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We are Licenced, Eligible to Practice in Nigeria and Other Countries – Foreign Trained Doctors
Doctors under the umbrella of Foreign Trained Doctors, FTDs have said that licence were specially given to them upon completion of their programme abroad to enable them practice in Nigeria and in other countries. The doctors said contrary to Dr Tajudeen Sanusi, Registrar, Medical Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN who claimed that only 8 out of 695 doctors were given licence where they studied; said that licence from countries of graduation was one of the criteria for their registration for MDCN programme.
Compulsory Treatment Of Gunshot Victims, Six Other Bills Signed Into Law By President Buhari
The bills are Niger Delta Development Commission (Establishment) Amendment Act, 2017, Federal Capital Territory Water Board (Establishment) Act, 2017, National Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (Establishment) Act, 2017, Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act, 2017, Anti-Torture Act, 2017 and Federal Capital Appropriation Act 2017.
The Cross River branch of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has called on the state government to declare a state of emergency on security in the state due to the kidnapping of its members.
The Oyo State chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association on Tuesday said its members in public and private hospitals will begin a three-day strike from Wednesday, January 10, 2018 to protest what it described as the unfair treatment of doctors at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso.
The Vice Chancelor of Eko University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Lagos, Prof. Muheez Durosinmi, has lamented the inadequacy of medical doctors in the country. He said Nigeria had yet to attain the recommendation of the World Health Organisation of one doctor per 600 hundred patients.
President Muhammadu Buhari has named four heads for major health institutions across Nigeria. The president appointed Ajayi Adekunle as Chief Medical Director, Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti, Ekiti State.
He appointed Henry Ugboma as Chief Medical Director, University of Port-Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.
A survey conducted by Mamaye Evidence for Action (E4A) has shown that only eight out of the 27 Secondary Health Facilities in Bauchi State have functional blood banks. E4A is a UK-funded project with focus on addressing maternal and child health challenges.
The threat of another deadly epidemic of Cerebro Spinal meningitis (CSM) persists in Nigeria as the country enters into another high-risk season (dry season- from November to May) for meningitis, measles and other infections.
Concerns persist over the continuing failure of the authorities to take obvious measures to check the recurrent disease.Last year’s outbreak became an epidemic, despite the country’s past experiences with the disease and early warnings by local and international health agencies of its imminence.
Three health workers at Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, have died from Lassa fever and another one person is ill after two people were confirmed positive for the virus.
Among the dead were two medical doctors and nurse while the suspected carrier survived and has been discharged. Ebonyi health commissioner Dr. Dennis Umezurike said the fresh outbreak occurred on Sunday.
Minister of Health Isaac Adewole, has alerted the Nigerian public of cases of food poison with listeriosis in South Africa. Listeriosis is food poisoning from eating food items such as meats, dairy products, fruits and vegetables contaminated with the bacteria listeria monocystogene.
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Health minister warns Nigerians of meningitis, explains inability to vaccinate all citizens
Nigerians have been warned to be on alert and take preventive measures against Cerebrospinal Meningitis, CSM, as this is the season of the deadly disease. The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, who gave the warning, said the federal government cannot afford to vaccinate every single citizen against the disease at the moment.
According to Mr. Adewole, CSM, a seasonal disorder, is easy to diagnose but the protective vaccine is very expensive.
The National Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has confirmed that Ebonyi State has notified it of a cluster breakout of Lassa fever in the state. The health agency in a press statement on its website on Monday said it was notified of four cases of Lassa fever among health care workers in the state on Sunday.
“Three of the four cases have subsequently passed away,” it stated
Thousands of babies are still dying daily from preventable causes – and pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and malnutrition are killing millions of under-fives in the developing world.
Progress is being made on young children’s health, with the under-five mortality rate almost cut in half since 2000. But sadly millions will still never reach their fifth birthday. In fact, children in sub-Saharan Africa are 10 times more likely to die before the age of five than children in high-income countries.
THE constant training and retraining of medical practitioners has been identified as a strategy that would effectively curb medical tourism the State and in Nigeria at large. Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode It is on record that the nation loses an estimated one billion dollars annually to medical tourism mostly as a result of inadequate investment in the nation’s healthcare system.
The failure of the health system is often attributed to the penchant for medical tourism embarked by prominent Nigerians, a major contributor to the current spate of brain drain, loss of confidence in the sector along with patient drain and capital flight abroad. No less than 37, 000 Nigerian doctors are in the diaspora, with about 30, 000 in the United Kingdom.
