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News Nigeria » Zamfara » Health: Nigeria: The Silent Return - How Diphtheria Killed 39 Children in Zamfara and Unicef, Health Ministry's Dash for Urgent Vaccination

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Published on: Tuesday 08 September 2026

The ward at the Infectious Disease Centre in Damba is quiet in a way that feels wrong. Fluorescent lights hum above rows of iron beds. Mothers sit on plastic chairs, cloths pressed to fevered ...

News Nigeria » Zamfara » Health: Nigeria: Zamfara Govt Overhauls Healthcare Delivery System, Begins Digitisation of General Hospitals

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Published on: Tuesday 08 September 2026

In a grand move to deepen transparency and improve healthcare service delivery, the Zamfara State Government has digitised the General Hospital Gusau as a first step of automating all general ...

News Nigeria » Zamfara » Health: 100 million people at risk of NTD in Nigeria — Zamfara commissioner

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Published on: Thursday 29 January 2026

The Zamfara state commissioner of health, Dr Nafisa Mohammed Maradun, has disclosed that in Nigeria alone, more than 100 million people are at risk of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). Nafisa ...

News Nigeria » Zamfara » Health: 950,000 women at risk of maternal deaths in Zamfara

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Published on: Monday 24 June 2024

Anka said this in Gusau on Monday at the opening ceremony of a five-day workshop on preventable maternal deaths, for health workers in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the ...

News Nigeria » Zamfara » Health: Cholera outbreak in northwest Nigeria kills eight, infects over 200

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Published on: Wednesday 27 August 2025

ABUJA (Reuters) -A cholera outbreak in Bukkuyum district of Zamfara state, northwest Nigeria, has claimed at least eight lives and infected over 200 people across 11 communities, residents and local ...

News Nigeria » Zamfara » Health: Zamfara recruits 1,793 health workers

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Published on: Wednesday 24 May 2023

The Zamfara State Government yesterday said it had recruited 1,793 health workers in the last one year. Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Aliyu Abubakar, stated this in Gusau at an event to celebrate ...

News Nigeria » Zamfara » Health: Zamfara gov’t overhauls healthcare delivery system, begins digitisation of general hospitals

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Published on: Tuesday 08 September 2026

In a grand move to deepen transparency and improve healthcare service delivery, the Zamfara State Government has digitised the General Hospital Gusau as a first step of automating all general ...