•Protesting doctors Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) breathed a collective sigh of relief today as doctors under the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), FCTA Chapter, suspended a 3-day warning strike that began earlier in the day. The doctors, alongside other healthcare professionals across FCT general hospitals, district ho...
•Striking doctors and Wike The Association of Resident Doctors in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has announced the commencement of a three-day warning strike, starting today, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. The doctors concluded to embark on the strike after their emergency congress meeting held yesterday at Asokoro District Hospital, Abuja, repo...
•Doctors and nurses Lagos State Government has revealed that the state needs an additional 33,000 doctors and another 33,000 nurses to provide adequate medical care to residents. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who disclosed this yesterday during a media briefing to mark the second year of the second term of Governor B...
•Tinubu jets out Presidential aide Daniel Bwala says contrary to social media speculations, President Bola Tinubu is not in France for medical treatment. “Sometimes on social media, somebody will be tweeting, you don’t even know who the person is; it can be somebody who has mental health somewhere. You just see that information is coming [&hel...
No fewer than 16,000 medical doctors left Nigeria to practice abroad in the last five to seven years , the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, has said. He made the disclosure yesterday in Abuja during the annual capacity-building workshop of the Association of Medical Councils of Africa (AMCOA), and [&...
The Ekiti State Government has announced a recruitment process for the state healthcare workforce to improve access to quality and affordable healthcare. The state government, in a statement today, urged qualified individuals to apply for vacant positions in primary healthcare facilities and state hospitals. The positions being recruited for i...
Nigeria’s Healthcare has witnessed an unprecedented crisis. This is evidenced by the distortions of COVID, skyrocketing foreign exchange, the high cost of drugs the exodus of doctors and the collapse of a system. Confirming this situation to our correspondent, the Chairman, of the Lagos State Chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, Dr...
•Medical doctors protest The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Federal Teaching Hospital Lokoja (FTHL), has renewed its plea to President Bola Tinubu and the Minister of Health, Prof. Ali Pate, to investigate the worsening conditions at the hospital, warning that it risks total collapse. •The protesting doctors During a peaceful protest h...
The Association of Resident Doctors in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has called off its warning strike after the intervention of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike. The President of the Association, Dr. George Ebong, in a statement yesterday, said the FCTA under Wike has met their demands. On Wednesday, the doctors grounded all FCTA-owned h...
•FCT Minister Nyesom Wike (L) and Senate President Godswill Akpabio Striking resident doctors in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have challenged FCT Minister Nyesom Wike and Senate President Godswill Akpabio to use government hospitals in the nation’s capital to feel the plight of public health workers and patients. “If we are ready to fix...
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