•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...
•Governor Seyi Makinde The Oyo State Government has shut down six health facilities due to quackery. The government disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists today. The state government stated that the affected facilities were sealed due to various offences, including the recruitment of unqualified personnel to provide medica...
The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare announced that it is implementing new strategies to ensure compliance with the Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act 2017. The Gunshot Act 2017 mandates all hospitals in Nigeria to accept or receive immediate and adequate treatment with or without police clearance, reports Th...
•Patients sexual harassment AMARACHI OKEH writes about the low level of awareness of the rights of patients and how this puts females at risk of sexual harassment, reports Sunday PUNCH. Lola froze with shock on the examination bed in the consultation room when a male doctor who was examining her said, “See what you have […]
Six years after the $105 million-worth of special intervention to electrify public varsities and some tertiary hospitals nationwide, several beneficiaries listed in the phase one of the initiative are yet to get the power supply. Besides the trio of Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo (AE-FUNAI), Ebonyi State, Usmanu Danfodiyo Un...
•Some patients in a hospital The migration of doctors and other health workers to other countries is taking a toll on hospitals across the country as the institutions have reduced the number of their outpatients and surgeries due to a shortage of manpower. Investigations yesterday showed that almost all the health institutions were battling wi...