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The first Man to receive pig kidney transplant discharged from hospital
Just over two weeks after doctors placed a genetically edited kidney from a pig inside Richard Slayman, the 62-year-old is recovering at home and...
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Nigerian Musician, Sound Sultan, dies at 44
Singer, Olanrewaju Fasasi aka Sound Sultan, has died. A statement released by his family says he died on July 11 after a long battle with throat cancer. The singer is survived by his wife and three children.
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ABSU medical school loses accreditation
The Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) has withdrawn the accreditation given to Abia State University Teaching Hospital, Aba (ABSUTH).
The accreditation was withdrawn following some inadequacies the universities regulatory body unearthed. The Teaching hospital is the training environment for the Clinical Medical Students and forms part of the teaching facilities.
With the new development, the School will no longer admit new students to study Medicine and Surgery.
Lamenting over this, Chairman of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Abia State chapter, Dr. Chimezie Okwuonu said it was disturbing that ABSUTH has lost its accreditation.
He noted that ABSUTH has been plagued by interrupted operations due to agitations and industrial actions by the workers over irregular payment of salaries. Okwuonu further revealed that as at the end...