Diphtheria: A Major Cause of Preventable Deaths in Nigeria - Daily Trust

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Diphtheria: A Major Cause of Preventable Deaths in Nigeria - Daily Trust

Practicing medicine in Nigeria can be quite heartbreaking. A young boy of about eight years was brought into the hospital looking very weak. His mother carried his small frame on her back, like a toddler, and barged in the hospital in tears. Her son was dying. Working with advice she received from relatives and neighbours, she had sold the mattress in her room to pay for transportation fare to travel to the hospital in the big city. Her son had …