Nigeria News » Borno News Nigeria » Borno » Health: Diphtheria: Kano, Borno, Plateau, five others contribute 98% of confirmed cases in Nigeria — NCDC
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said that eight states in the country account for 98 per cent of the confirmed cases of diphtheria, a vaccine-preventable disease.
News Nigeria » Borno » Health: Nigeria Is Wild Poliovirus Free. What Next?
Blog - On August 25, 2020 Nigeria and the African continent received what was undoubtedly cheering news amid a very turbulent year -- the country and the continent are officially wild poliovirus free.
News Nigeria » Borno » Health: Pregnancy has become a nightmare for many women in Nigeria's conflict-hit north
KONDUGA, Nigeria — Aisha Muhammed was in the third trimester of her pregnancy when she had the convulsions and high blood pressure of eclampsia, a leading cause of maternal death. Her village's only ...
News Nigeria » Borno » Health: Nigeria’s conflict-hit Borno state battles cholera outbreak that has killed 74
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A cholera outbreak in northeastern Nigeria has killed 74 people and infected more than 7,000 others since it started in early May, medical charity Doctors Without Borders ...
News Nigeria » Borno » Health: A third of health facilities in Nigeria's insurgency-hit Borno state destroyed - WHO
LAGOS (Reuters) - A third of 743 health facilities have been destroyed in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, the area worst hit in a seven-year insurgency by Islamist Boko Haram militants, the World ...