Tag: Nigerian Doctors

A source at the doctors' meeting told PREMIUM TIMES that the discussion centred on the federal government’s response to the ...

The NEC resolved that any assault case on our members will result in immediate disengagement from all services.

This was made known in a statement issued on Friday and signed by the Special Adviser to the President on ...

In December 2021, Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige proposed that the Federal Government should make health workers trained ...

Migrants risking their lives while trying to cross into Europe. Picture credit: AP Foto/Irish Defence Forces Earl Lewis admonishes us ...

About four doctors broke down last weekend due to stress.

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

Medical referral kickback increases the cost of medical services by at least 20 per cent and is a leading cause ...

A PREMIUM TIMES’ investigation revealed how leading medical diagnostic companies are colluding with doctors and hospitals to scam Nigerians through ...

The doctors said the claim by a Nigerian-born U.S. doctor, Stella Immanuel, that COVID-19 has a cure is unproven.

The doctors say the strike will be "indefinite."

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

"No, I am not worried… we have a surplus. If you have a surplus, you export…” minister Ngige had said.

About 1200 doctors, of 1600 produced yearly, leave the country.

"If the council is not constituted, we will take decisive steps that will make people know that we are serious ...

The official says the doctors are in various teaching, public and private hospitals in South Africa.

Medical doctors' threat over JOHESU has reignited concerns about their wide edge above all other skilled workers in the civil ...

Non-doctors have been on strike for three weeks.

The health and socio-demographic indices of Nigeria are a source of shame and ridicule to every patriotic citizen of Nigeria.

JOHESU, the association of other health workers apart from medical doctors and dentists on Wednesday began an indefinite strike

The NMA says the JOHESU strike is targeted at doctors.

“Nigeria should brace itself to losing more of its doctors," an emigrant doctor says.

Over 400 medical and dental graduates failed the induction examination last year that enables them to practice in Nigeria.

The VP identifies underfunding, neglect and corruption as blights affecting the sector.

The Nigerian government says it is reviewing whether public sector health professionals can engage in private practice.