Fourteen 14 medical doctors, including physician to ailing Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State, may appear before the Medical and Dental Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal for various offences, ranging from improper conduct to negligence of duty. The MDPDC has the status of a High Court as its judgement can be appealed only before the Court of […]
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has begun an indefinite strike to protest the kidnap of a former Chief Medical Director of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Dr. Patrick Adegun, and a theatre nurse with the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti, Mrs Margaret Aladeneka. In a letter to the state Governor, Ayo Fayose, the association’s state […]
Medical doctors in Ekiti State have decried the increasing rate of insecurity among health workers in the state. This is against the backdrop of the recent waves of kidnapping of doctors and health workers in the state. On Thursday, unknown gunmen abducted a former Chief Medical Director of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH), Dr. […]
The President of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Lawrence Kayode Obembe, has been elected as Council Adviser of the World Medical Association (WMA). A statement of the association signed by the chairman of the publicity and publication committee of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the NMA, Mr. Obitade Obimakinde, said Obembe was elected the adviser […]
Some stakeholders in the health sector have agreed that incessant strikes would result to inadequate healthcare delivery with government policies adversely affected. The stakeholders stated their position during a chat with newsmen in Lagos against the backdrop of the indefinite strike embarked on by doctors employed by the Lagos State Government. Dr Sa’eid Ahmad, the […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has reiterated his administration’s commitment to bringing to an end incessant strikes by doctors. He added that government would implement policy and programmes that would improve their well-being. Jonathan stated this while inaugurating a newly constructed 300-bed Specialist Hospital in Bauchi, on Monday. Said Jonathan: “The present administration is doing everything possible […]
As the strike by the doctors in the employ of Lagos State government lingers, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Lagos branch, may join the strike, in sympathy with the cause of their colleagues. Speaking in an exclusive interview with our reporter on Sunday, the Deputy Secretary of the NMA, Dr. Peter Ogunnunbi, said, “We are […]
Despite the ongoing strike action by the Lagos State doctors under the aegies of the Medical Guild, the doctors are still attending to patients. Medical activities are on-going as doctors were seen attending to patients at some hospitals monitored by our reporter. At the Ifako Ijaiye General Hospital, Ikorodu General Hospital and the Lagos State […]