Tag: doctors
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Over 5,000 Nigerian doctors practicing in South Africa – Official
Mr Godwin Adama, the Consul General of Nigeria in South Africa, says about 5,000 Nigerian medical practitioners are in South Africa. Adama made this known in a statement issued by the Vice Consul, Information, and Culture, Mr. David Abraham, made available newsmen on Monday in Abuja. The Consul General, who made this known when Nigerian…
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Doctors threaten nationwide strike if FG accedes JOHESU demands
Doctors under the aegis of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) have threatened to withdraw their services across health institutions in the country if the federal government accedes to the demands of other health workers (JOHESU) who have been on strike for the past three weeks. The strike by JOHESU( Joint Health Sector Union) has crippled healthcare…
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Strike: Doctors kick against same salary structure with health workers, says ‘JOHESU is illegal’
…warns FG not to accede to JOHESU’s demands Members of the Nigeria Medical Association on Tuesday warned the Federal Government against acceding to some of the demands over which other workers in the health sector have embarked on a nationwide strike. The doctors who specifically opposed salary adjustment and harmonization, one of the major demands…
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74 days after, Kogi doctors suspend strike, resume treatment of patients
Normal medical and healthcare services have resumed at Kogi State Government-owned hospitals, seventy-four (74) days after the doctors embarked on a statewide strike to press home their demands. This followed the suspension of 74-day old strike by members of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in the state. A NAN correspondent who monitored developments at the…
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Canadian doctors protest pay raises, demand slash in salaries
In Canada, more than 500 doctors and residents, as well as over 150 medical students, have signed a public letter protesting their own pay raises. “We, Quebec doctors who believe in a strong public system, oppose the recent salary increases negotiated by our medical federations,” the letter says. The group say they are offended that…
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N21.7m fraud: Doctors make moves to quash charges
Five former executive members of the Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), standing trial over alleged N21.7m fraud, have prayed the court to quash the charges against them. Emmanuel Ighodaro (chairman) Anthony Owolabi, Quincy Atoghengbe, Raymond Ogieva and Oseremen Gabriel Ogbebor were arraigned before the state High Court on January 31 by…
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Only careless doctors contact lass fever while treating patients – Health Minister
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has said the refusal of medical doctors to take necessary precaution while treating patients infected with lassa fever is responsible for the spread of the deadly disease among the doctors themselves. The Minister, who stated this in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State on Saturday when he paid a courtesy call…
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‘Over 600 doctors migrated out of Nigeria between 2016-2017’
President of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Prof Mike Ogirima, yesterday expressed worry over the spate of migration of medical doctors from Nigeria to other countries, revealing that over 600 doctors had left between 2016 and 2017. Ogirima who said the country had continued to maintain poor doctor: patient ratio of 1: 4000 population, said…
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Africa needs services of 11m doctors, nurses, teachers to avert impending ‘disaster’- UN
Africa needs 11 million more doctors, nurses and teachers by 2030 to prevent a “social and economic disaster” that could propel millions to migrate, the UN said on Thursday. It said the 11 million were needed to help the continent cope with a booming population, with the number of children set to increase by 170…
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‘Monkey Pox’ outbreak hits Bayelsa as doctors, 10 others are quarantined
Information reaching TheNewsGuru.com now has it that a new viral epidemic known as “monkeypox” has broken out in Bayelsa State. A medical doctor and 10 other persons who came down with the monkeypox had been quarantined in an isolation centre created at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital (NDUTH) Okolobiri, Yenagoa local government area of…