Accessing basic healthcare comes with a great cost for residents of Hungu, a village in Kano State, as they make do with a dilapidated primary health care centre with inadequate facilities. Hungu is a farming community with thousands of inhabitants.…
Many patients are losing their lives in hospitals because they cannot afford medical oxygen, investigation by Daily Trust Saturday revealed. Patients with certain complications like acute pneumonia, COVID—19, heart disease among others sometimes require the support of medical oxygen to…
Patients and caregivers at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) have described the recent electricity blackout in the hospital as very pathetic as the problem lingers. Despite generating millions of Naira in revenue, the situation in the hospital, according to some…
The Daily Trust Foundation, with support from MacArthur Foundation, has conducted a workshop on Fact-Checking and Verification. The workshop, which held at the Daily Trust Foundation Training Hall, began on Monday, May 24, 2021, and ended on Wednesday, May 26,…
The Daily Trust Foundation, with support from MacArthur Foundation, has organized a three-day workshop on multi-media reporting. The workshop held at the Daily Trust Foundation Training Hall from Monday, March 29, 2021 to Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The workshop was…
Elderly people in villages across the country have called on the federal government to give them special consideration in accessing the COVID-19 vaccine because of their vulnerability. Some of them said besides being very old, they had underlying illnesses like…
In the midst of the second wave of COVID-19, universities and other tertiary institutions resumed after months of closure. Authorities have tried to meet up with health protocols to ensure safety, but staff and students find it difficult to comply…
Though 70 percent of cancer patients need radiotherapy treatment, only three centers are functional in the country… Nigerians suffering from cancer have lamented the high cost of treatment and dearth of treatment facilities and specialists. The patients and medical experts,…
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Monday declared Kogi State as a high risk for the COVID-19 pandemic for refusing to acknowledge the existence of the disease, not reporting testing and not having isolation centres. Read more: https://dailytrust.com/covid-19-fg-declares-kogi-high-risk-warns-against-visiting-state
Mr. Bill Gates has through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation committed at least $1.75 billion to the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this interview with selected journalists from across Africa, the billionaire, who stepped down as chairman…
