It was October 2013; I remember this month with so much pain in my heart. My family had just lost one of our finest -- perhaps the finest of us, to the cold hands of death, aided by the failing Nigerian medical system. She was my aunt, who doubled as a mother. She was clearly the best caretaker I had as a young [...]
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The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has threatened to go on strike if a key demand of the striking health workers under the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) is met.The health workers are asking, among other things, to be at par with doctors in terms of salary — which the NMA said is "callous and ill-motivated".The JOHESU strike, which has been [...]
It was the night of December 22, 2002. I was rushed to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan. I was terribly sick; the hospital had no oxygen as at the time I was admitted, and I was severely low on oxygen. I missed a date with death by a few seconds. I needed a miracle and God showed up -- [...]
Ben Bruce, senator representing Bayelsa east, says while Nigerian doctors are protesting meagre salaries, their Canadian counterparts are protesting for being paid “too much”.Writing via his Twitter handle on Thursday, Bruce said Nigeria cannot pay its doctors well “but we can budget ₦1.1 billion to clean a government office”.“At a time Canadian doctors are protesting that they are being paid [...]
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 million to 750 million in the [...]
Sometime in July last year, I “strutted” to a hospital to have a niggling problem in my system checked out. The hospital is a popular one in the federal capital territory. After quotidian protocol, I was asked to wait to see a doctor. I sat in the lobby chipping away at time on my mobile phone. I was called in [...]
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has refused to call off its strike despite meeting with the federal government over its action.On Wednesday, a federal government delegation led by Isaac Adewole, minister of health, and Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, met with the leadership of NARD to resolve the problem. The meeting spilled into Thursday.In a statement [...]
Although civil rights and liberties are mostly expressly given either constitutionally or statutorily, right to strike is not anywhere in the extant Nigerian labour laws. The right stems from series of protection and immunities granted to the actions of striking unionists in the first place; and as a derivative of the constitutional right to peaceful assembly and association in the [...]
A federal government delegation led by Isaac Adewole, minister of health, and Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, on Wednesday, met with the leadership of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD).On Monday, the association declared a nationwide strike owing to the failure of the government to meet its demands.It is, among other demands, asking the government to pay [...]
Medical doctors in Osun state on Thursday staged a protest in Osogbo, the state capital, over unpaid salaries and poor condition of hospitals in the state.The doctors trooped out from the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital and moved to the popular old garage.From there, they proceeded to the Ola-Iya junction and stopped at Oke-Fia roundabout.Chanting various anti-government songs, the doctors [...]
Hellen Wasilwa, a Kenyan judge, has ordered that leaders of the national doctors’ union should be jailed for one month.Doctors in public hospitals have been on strike since December 5 to protest working conditions in public hospitals, among other issues.A court had ruled that the strike was illegal in December and in January, Wasilwa sentenced the union leaders to jail [...]
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Wednesday ended its seven days warning strike, and gave the federal government 21 days ultimatum to meet its demands.John Onyebueze, president of the association, made this known in an interview NAN.The doctors had embarked on a 7-day warning strike on January 18. Their demands border on welfare, revamping decay infrastructure and equipment [...]
Medical records contain vital information about patients’ health status and serve as guides to doctors that follow up patients’ healthcare in various health institutions.These are essentially medical records of the people with whom patients literally entrust their lives.But medical lawyers say many health care workers and patients, especially in Nigeria and Africa, seem not to know this.Patients, according to medical [...]
The Lagos state high court has ordered the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) not to hold a fresh election in the state.This was disclosed in a statement signed by Omojowolo O, chairman of the association in Lagos; Kenneth Uwajeh publicity secretary; and Alabi BAM, secretary.New officials of the association were elected on Wednesday, but a group not satisfied with the exercise [...]
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has announced a medical fellowship for doctors in developing countries.Midcareer staff who qualified to become doctors between October 1, 2007 and September 30, 2010, can apply for a Commonwealth fellowship to spend a learning period of three to six months at a UK university hospital.The fellowship will commence on October 1, 2017 and [...]
The leadership of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has agreed to suspend its strike after a meeting with other health sector stakeholders on Tuesday.The association's leadership also appealed to members to relax until the next meeting scheduled for July 14.The decision emanated from the meeting between resident doctors and other stakeholders, organised by Yakubu Dogàra, speaker of the [...]
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