Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), today, inducted 416 foreign-trained medical and dental graduates (403 doctors and 13 dentists) into the Nigerian medical profession, with a charge to uphold the ethics of the medical and dental profession. The inductees were graduates who passed the written examination and other clinical exercises ...
Dear Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, The news that Lagos State, under your stewardship and in this year, will set up a medical varsity that will produce 1,500 medical doctors yearly is arguably the best news we, as a people, have received in 2024. Yes, I know the year is just five days old today, and a […]
•Prime Minister Sunak Hospital doctors in England today begin their longest consecutive strike in the seven-decade history of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS). Junior doctors – those below the consultant level – will walk out for six days in a major escalation of their long-running pay dispute with the UK government, reports AFP. The in...
•Governor Alex Otti Abia State Government says it has uncovered still on its payroll some doctors who left the state employment to seek greener pastures abroad, in what is commonly known as ‘Japa.’ Governor Alex Otti disclosed this in Umuahia, the state capital at the first Abia State Council on Health at the International Conference […...
•Demonstrators Hospital doctors in England begin their longest strike action yet today in a move that health bosses fear will pile pressure on services at the busiest time of year. Junior doctors — those below consultant level — join picket lines from 0700 GMT to the same time on Saturday in a major escalation of […]
•FMC Abeokuta The federal government has approved the recruitment of 200 medical and clinical staff at the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, Ogun State. The recruitment, it was gathered, is part of the government’s efforts to replace health workers who have migrated to foreign nations from the FMC in Abeokuta in recent times, reports ...
•Doctors The federal government has directed universities to begin to admit more students into Medicine and Surgery as a strategy to address the shortage of manpower in the health sector occasioned by the relentless exodus of health workers abroad in what has been termed japa. The Vice Chancellor, Nile University, Prof. Dili Dogo, revealed the...
•Mr Ibu Leg of veteran Nigerian actor John Okafor, aka Mr Ibu, has been amputated in order to keep him alive. This was disclosed by the family today. News surfaced in October that the veteran actor was ill and required financial assistance to aid in his treatment. In a statement shared on the actor’s verified […]
•Medical doctors Former Ekiti State governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has expressed worries about the manpower crisis that might befall Nigeria soon with the spate of exodus of medical doctors and other health care professionals for foreign practice, thus challenging the government to take urgent measures to forestall the imminent crisis. He, howev...
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