The atmosphere was sombre on Friday at the State House in Marina, where the Lagos State Government and leaders of organised labour unions held a low-key event to commemorate the 2020 Workers’ Day. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu used the opportunity of the May Day anniversary to appreciate front-line health and emergency workers, whom he described as […]
Nigerians have continued to hail President Muhammadu Buhari on the federal government’s welfare package for health workers as Nigeria continues to fight COVID-19. Some lawyers in Lagos on Wednesday, described the decision as encouraging, urging citizens’ cooperation in the fight. They spoke on Wednesday in Lagos. A human rights campaigner, Mr Kabir Akingbolu, said that […]
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has called on the Zamfara state government to adopt the reviewed health workers hazard allowance approved by the federal government. State NMA Chairman, Dr. Kabiru Shinkafi made this call in a statement on Tuesday in Gusau. Shinkafi said: ”This is one of the outcome of our meeting and communique issued […]
India faces shortages of testing kits – just like so many other countries – in the battle with the new coronavirus. That’s why it has called on its key asset – people power – to help turn the tide. India has reported more than 23,000 cases and 700 deaths from the contagion so far, which […]
Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rep. Toby Okechukwu, has commended the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) health workers, and various tiers of government for their efforts at managing and containing the COVID-19 pandemic. Rep. Okechukwu specially commended the Enugu state government for in managing the pandemic and called on the NCDC […]
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) Delta state branch on Tuesday, called for enhanced hazard allowance for medical and health workers in the state considering the present situation of the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Speaking to journalists in Asaba, the state Chairman of NMA, Dr. Ekenaem Omo, described the present situation as terrible times and called for […]
AT LEAST 100 health and social care workers have now died of coronavirus including a nurse whose family say she would have lived if she had been given the correct protective clothing. The grim tally revealed yesterday by the publication NursingNotes is more than double the official estimate for fatalities of NHS staff. And workers […]
The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has said that the safety of health workers was critical to the country’s containment strategy for COVID-19 pandemic. Mrs. Blessing Israel, the Lagos state chairman of NANNM, said this in an interview on Sunday in Lagos. Israel explained that safety of the members of the association […]
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Bauchi branch, says it is collaboration with health workers and the state government in sensitising its members on measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the state. Alhaji Saddique Ahmed, the state chairman, disclosed this on Thursday in Bauchi. Ahmed said the emergence of the […]
Health workers and essential services providers exempted from the lockdown in Lagos state will henceforth, show documents, other than their identity cards to prove they are on duty to be allowed movement in the state. This new directive followed an allegation that operatives from the Lagos state Police Command had harassed a medical doctor in […]
As part of its cooperate social responsibility, an indigenous company, Faxx Stores and trading Nigeria Limited has donated assorted personal protective equipment to health workers in the Federal Capital Territory to aid them in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus. Delivering the items to the administration, the Chief Executive Officer of Faxx Stores […]
Bayelsa Government has deployed health workers across the eight Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state for surveillance over possible coronavirus outbreak, especially in Brass, where an Italian firm operate. Dr Yerinbuluemi Stowe, Director of Public Health, in the state Ministry of Health, stated this while speaking with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Yenogoa, […]
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has been issued seven -day ultimatum to pay health workers the shortfall of their January salary as well as the February pay without delay. The FCTA health workers comprise of doctors, medical laboratory scientists, nurses, optometrists, pharmacists, physiotherapists, health information officers and other medical and health workers. The stakeholders […]
The FCT Administration has trained some front-line health workers drawn from the six FCT Area Councils on measure to handle Lassa Fever, Corona Virus and other five other epidemic prone diseases in the territory. The drilling took place at a one-day residential training/sensitization of FCT Area Council monitoring and evaluation, immunization and surveillance officials seven […]
Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja The FCT Administration yesterday trained some front-line health workers drawn from the six FCT Area Councils on measure to handle Lassa Fever, Corona Virus and other five other epidemic prone diseases in the territory. READ ALSO: FCTA to sanction property defaulters over ground rent The drilling took place at a one day […]
Medical and health workers at the Imo state Specialist Hospital, Owerri have embarked on an industrial action to protest against the alleged 30 per cent cut in their salary. The workers numbering at least 300 have sustained the protest for about 11 days, to press home their demand for the reversal of the pay cut […]
Owerri – The Medical and Health Workers of Imo Specialist Hospital has embarked on industrial action to protest against the alleged 30 per cent cut in their salary. The workers, numbering at least 300, have sustained the protest for about 11 days, to press home their demand for the reversal of the pay cut by […]
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has called for a law that would protect health workers against assault while on duty. The association made the call in a statement jointly signed by its President, Dr. Aliyu Sokomba, the Secretary General, Dr. Bilkis Muhammed and Publicity and Social Secretary, Dr. Egbogu Stanley. In the statement […]
The FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has assured health workers in all public hospitals in the territory of adequate security following the recent physical assault on a female medical doctor by aggrieved relatives of a patient. The minister, who described such assault as lawlessness exhibited by citizens, said such act will not […]
The Chairman, Ojo Local Government Council in Lagos State, Mr Idowu Rasulu-Olusola, said on Friday that primary healthcare services remains free in the area. The chairman made this known in an interview in Lagos. According to him, the council is not aware that some primary healthcare givers are taxing pregnant and nursing mothers before they […]