Tag: Nigeria Medical Association (NMA)

The association, among other suggestions, called for adequate funding of security and the deployment of modern technology to fight crimes ...

Each month 5,000 Nigerians travel abroad seeking medical attention. This amounts to expenses totalling $1 billion annually.

The NMA says it is ready to partner with the state ministry of health to battle cholera or any other ...

The kidnappers demanded N20 million and it was unclear whether the money was paid.

“My appeal is that they return to the negotiating table so that whatever outstanding issues can be sorted out."

The doctors strike entered the ninth day on Saturday, crippling activities in public tertiary hospitals.

The NMA says the regular supply of supplemental oxygen has reduced COVID-19 mortality in Kwara.

The NMA says the deceased health workers include consultants, professors and resident doctors.

Mr Iheanacho, who owns Peace Hospital located along old Egume road, Ayingba, was abducted at his residence in Anyigba last ...

This petition follows a 20-month investigation that showed how patients are being swindled by doctors, hospitals, and diagnostic centres

The doctors also sought a joint training with the corps on basic life support and activities of special marshals.

The doctors accuse the Fayemi-led administration of lacking the goodwill to earn their trust.

The federal government said it is yet to accredit any private hospital to manage coronavirus.

Cases of Coronavirus continued to rise all over the world last week as Nigeria also grappled with its perennial Lassa ...

The world celebrated 40 years of the eradication of smallpox virus as the Nigerian Medical Association warned that it will ...

An official said less than half of Nigeria's 72,000 registered doctors are practising in the country.

At least 28 million children in 19 states are expected to be vaccinated in a large scale immunization campaign against ...

Family Dentistry, ORL-HNS, and Anaesthesia had four, five, and seven convokes, and the number of candidates applying for the examination ...

The National Health Act 2014 makes the possession of Certificate of Standards mandatory for health institutions in Nigeria

Nigerian doctors allege harassment by the police.

Five new deaths were recorded from Lassa Fever in three states.

About 10 consultant physicians had left the service of the state government since June 2018.

The Act, though signed into law in 2014, has been largely unimplemented.

According to him, the menace of quackery has reached an alarming stage.

“UCH reserves 14 bed spaces for fistula patients. But this has now been expanded to 21 bed spaces."