The Kogi State Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, says it has extended to December 31, the two-week ultimatum it gave to the state government to meet its demands or face strike. Dr Godwin Tijani, state Chairman of the chapter, revealed on Sunday in Lokoja. He said that the extension of the date was […]
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Residents doctors in Kaduna State have begun an indefinite strike on Tuesday over the “sorry state” of healthcare facilities in state government hospitals. Joseph Jokshan, president, Association of Resident Doctors in the state, said at a press briefing Monday night in Kaduna that the state government had not responded to any of the doctors’ demands […]
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Over 90 per cent of deaths recorded in Nigerian hospitals are due to poor attitude of health workers. Thomas Agan, the Chief Medical Director (CMD), University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), said this during an interaction with journalists on Tuesday in Calabar. He said some health workers were not taking the lives of patients seriously, […]
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If there was any hope that ongoing strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) will be suspended, it has all been dashed on Friday as the federal government breached agreement reached with the doctors on Wednesday. Specifically, the government failed to pay the backlog of salary arrears to the doctors as it promised […]
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Despite the long meeting between resident doctors and a federal government delegation, officials have said the strike will continue. The meeting in Abuja ended in the early hours of Thursday between the leaders of the striking doctors, NARD, and a federal government delegation that included the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, and that of health, […]
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Prof. Ademola Olaitan, President, National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, on Thursday said that the college had saved more than $5 billion for the country by training doctors locally. Olaitan disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. He said that before the college was set up in 1979, […]
Continue ReadingThe National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, has given the Federal Government up to January 2 to implement the National Health Act and other demands or face withdrawal of service. Addressing journalists in Enugu after its emergency executive committee meeting in Abuja, its President, John Onyebueze, said the government should also implement the July 14 […]
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