Tag: Nigeria Medical Association

The over-a-decade-old insurgency has seriously affected the health sector in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe states, with many health centres destroyed ...

The suspects did not take their plea.

Unfortunately, the cost to the public treasury of Buhari’s health tourism is not known.

Mr Ikpeazu’s administration has responded to the accusation.

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

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

The Chairman of the NMA FCT Chapter, Enema Amodu, made the appeal on Sunday at a news conference.

The governor of the state last week asked residents of the state to buy arms to protect themselves from the ...

Mr Babalola says the current 1999 Constitution foisted on Nigerians by the military is no longer in tune with the ...

The suspect admitted before reporters that he was not the owner of the medical certificate in his possession.

The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) commenced an indefinite strike on Thursday.

NMA said 30 other medical doctors are in self-isolation in the state, following contacts with their infected colleagues.

“There is incessant harassment of health workers in FCT even when they show their ID card."

The affected health workers included two doctors and one nurse, an official said.

A total of 27 states and the FCT have recorded at least a case of the disease.

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) is the mother body for all doctors practicing in Nigeria.

Of all confirmed cases of Lassa fever, 74 per cent are from three states.

The association sets a three-pronged agenda for the ministers.

Only one Nigerian doctor is available to cater for every 4,845 citizens, available statistics show.

The association urges Mr Bello to stop the 'internal drift' in the health sector.

The House also-ran proceeded on its annual six week recess.

“We are not safe and we want people to know that we cannot go to work because we are not ...

NMA state chapter threatens withdrawal of services.

In 2017, within Calabar alone, five doctors and three of their dependants and family members were kidnapped.

Two cases each were confirmed in Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom states, one each in Enugu State and Abuja.