•Caring Africa Summit Against the backdrop of Nigeria’s population of demographics, including children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, stakeholders convened at the maiden Caring Africa Summit in Lagos to champion comprehensive reforms in the country’s care industry. Nigeria has the highest number of older people in the continent, a...
•Metropolitan Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya A nationwide doctors’ strike in Kenya on Thursday paralysed health services at some government-run hospitals which are already suffering due to a lack of medicines and equipment. The medics are taking the action, now in its second week, to demand an increase in pay and better working conditions, their uni...
•Some doctors performing a surgery Doctors under the auspices of the National Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria have lamented the high cost of drugs in the country. The association said the high prices of drugs would compound the woes of Nigerians, particularly those suffering from one ailment or the other, as many of [&hellip...
•Nigerian doctors The federal government yesterday disclosed that 55,000 licensed doctors are in the country to attend to the growing population of patients following the exodus of health professionals to hospitals and health facilities abroad. It said in the last five years, the country lost about 15,000 to 16,000 doctors to the Japa syndrome...
•Muhammad Ali Pate The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate, says other nations recruit health workers who left Nigeria for greener pastures overseas because of the level of training the health workers received back in Nigeria. Pate stated this today during a briefing organised by the Ministry of Information an...
•Doctors on strike Members of Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, yesterday began a three-day warning strike over an assault on one of them by a patient’s relation. The President and Vice-President of ARD-UCH Ibadan, Dr. John Oladapo and Dr. Sunday Adegbite, in a statement said they were demanding ...
Chairman of Ikoyi-Obalende Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Lagos, Mr Fuad Atanda-Lawal, has approved 100 per cent pay rise for the medical doctors attached to all the primary health centres in the council area. Atanda-Lawal made the announcement yesterday after extensive deliberations on the need to ensure that all residents of the co...
Doctors in Ekiti State Teaching University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH) under the aegis of the Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigerians have vowed not to accept payment of ‘amputated’ salary any longer. The MDCAN chairman, Adeniran Atiba said the increase in the subvention to the health institution from N261 million to N411 milli...
•Medical doctors Kano State branch of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has raised the alarm over incidents of assaults on medical doctors by relatives of patients in hospitals in the state. The branch Chairman, Abdullahi Kabir Sulaiman stated this during an unscheduled visit to the Commissioner of Police, Kano State, Mohammed Usaini Gumel...
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has demanded the payment of its N25,000 quarterly accoutrement allowance for medical and dental doctors in hospitals, medical centres, and clinics in the federal public service. NARD made this known in its communique issued today at the end of its January National Executive Council meeting and healt...