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Students of the College of Health and Technology, Ijero-Ekiti, on Wednesday, went rampage following the collapse of 100 of thier colleagues after allegedly inhaling chemicals during a fumigation excercise on the campus.
DAILY POST gathered that the students collapsed while writing their examinations in their various halls after inhaling the chemicals when the operatives of the Federal Fire Service were undertaking a fumigation exercise.
An eyewitness who spoke on condition of anonymity, told our correspodent that the no fewer than 100 students slumped as result of the chemicals and they were rushed to hospitals outside the campus for medical treatment.
Ekiti, Bauchi, Kano deploy 1,500 teams to administer COVID-19 vaccine
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Published 14 March 2021
About 1,500 teams of health workers will be deployed by Ekiti, Bauchi and Kano state governments in different parts of the states to administer doses of COVID-19 vaccine jabs,
Sunday PUNCH has learnt.
Our correspondents gathered that 78 teams would be moblised in Ekiti, 872 in Bauchi while a team of health workers would be deployed across each of the 509 designated centres in Kano.
The Executive Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Rilwan Mohammed, said the state Governor, Bala Mohammed, had directed that the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine be commenced immediately.
COVID-19 Vaccination: Lagos NMA demands equity, prioritisation of health workers
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By Chioma Obinna, Dayo Johnson, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Shina Abubakar, Rotimi Omojoyela, Peter Duru & Umar Yusuf
As Lagos prepares to roll out its COVID vaccination programme, medical doctors in the state are demanding equity in the vaccination processes as well as strict adherence to the initial plans of vaccinating health workers and other front liners to ensure a hitch-free vaccination of all Lagosians.
In a chat with Vanguard, the Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Lagos State branch, Dr Adetunji Adenekan said the Association was yet to get notification from the state government on the modalities of the rollout of vaccines in the state.
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States on Tuesday started receiving their consignments of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine with Lagos collecting 507,000 doses, Nasarawa, 61,000; Ekiti, 52,960 and Ondo, 75,570.
Officials of the states disclosed these figures to The PUNNCH in separate interviews just as one of our correspondents gathered that between 150,000 and 160,000 doses would be given to Katsina State.
Recall that the Federal Government on Tuesday last week received 3.94 million doses of the vaccine from COVAX facility, an initiative co-led by the Vaccine Alliance, GAVI and the World Health Organisation.
On Monday, 50,000 doses of the vaccine were given to Ogun State by the Federal Government.