deprivation, poverty and hunger, only have their fishing and farming enterprise to cling on to.
Aside from a public primary and secondary school, they are disconnected from basic life amenities such as potable water, electricity and a functional primary health centre.
The late Yinusa, in his 50s, happens to be one of the victims of the non-existence healthcare infrastructure in Oriba.
Life is uncertain
As narrated to PUNCH Healthwise, on June 13, 2021, Yinusa had retired to his house around 11 pm, after spending some time with his friends. He had hoped he would hand over the canoe he was constructing to his customer the next day when he suddenly fell ill.
He had rolled from his bed to the floor while gasping for breath, PUNCH HealthWise learnt. His family members and neighbours rallied around to save him but they could do nothing in the absence of a public health facility.
						
							
								
								
									
									
								
								
								
							
						
					
They had all stayed awake until 5 am the next day before they sailed him with a canoe to Agbowa General Hospital.
It takes over an hour to travel from Oriba toAgbowa. Yinusa died that evening.
“He was not sick; he was working on a canoe that day before he came back and was chatting with us before he went to sleep,” his relative, OwodeAkeem, said.
“But when his room partner went home around 3 am, he found him on the floor and he had vomited on the floor.
“That was when he screamed and alerted us. We did our best to revive him but nothing more could be done.
“If there had been a hospital here, he wouldn’t have died. We would have taken him to the hospital.
“It was not until yesterday morning around 5 am that we took him to Agbowa General Hospital but unfortunately, he died,” said Akeem.
				
					
						
						
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Yinusa’s tragic death is an insight into how residents of Oriba die from treatable health conditions, as they are unable to get the medical attention they need.
According to PUNCH Healthwise findings, two weeks before Yinusa’s death, the community had lost another man, Mr. LawalAshamu.
OlatunjiOlorunsanya, who is Ashamu’s grandson, said he had been at a meeting inEpe on that fateful day when he was called that Baba was feverish.
“It was on a Sunday and I was about to come to see him when I was called. I learnt he passed on 30 minutes after the call.
“Had it been that the primary health centre we have here was functional, they might have saved his life,” said Olorunsanya.
Babies born in canoes
If the situation is bad for those who suddenly fell ill, it is most times worse for pregnant women who need ante-natal and post-natal care. They are left with no option than to seek help from traditional birth attendants or give birth to their babies while being sailed in a canoe to the nearest health centre.
						
							
								
								
									
									
								
								
								
							
						
					
AsisatRasaq, 25, is one of such women, as she recently birthed her twins in a canoe.
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Oriba: Lagos community where women give birth in canoes, residents drink poop-contaminated water

Medical and nutrition experts have said that there is no scientific evidence to the claim by some Nigerians that the consumption of dog meat cures malaria.
The experts urged Nigerians with fever to first go for a medical test to confirm they have malaria and, if confirmed, seek appropriate treatment.
According to them, the only known treatment option for malaria in medical practice is the use ofantimalarials, advising that people must confirm that they have malaria before embarking on treatment.
PUNCH HealthWise gathered that over 9,000 people around the world have signed a petition to stop Nigerians from eating dogs.
The petition, which was started over a year ago by Natasha Choolun, a UK-based international animal rights activist, only began to gain momentum recently, after many Nigerians lent their voices and signatures to the campaign.
The campaign, which is hosted on Change.org is titled: “Stop Nigeria’s Barbaric Dog Meat Industry”.
The petitioner, Ms. Choolun, said the dog meat trade has gained economic value in Nigeria, as neighbouring countries like Niger, transport the meat into the country to meet the growing needs.
								
									
										
										
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However, there are some Nigerians who are against the petition. They claimed that eating dog meat cures malaria.
But speaking in an interview with PUNCH HealthWise, a renowned malaria expert and researcher, Prof. OlugbengaMokuolu, said there is no link between eating dog meat and cure for malaria.
Mokuolu, who is the National Technical Director at the National Malaria Elimination Programme, said, “I am not aware of any such relationship between eating dog meat and cure for malaria.
“There is no rational basis for it and there is no logic from my basic knowledge.
“The treatment for malaria is to use the antimalarials. Any other type of treatment is unknown to medical practice.
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Medical and nutrition experts have said that there is no scientific evidence to the claim by some Nigerians that the consumption of dog meat cures malaria. The experts urged Nigerians with fever to first go for a medical test to confirm they have malaria and, if confirmed, seek appropriate treatment. According to them, the only…

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