Category: Public Health
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Eko Hospital; Nigeria’s fore-most private multi disciplinary specialist hospital, founded in 1978 by joint Chief Medical Directors-A.C Eneli, S.F Kuku and A.A.A Obiora whose surnames provided the hospital’s name: ‘E’for Eneli, ‘K’ for Kuku and ‘O’ for Obiora. The hospital has made many giant strides. First, it is the only public quoted hospital in Nigeria,…
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Tomori Oyewale awardee of the 2002 Nigeria National Merit Award, NNMA. Tomori is a virologist at the World Health Organization, WHO, and he has carried out various researches in epidemiology and serology of viral Infections, both locally and internationally. The investiture of the professor was performed by President Obasanjo on December 11[i]. In his acceptance…
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Abayomi Oshin; first African to be trained as a physiotherapist. Oshin started the Physiotherapy department in University of Ibadan in October 1966 and degree programme is offered. Before he left in 1990, over 300 had graduated with degree certificates. Some of them became professors in the field, working all over the world. Born in Ijebu-Ode…
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Ebola virus in 2014 claimed about 11,000 lives in countries across Africa, including Nigeria. It all started on July 20 when an Asky Airline flight originating from Liberia landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. One of the passengers, a Liberian diplomat, Mr. Patrick Sawyer, collapsed and was rushed to the First Consultant Medical…
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Jane McCotter, nursing sister of Irish descent and founder of the Infant Welfare Center in Abeokuta was born in 1870. McCotter worked briefly in the colonial nursing service, but after an ideological conflict with British authorities who disfavoured ‘home birth’, she joined the Egba native authority. By 1955 when she died, McCotter had received several…
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Biola Alabi is a media expert, listed as a Young Global Leader in 2012. Alabi studied Public Health and Marketing at the University of Cincinnati. Before taking a position at the electronic media network M-Net, she had worked in the Corporate Sponsorship and Educational strategy unit of the non-profit educational organization behind the popular TV…
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Ashiru Oladapo is a Reproductive endocrinology expert and joint pioneer of IVF research in West Africa. Ashiru joined College of Medicine of the University of Lagos as lecturer in 1976. He was at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha from 1977, where he was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor in Reproductive Endocrinology in the department…