KADUNA — A medical expert, Ifeanyi Kane-Aghadi, has said that patients who have been bitten by scorpions have a tendency to exhibit resistance to bupivacaine spinal block anesthesia. Kane-Aghadi, who is a medical expert at the Department of Anesthesia, Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital, Kaduna, said this on Tuesday in a presentation at the ongoing 2021 Nigerian Medical Asociation scientific conference in Kaduna. He said that there were reports of failed spinal anesthesia of patients as...

YOLA — Prof. Abdullahi Isa, Adamawa state Commissioner for Health and Human Services has confirmed the reemergence and detection of Circulating Vaccine Derived Poliovirus type 2 cases in the state. Isa disclosed this during the official flag-off of the first Round Outbreak Response immunization on Saturday in Yola. He described Vaccine Derived Poliovirus type 2 ( VDPV) as a strain of the weakened Poliovirus that was initially included in Oral Polio Vaccine ( OPV) that...

YOLA — Professor Abdullahi Isa, Adamawa commissioner for health and human services, says no fewer than 13 suspected cholera cases were recorded in the state. Isa confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday while giving updates on the cholera situation in the state, explained that three cases were confirmed to be positive, while 10 were found negative. “On June 30, 2021, a confirmed case of cholera was reported in Gogora...