Ozubulu church attack: FG may deploy more doctors to Nnewi
The Federal Ministry of Health says it has placed medical experts on standby to beef up services at the Nnamdi Azikwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, for worshippers injured in the Ozubulu church attack, should the need arise.
Resident doctors to commence indefinite strike April 25 – Association
The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) says it has served the Federal Government with a 21-day notice to meet their demands or face an indefinite strike.
LUTH doctors protest unpaid salaries, discriminatory tax policy
Doctors at Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, yesterday, protested unpaid salaries and what they described as “discriminatory tax policy”.
Resume work or be sacked, Aregbesola tells doctors
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has issued a seven-day ultimatum to striking medical doctors in the state to return to their duty posts or be presumed to have voluntarily resigned their appointments with the state government.
LUTH doctors advise Nigerians to prevent heart diseases with walk
The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) on Monday urged Nigerians to prevent the high rate of cardiovascular diseases in the country with daily brisk walk and exercises.
Expatriate doctors begin equipment test-run at Ibom Specialist Hospital
OPERATIONS will soon commence at the multi-billion naira Ibom Specialist Hospital, in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, with the arrival of medical experts from outside the country.
Oshiomhole to Edo doctors: Go back to work or lose your salaries
overnor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, described the ongoing nationwide warning strike embarked upon by the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, as provocative, warning doctors in the state to go back to work or forget about their salaries.
Oshiomhole stated this at a meeting with the Association of Resident Doctors, Medical and Dental Consultants Association at Government House, Benin City.
Doctors want FG to establish Lassa fever centre in S-East
ABAKALIKI—Ebonyi State chapter of Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, yesterday called on the Federal Government to establish a Lassa fever screening centre in the state for the South East geopolitical zone.
FG, resident doctors meeting ends in deadlock
The negotiation between the Federal Government and the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) ended in a stalemate in the early hours of Friday.
Lawmakers caution doctors against derogatory words on patients
LAGOS — LAGOS State House of Assembly, LSHA, has called on doctors and other health workers in the state to desist from using derogatory and improper languages on patients as it negates the service charter of the state Ministry of Health.
Doctors in private practice tasked on PPP
The need for medical doctors in private practice in Lagos to tap into the Public Private Partnership, PPP, in the state took centrestage during a two – day Multi-Purpose Public Private Partnership Capacity Building Workshop organised by the Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria, AGPMPN in Lagos.
