Tag: Doctors

The association said some arrears for 2014, 2015, and 2016 have remained unpaid despite several negotiations with the government.

The state is facing a shortage of doctors five years after the government scrapped a programme that sponsored medical students ...

Nigerian health workers had downed tools many times in the past over the government’s failure to review the salary structure ...

The NMA chairman said the problem of brain drain had been on since 1960, as many leave the country on ...

Mr Rowland said Nigerian doctors are poorly paid, overworked, lack necessary work tools, “and have become a target for kidnapping.”

NARD says there is a need to properly fund the health sector to arrest the brain drain in the country.

Nigeria has the highest number of doctors in the UK after India and Pakistan.

Nigeria is second only to Indians in the number of visas granted for the ‘Skilled Worker - Health & Care’ ...

The doctors said both the Federal and state governments had defaulted on agreements reached in the past

At least three doctors have been abducted in the state since January, the NMA said.

The doctors said a female colleague “was forcefully held hostage, confined, and verbally assaulted by a senior nurse.

“Why should any doctor or nurse lose his license because of FGM that can’t fetch him more than N3,000?"

The doctors on Wednesday carried placards to protest the assault, demanding that the management's urgently treats the affected doctor.

This is coming one week after PREMIUM TIMES reported that the union issued a 21-day ultimatum, accusing the government of ...

"I have spent more than N3.5m on this ailment, but I don't have money anymore to continue the treatment and ...

"Most patients go to hospitals to seek medical care without knowing if the doctors in attendance are qualified to cater ...

On 2 August , NARD members had commenced the industrial action over what they described as poor treatment by both ...

The lawyers noted that the industrial court’s judgment ordering all doctors back to work fails to address the doctor’s concerns.

While the federal government and the striking doctors continue to bicker, patients who throng public health facilities get little or ...

"The lives of citizens that could be lost or damaged when doctors withdraw services, are precious enough to be worth ...

The striking doctors have stuck to their guns, saying the government’s hard stance would not force them to suspend its ...

Members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) embarked on strike on August 2 to protest repeated failure by ...

The association also decried the undue hardship its members on GIFMIS platform are facing due to the delays in payment ...

Ms Amanpour said the past four weeks, during which she has not appeared on CNN, has been "a bit of ...

The NMA insists that the state government pays its members’ salaries in full and that it should ensure that it ...