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		<title>For A Better Nursing</title>
		<link>http://thenewsafrica.com/2012/01/23/for-a-better-nursing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hospital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lagos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nutrition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nurses face certain challenges which affect their attitudes to work The image of an average nurse in Nigeria, in the mind of a patient, is a bad copy: rudeness, lack<br /><br /><a href="http://thenewsafrica.com/2012/01/23/for-a-better-nursing/">Continue Reading </a> &#187;]]></description>
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		<title>Parents In Pains</title>
		<link>http://thenewsafrica.com/2012/01/02/parents-in-pains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Parents and guardians of children afflicted with Down’s Syndrome reveal the pains of dealing with their wards’ special needs &#160; One day in 2002, Muyiwa Majekodunmi took his four children<br /><br /><a href="http://thenewsafrica.com/2012/01/02/parents-in-pains/">Continue Reading </a> &#187;]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher’s Inhumanity To Pupil</title>
		<link>http://thenewsafrica.com/2011/08/29/teacher%e2%80%99s-inhumanity-to-pupil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ A 10-year-old pupil is blinded by her teacher &#160; Blessing Okaeben, a 10-year-old pupil of Okhoro Primary school, Benin, in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, was in her<br /><br /><a href="http://thenewsafrica.com/2011/08/29/teacher%e2%80%99s-inhumanity-to-pupil/">Continue Reading </a> &#187;]]></description>
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		<title>Extending Health Insurance Benefits To Rural Communities</title>
		<link>http://thenewsafrica.com/2011/08/29/extending-health-insurance-benefits-to-rural-communities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheNEWS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Muhammad Waziri Dogo-Muhammad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Health Insurance Scheme]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ABUJA: Determined to extend health insurance benefits to rural and sub-urban areas of the country, which, hitherto, had no access to them, the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, has launched<br /><br /><a href="http://thenewsafrica.com/2011/08/29/extending-health-insurance-benefits-to-rural-communities/">Continue Reading </a> &#187;]]></description>
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		<title>New Dawn For Kechi</title>
		<link>http://thenewsafrica.com/2011/08/08/new-dawn-for-kechi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheNEWS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kechi Okwuchi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sosoliso airplane crash]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Friends and classmates of Kechi Okwuchi, one of the two survivors of the Sosoliso airplane crash in 2005, organised a dinner to raise some funds for her surgeries Kechi Adaobi<br /><br /><a href="http://thenewsafrica.com/2011/08/08/new-dawn-for-kechi/">Continue Reading </a> &#187;]]></description>
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		<title>How Mosquitoes Cause Elephantiasis</title>
		<link>http://thenewsafrica.com/2011/05/02/how-mosquitoes-cause-elephantiasis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 13:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheNEWS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elephantiasis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[limbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mosquitoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oluwaranti Oluwadamilare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to the widespread  assumption that elephantiasis, caused by mosquitoes, only affects the limbs, the disease also poses great danger to reproductive and other vital organs in the human body<br /><br /><a href="http://thenewsafrica.com/2011/05/02/how-mosquitoes-cause-elephantiasis/">Continue Reading </a> &#187;]]></description>
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		<title>The Restless Killer</title>
		<link>http://thenewsafrica.com/2011/03/14/the-restless-killer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheNEWS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bimbo Jimoh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[killer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New figures emanating from the World Health Organisation, WHO, show that cancer is the biggest killer of Nigerians Bimbo Jimoh once brimmed with life; and she hoped to make the<br /><br /><a href="http://thenewsafrica.com/2011/03/14/the-restless-killer/">Continue Reading </a> &#187;]]></description>
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		<title>Why Cancer Is On The Rise In Nigeria</title>
		<link>http://thenewsafrica.com/2011/03/14/why-cancer-is-on-the-rise-in-nigeria/</link>
		<comments>http://thenewsafrica.com/2011/03/14/why-cancer-is-on-the-rise-in-nigeria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheNEWS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cirrhosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diseases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hepatic silicosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hepatitis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pathologist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professor Femi Williams]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Femi Williams is a world renowned pathologist and a leading authority on hepatitis. He has contributed extensively to the field of medicine with his research on liver diseases such<br /><br /><a href="http://thenewsafrica.com/2011/03/14/why-cancer-is-on-the-rise-in-nigeria/">Continue Reading </a> &#187;]]></description>
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		<title>Unending Strike,Unending Pains</title>
		<link>http://thenewsafrica.com/2010/11/15/unending-strikeunending-pains/</link>
		<comments>http://thenewsafrica.com/2010/11/15/unending-strikeunending-pains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheNEWS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The protracted strike by doctors under the employment of the Lagos State Government  paralyses the state’s healthcare system and occasionally leads to avoidable deaths As a final-year student of Law<br /><br /><a href="http://thenewsafrica.com/2010/11/15/unending-strikeunending-pains/">Continue Reading </a> &#187;]]></description>
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		<title>How They Coped With Breast Cancer</title>
		<link>http://thenewsafrica.com/2010/11/08/how-they-coped-with-breast-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://thenewsafrica.com/2010/11/08/how-they-coped-with-breast-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheNEWS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Breast cancer survivors explain that the disease is anything but a death sentence One day in 2005, Mrs. Sola Adeoti, then managing director of the defunct City  Express Bank, took<br /><br /><a href="http://thenewsafrica.com/2010/11/08/how-they-coped-with-breast-cancer/">Continue Reading </a> &#187;]]></description>
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