Chairman, Kano State chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, Dr Usman Ali on Monday said so far it has lost three doctors to the raging coronavirus pandemic while 53 others tested positive in the state.

Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Tuesday gave an order for the recruitment of 40 medical doctors as an addition to his previous approvals, in order to meet health care needs of the state’s increasing population.

By David Odama The Chief Medical Director, Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital (DASH) Lafia, Dr Ikrama Hassan has appealed to the Association of Residents Doctors to shelve their plan of shutting down the hospital and have  dialogue with the management of the specialist hospital on their position. The CMD while responding to the call by the […]

Doctors in many Indian hospitals closed out-patients departments and wore black arm bands on Friday to protest against a government decision to allow practitioners of traditional medicine (Ayurveda) carry out minor surgical procedures. Ayurveda is a centuries-old traditional system of healing with herbal concoctions and massages that finds mention in ancient Hindu texts and is […]

A total of 20 resident doctors at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, UATH, have tested positive for COVID-19.

Prof. Emmanuel Otolorin, the President, Ibadan College of Medicine Alumni Association (ICOMAA), has urged resident doctors in Nigeria to be resilient, irrespective of the challenges faced in their quest to get a medical education. Otolorin stated this during the public presentation of a book, entitled: ‘Portraits in the Hallway: 53-Year Historical Account of the Association […]

…Govt plans mass burial In what could be described as a betrayal of their Hippocratic oath, doctors in lmo State University Teaching Hospital Orlu are alleged to be abandoning patients to die. It was alleged that the mortuary in the tertiary health institution is overwhelming with corpses such that government is planning mass burial. According […]

A total of 161 Indonesian doctors, including nine dentists have died of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) said on Tuesday. “They died after being infected by the COVID-19,” the IDI’s Mitigation Team leader Adib Khumaidi said. The highest death toll came from East Java with 33, followed by Jakarta 24, North Sumatra […]

Resident Doctors at the Ondo State University Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (UNIMEDTH), Akure, have gone on strike, warning that the hospital will be shut down over unpaid salaries. The doctors, who marched to the office of the Chief Medical Director, said they are owed four months’ salaries. READ ALSO: Massive protest against abortion ruling planned […]

ASABA-DELTA State Chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, Sunday, embarked on sit-at- home, following the alleged manhandling of a consultant physician by soldiers who were enforcing the curfew ordered by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.