Susan Idoko, the Benue state COVID-19 index case, has threatened to sue the Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC if she is not released from the Abuja isolation center within the next seven days. Idoko has been having a faceoff with the government since she was diagnosed with the virus. She has been in isolation for 53 days now without showing any symptoms of the disease. She insists she doesn’t have the virus. The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire …
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has made a clarification of its role in combating the outbreak of diseases in the country. The health agency made the clarification after Chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi Jnr said he was discharged having contracted COVID-19 earlier without seeing his test result. In a tweet which served as a response to the media mogul’s disclosure, the NCDC stated that it coordinates the communication of results between testing laboratories and States, who then communicate with individuals. …
Chikwe Iheakweazu, the Director-General of the National Center for Disease Control today spoke on the between the ravaging viral disease, COVID-19 and Malaria. This comes after the chairman of DAAR communications, Raymond Dokpesi who was discharged from an Isolation center in Abuja on Thursday May 14, asked what the differences were because according to him, all the drugs given to him at the Isolation center were anti-malaria drugs. Dokpesi while speaking to newsmen after his discharge, said ”I still …
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has warned Nigerians against self-medication. The health agency said in its tweet that medicines given by authorised medical personnel to patients with diseases including COVID-19, are dependent on individual conditions. Nigerians were also warned against self-medication on another person’s prescription. The tweet reads; Remember, the medicines given by authorised medical personnel to patients with diseases including #COVID19, are dependent on individual conditions Please DO NOT engage in self-medication based on another person’s …
Dr Osagie Ehanire, Nigeria’s Minister of Health says Susan Okpe, the Benue state COVID-19 index case, has refused to take the final test to certify she does or doesn’t have the virus in her system. Okpe has been in contention with Health workers at the Abuja Isolation center as she has maintained that she doesn’t have the virus. Giving an update about her today, Ehanire who spoke at the daily briefing of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19, said …