Category: Health

The leadership of the Nigerian Medical Association on Sunday met with leaders of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors as part of efforts aimed at ending the resident doctors’ lingering strike.. The meeting held barely 48 hours after the leadership of NMA met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. At the meeting, […]

Less than 48 hours after the leadership of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) met with President Muhammadu Buhari on ways to end the crises in the health sector, striking resident doctors have insisted that they would not return their duty posts. The resident doctors, under the aegis of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors NARD) […]

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President Muhammadu Buhari has assured striking doctors the payment of all genuine outstanding debts as he urged them to return to their duty posts. In a statement by his media aide, Garba Shehu, he promised that “Debts genuinely owed Health workers will be settled.” The president gave the assurance on Friday during a meeting with […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday called on striking health workers to return to their duty posts. He also urged others contemplating strikes to opt for settlement of issues by negotiation, no matter how long it takes. The president made the appeal when he hosted members of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) at the State House, […]

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), has called on the government to checkmate security challenges in the country. It said the problem impacts the health sector in the form of brain drain, industrial disputes, ineffective funding through overriding defence budgets, and a decline in efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare interventions. NMA disclosed this in a communiqué, […]

Striking resident doctors have called the Federal Government’s bluff for invoking the no-work-no-pay policy by stopping their salaries. However, there were indications that states across the country might also adopt the Federal Government policy by equally denying the protesting doctors their salaries. But the doctors said rather than being intimidated by the Federal Government’s action […]

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has warned that unregulated goods and products are harmful to human health. The agency’s Director General, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, gave the warning on Thursday in Benin City, Edo State, at the continuation of its nation-wide sensitisation programme. She said that it has become apparent to […]