Resident doctors at the Bayelsa Government-owned Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital (NDUTH) Okolobiri, have suspended their indefinite strike for three weeks.

Activities are picking up at Bayelsa State-owned Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital (NDUTH), Okolobiri, as the state government has taken steps to end the indefinite strike by resident doctors.

The Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) and Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) with the help of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Laboratory in Dakar, Senegal...

The new development brings the figure to seven, including the medical doctor and the index person out of the 11 persons isolated at the teaching hospital since the outbreak of the disease in Bayelsa State.

Residents of Yenagoa, Bayelsa capital, are avoiding handshakes and bodily contact in public places following the outbreak of monkeypox viral diseases which has infected 13 people including a medical doctor.

A new airborne Ebola-like viral disease, referred to as ‘Monkey Pox” has hit the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital (NDUTH), Okolobiri in Yenagoa local council of Bayelsa State.