Our bleeding wound: Are Nigeria's doctors justified for leaving? OpEd
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Editor’s Note: A U.S news politics report that recently trended online showed how Nigerian immigrants have carved a niche in the United…
Ageing but not infirm: Getting Geriatric care right in Nigeria
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Editor’s Note: This week’s Thought Leadership Piece comes from Nigeria Health Watch Editorial Assistant Beti Baiye. She explores the world of geriatric…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 29th September 2017
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Six million Nigerian under-five children stunted due to malnutrition – UNICEF. FG to Provide ARV for 50,000 Additional People Living with HIV Yearly. JOHESU…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 11 August 2017
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Nigeria Records Poor Outing as Only 23% of Children Get Immunised. Revamp PHCs in your states, Health Minister urges governors. FG plans relocation of…
Top Ten News on Health, 04 August 2017
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FG set to achieve 50% exclusive breastfeeding by 2018. Counterfeit drugs: Nigeria sets up coordinated centres for drugs distributors. NCDC advises on prevention of…
Three reasons Strikes will continue in Nigeria's Health Sector
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No part of public service in Nigeria has experienced more strikes than the health sector. Right now, public tertiary hospitals in Nigeria…
Demonizing Nigerian Doctors - an Agenda for Change
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Reflecting on the recent doctors strike, and the threat by other health sector workers of further strikes, we took a fresh look…
Another MANSAG meeting in the UK
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Each year, the umbrella group for Nigerian Doctors in the UK, MANSAG, holds an annual conference. The 2012 conference held recently in…
A lose, lose, lose situation...
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Doctors employed by the Lagos State Government have been on strike. Subsequently 788 of them were sacked by the Lagos State Government,…
To protest, or not to protest - a doctor's dilemma
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The protests on the withdrawal of petrol subsidies in Nigeria has provided doctors with an ethical dilemma. Do they join the protests…
GMC withdrawal of recognition from some Nigerian medical schools: a lesson in poor information management
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The General Medical Council in the United Kingdom recently posted on its website a list of medical schools whose primary medical qualifications…
My visit to UNTH – a dream deferred
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I was recently in Enugu, and visited my medical school – the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH). I had lunch in…
How did it get to this full blown crisis in our health sector?
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The simmering crisis in our public health care sector has now become a disaster as staff working in hospitals managed directly by the Federal…
Crisis in the health sector - but who cares?
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We have spent the last few months in the Nigerian press quarrelling about “zoning”. Almost no airtime is given to the issues…