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…We are being maltreated, We won’t go back to work- Doctors By Dayo Johnson Akure Striking doctors in Ondo state have said that there was no agreement yet for them to end their two weeks strike. The doctors under the aegis of Ondo state government doctors forum said their meeting with the state governor, Rotimi
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A Forum of young Doctors in Warri, Delta State has alleged that a Consultant of Nephrologist in Central hospital Warri Dr. Raphael Onyemekha was brutally beaten and forced to swim in a muddy water by Men of the Nigeria military while going to review his patients in the hospital The doctors in a statement jointly signed
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James Ogunnaike Resident Doctors from the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State, working at isolation centres in the state, on Wednesday, joined their striking colleagues in the state. The doctors under the aegis of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) embarked on an indefinite strike since July 1 but exempted their colleagues
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Health workers battling the coronavirus pandemic in DR Congo’s capital Kinshasa said Monday they are on “unlimited strike” until they get paid. The DR Congo health workers in Kinshasa, where nearly 90 percent of the vast central African country’s infections have been recorded, said they hadn’t been paid for three months. “They paid us for
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The Police Command in Akwa Ibom has arrested a medical doctor and six others over alleged sale of a five-month-old baby. The command’s Public Relations Officer, CSP Fredrick Nnudam, made the disclosure in a statement on Wednesday in Uyo, Unudam said that the doctor was an employee of one of the teaching hospitals in Calabar.
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By Omeiza Ajayi The COVID-19 Team Leader at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Dr. Yunusa Thairu, has given a rare insight into the treatment regimen for the COVID-19, explaining how a cocktail of an anti-retroviral drug, Aluvia, as well as Zinc and Vitamin C tablets are deployed. Dr. Thairu disclosed this on Monday, while
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A top New York City doctor who was on the front line of the US fight against coronavirus has taken her own life. Dr Lorna Breen, who was medical director of the emergency department at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in Manhattan, died of self-inflicted injuries on Sunday, police said. The 49-year-old’s father, Dr Philip Breen,
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By Chioma Obinna A Nigerian doctor in private practice Wednesday morning died of coronavirus related complications after treating an infected patient in his hospital. The doctor, identified as Dr Chugbo Emeka who died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, was said to have been admitted in the hospital Monday, after contracting the disease from
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By David Royal The President of the National Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Aliyu Sokomba, has revealed that a doctor treating COVID-19 patients at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Edo State, has been infected with the diseases. Sokomba said this on Thursday while on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme. He said six doctors had died
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Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Federal Medical Centre, Jabi, Abuja has condemned an assault on one of its members while on call on Saturday. The Association in a statement signed by its President, Dr Adejo Arome and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) on Sunday in Abuja, threatened to take necessary
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