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  • Massive protests in India over alleged rape, murder of doctor

    Massive protests in India over alleged rape, murder of doctor

    Thousands of people protested in the eastern city of Kolkata to condemn the rape and murder of a doctor in a state-run hospital that also provoked demonstrations across India demanding better safety for women.

    The protests were held at more than 100 locations across Kolkata and spread to surrounding towns in the state of West Bengal late on Wednesday and rallies took place in several other Indian cities early into Thursday morning.

    The 31-year-old trainee doctor was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, her brutalised body discovered last week.

    Large crowds of women and men marched through the streets of Kolkata, with a candlelight rally at midnight coinciding with the start of India’s Independence Day celebrations on Thursday.

    The protesters in Kolkata and other cities, who marched under the slogan “reclaim the night”, called for a wider tackling of violence against women and held up handwritten signs demanding action.

    “We want justice,” read one sign at a Kolkata rally. “Hang the rapist, save the women,” read another.

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    Many government hospitals in cities across India suspended all services except emergency departments earlier this week, as junior doctors sat outside in protest, demanding justice for the victim.

    “Doctors nationwide are questioning what is so difficult about enacting a law for our security,” Dhruv Chauhan, from the Indian Medical Association’s Junior Doctors’ Network, told the Press Trust of India news agency. “The strike will continue until all demands are formally met.”

    “It is not just about one night. Every night, women should have this freedom and choice to go out, so that in future no girl child’s parents have to think in case it gets late in the evening, whether their child shall return home safe or not,” Shalini Datta, one of the demonstrators, told The Telegraph newspaper, which is based in Kolkata.

    Tanushree Das attended one rally with her daughter. “I believe the night is not just for men to enjoy, women also have equal rights. We have come out to claim this space for ourselves so that women no longer have a sense of fear associated with nights,” she said.

    Newsnow

  • Doctor seeks healthy lifestyle

    Doctor seeks healthy lifestyle

    Cardiac surgeon and consultant in robotic cardiac surgery,  Dr. Varun Bansal, has advocated regular check ups and healthy lifestyle to decrease mortality rate.

    Bansal said congenital heart disease is a problem and can be treated by periodic or transcatheter options.

    He noted the increase in cardio heart disease is multifactorial due to diets habit change, stress, increase in diabetic population because of smoking, lifestyle changes.

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    He advised cardio exercises. “Running, jogging, cycling, swimming, aerobics, walking can control blood pressure”, he said.

    Speaking on minimally invasive or robotic cardiac surgery, Bansal said: “… It is doing the heart surgery for coronary arteries, the blood vessels of the heart or valves of the heart or tumors or even congenital heart diseases in adults when there is hole in the heart without opening the chest.

    “The problem or the fear of people when they go for heart surgery is the long cut on the body, weight on the chest or on the legs. In robotics, we don’t have to do that we can go into the chest through small incisions of around eight millimeters.

    “We access the heart from outside, in between the ribs. There is no ribs spreading or breaking, no cutting of the bone and the patient gets the same surgery without complication. There is less bleeding, not pain, and goes home in two to three days. Even blood transfusion rates are less…’’  

  • Medical doctor bags two years in jail for stealing hospital beds in A’Ibom

    Medical doctor bags two years in jail for stealing hospital beds in A’Ibom

    The High Court of Akwa Ibom State sitting in Eket has sentenced a medical doctor, Nwaopara Adolphus Uche to two years in prison for stealing hospital beds.

    Doctor Uche was said to have stolen the beds from Immanuel General Hospital and Immanuel Psychiatric Hospital all in Eket and taken them to his private clinic.

    He was said to have used his position as the Medical Superintendent of Immanuel Psychiatric Hospital to commit the crime.

    The court presided over by Hon. Justice Nsemeke Daniel convicted the 39-year-old doctor, a native of Mbiere in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State, on a two-count charge of stealing and conspiracy.

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    Also convicted to one year imprisonment each were: Kubiat Anthony Isidore, a 28-year-old welder from Ikot Idim in Odoro Ikot, Essien Udim Local Government Area, who conspired with the doctor and Felix Samuel Ekwere, a 35-year-old security man in Immanuel General Hospital, from Ekpene Obo in Esit Eket who was caught moving out some of the stolen hospital beds from the hospital at night.

    Samuel is said to have confessed to the Police that it was the convicted Medical Superintendent who sent him.

    They were prosecuted by the State through the Ministry of Justice in charge number HEK/13C/2023.

  • Doctor convicted for professional misconduct

    A medical doctor, Dr Nwikwu Vitalis has been found guilty of professional negligence and thereby suspended from practice for six months.

    The sentence, according to Chairman of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) Tribunal, Prof. Abba Waziri Hassan, commences from 30 November 2016.

    The accused who has been on suspension since 2016, it is assumed that has served out his sentence.

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    Vitalis was brought to the tribunal on one count charge of professional negligence for leaving his clinic open for service without any trained hand to attend to patients, leading to the death of a patient, who came for treatment in his absence.

    Vitalis, who has been on suspension since 2016, pleaded not guilty when the charge was read to him in April.

    The Tribunal had convicted two other doctors on Monday for professional negligence and were slammed the maximum punishment of six months suspension.

  • Doctor identifies benefits of African star apple (Agbalumo)

    A medical doctor with the Federal Medical Centre, Katsina, Dr Andrew  Marbell, yesterday said the African Star Apple, popularly known as Agbalumo in Yoruba, is rich in Vitamin C.

    Marbell told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that “as a fruit, of course, it has Vitamin C and has a number of functions in the body.’’

    According to him, the fruit has mineral such as calcium, magnesium, potassium etc, which are used by the body for different things.

    “Some people say it has antioxidant properties too, which is good as it reduces the risk of some illnesses,’’ the medical doctor said.

    Marbell, however, said that he had yet to come across standard studies demonstrating significant benefits with a consistent intake of Agbalumo also known as “ udara ’’ in Igbo.

    “But maybe it’s because I’ve not looked for,’’ the medical doctor said.

     

  • Dad drugged daughter to sleep with her, doctor tells court

    THE Ikeja Special Offences Court yesterday heard how a 35-year-old commercial motorcyclist, Emmanuel Idoko, usually drugged his 12-year-old daughter before sleeping with her.

    The court was told that he laced the girl’s drink with drug to make her sleepy before having carnal knowledge of her at their 35, Akewusola Street, Oworonsoki, Lagos home..

    A witness, Dr Alagbe Oyedeji, of the Mirabel Centre, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, said the girl told him under examination how her father gave her soft drinks and ‘’I will fall asleep’’.

    The doctor was testifying in the charge preferred  against Idoko for the alleged sexual assault of his daughter.

    Oyedeji told Justice Sybil Nwaka that she came on referral to Mirabel by the Divisional Police Officer at Ketu Police Station on November 28, 2017.

    Led in evidence by the  prosecutor, A. O. Alagbe, of Lagos State Ministry of Justice, Oyedeji said the minor told him that her ordeal started in 2016 after she and her younger brother moved in with their father after their parents separated.

    “The victim told me that her father came home from work one day and told her that he had heard rumours that she was no longer a virgin, and that he wanted to examine her by inserting his fingers into her private parts to see whether she was still a virgin or not.

    “She said she became reluctant after her father told her that he wanted to use his manhood to test her virginity.

    “When she refused, he beat her severely. He later became very nice and every night after he returned from work, he would give her soft drinks, then she would fall asleep and he would have his way.”

    Oyedeji said when the minor started sleeping in school,  her class teacher asked her what happened and the girl narrated what her father had been doing to her.

    The teacher, he said, reported the matter to the Ketu Police Station and the defendant was arrested.

    “Upon examination of the victim’s private parts, it was discovered that it was reddened. Her urethra was also reddened.

    “I also discovered that her anal opening (anus) was loosened. There were also areas of laceration around the private parts and thighs. The injuries she sustained in her private parts and thighs showed recent and previous forceful penetration,” the doctor said.

    He said the test he conducted on the minor showed that she had been physically and sexually abused.

    Under cross-examination by the defence counsel, Adeyemi Adegbite, Oyedeji insisted that the defendant penetrated his daughter’s private parts with his fingers

    Justice Nwaka adjourned till April 3.

     

  • Doctor dispels fears over birth control pills

    Dr Gloria Moses, a general medical practitioner, said that using birth control pills before starting to have children will not affect future fertility.

    Moses said this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja.

    He said that birth control pills would only help prevent pregnancy while using them.

    According to her, it has no long lasting effects on person’s ability to get pregnant.

    She added that there is no evidence that birth control pills would harm users or their babies in future.

    “It is not possible because it has no long lasting effects; it only works while you are taking it.

    “When you stop taking it, so also the work stops and your system becomes normal and you can conceive.

    “The purpose of the pills is to stop your ovulation. If you don’t ovulate you don’t get pregnant.

    “But none of the pills have long lasting effects on your ability to get pregnant when you stop taking them and you decide to get pregnant, ” she said.

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    The general medical practitioner said that it doesn’t cause any complications during pregnancy or cause any birth defects to the baby.

    According to her, other birth control methods like Intra Uterine Device (IUD) and Implant are also reversible.

    “The IUD is a plastic device which is inserted into the uterus to prevent pregnancy.

    “It works while is still inside you, but the moment you remove it then you are okay to conceive.

    “The Implant is also a contraceptive; it is a small rod put under the skin in your arm.

    “All of these contraceptive are reversible, effective and convenient to use.’’

    She added that it is better to use them and prevent unwanted pregnancies than to have an abortion.

     

     

  • Gunmen kill doctor, wife

    Gunmen have killed a doctor and his wife in Yola, the Adamawa State capital.

    Dr. Mwajim Malgwi, the proprietor of Polyclinic in Jimeta, Yola, was killed alongside his wife by yet to be identified gunmen near Boggare village, Jimeta, as they were returning home from a meeting with farm workers last Saturday.

    An associate of the deceased, Ibrahim Walye, who disclosed the killings yesterday, could not give details, but a source said the gunmen, who were in a tricycle, waylaid the couple and killed them.

    Police spokesman Othman Abubakar confirmed the incident.

    He said nobody had been arrested, adding that his men were investigating the incident.

    Dr. Mwajim was the commissioner for health in the state from 1988 to 1989. He was in his 70s.

    The deceased’s family was expected to issue a statement on the incident last night.

  • Five held for ‘kidnapping’ professor, doctor

    Five suspected members of a kidnap gang have been arrested by the police in Lagos for allegedly kidnapping a professor at Imo State University (IMSU) and a doctor.

    The suspects, Kenneth Chinedu; David Obiora alias Emperor, 21; Ogbuje Gift, 23; Ogu Obu, 31 and Lawrence Ndubuisi, 30 said to have kidnapped their victims in Owerri, Imo State and fled to Lagos, were paraded yesterday by Police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal.

    It was gathered that the suspects, who were nabbed at their hideout in Igando, had collected N6,000,000 ransom for the two victims before releasing them from Igando.

    According to Edgal, the command received information on September 21 that kidnappers, who abducted their victims from Owerri, were hiding in Igando, Lagos.

    He said the informant disclosed that after collecting millions of naira as ransom, the kidnappers vanished with the Toyota 4runner Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) and were regrouping in Igando where they planned to start picking on new targets.

    On the strength of the information, Edgal said the Divisional Police Officer in Igando was directed to collaborate with operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS), Ipakodo, to arrest the criminals.

    “Consequently, Kenneth Chinedu was arrested and he led operatives to other gang members. Exhibits recovered include a Toyota Highlander registered as EKY744FIH, Toyota Sienna Bus- EPE326FH.

    “During interrogation, the suspects confessed to the crime and admitted that they collected N6,000,000 ransom from their two previous victims- a lecturer at IMSU and a doctor whose Toyota 4runner they stole despite collecting money from his relations.

    “They also confessed to series of robberies/car snatching which they carried out in Lagos and its environs.

    They led operatives in the recovery of a stolen Toyota Highlander  EKY744FH and one Toyota Sienna bus EPE326FH. According to them, they snatched these vehicles from their owners.”

    Edgal said the gang members mentioned others who are still at large, adding that efforts are on to apprehend them and recover their firearms still in the hands of the fleeing criminals.

  • Staphylococcus not sexually transmitted, vital for women, says doctor

    Contrary to beliefs, Staphylococcus aureus is not a sexually transmitted infection but vital for every woman’s private part, a medical doctor has said.

    “A certain amount of it should be there for that place to function well,’’ Dr Tochukwu Egwuonwu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.

    Egwuonwu, who works with the Samaria Hospital, Ago, Lagos, said staphylococcus aureus was a bacterium found in human body.

    “Some bacteria such as staphylococcus aureus is found everywhere in the human body. It will be good for people to know that; especially women.

    “That it is everywhere is not the issue; it is when in a particular organ or in the body in an amount harmful to the body that it becomes an issue,’’ Egwuonwu said.

    The doctor said the bacterium helped to balance the private part’s potential of hydrogen (ph).

    “Once it is not balanced, that area will be infected,’’ she said.

    According to the doctor, there are different species of staphylococcus.

    “The one that readily comes to people’s mind, maybe, because of the way it is advertised is staphylococcus aureus,’’ she told NAN.

    She urged couples desiring to conceive to disregard jingles in public places announcing that staphylococcus aureus was the reason they could not conceive.

    “There is nothing wrong to say that one has grown staph; it depends on the quantity; it might just be normal and nothing to worry about.’’

    Egwuonwu regretted that some couples had resorted to consulting unqualified laboratory scientists to carry out fertility test on them and effect treatment.

    “The danger in patronising quacks is enormous.’’

    She advised women against using ‘strong’ soaps to clean their private parts.

    “Doing so will alter the ph balance of that vital area of the body.’’

    According to Egwuonwu, the ideal soap to use for cleaning the private part is a mild one.

    She said ordinary water was also ideal for the cleaning.