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Our bleeding wound: Are Nigeria's doctors justified for leaving? OpEd

By Nigeria Health Watch
February 19, 2020
9 Mins read
Editor’s Note: A U.S news politics report that recently trended online showed how Nigerian immigrants have carved a niche in the United…
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Thought Leadership

Ageing but not infirm: Getting Geriatric care right in Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch
September 6, 2018
7 Mins read
Editor’s Note: This week’s Thought Leadership Piece comes from Nigeria Health Watch Editorial Assistant Beti Baiye. She explores the world of geriatric…
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Top 10 Health News

Top Ten News Items on Health, 29th September 2017

By Nigeria Health Watch
September 29, 2017
1 Mins read
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…
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Top 10 Health News

Top Ten News Items on Health, 11 August 2017

By Nigeria Health Watch
August 11, 2017
1 Mins read
Nigeria Records Poor Outing as Only 23% of Children Get Immunised. Revamp PHCs in your states, Health Minister urges governors. FG plans relocation of…
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Top 10 Health News

Top Ten News on Health, 04 August 2017

By Nigeria Health Watch
August 4, 2017
1 Mins read
FG set to achieve 50% exclusive breastfeeding by 2018. Counterfeit drugs: Nigeria sets up coordinated centres for drugs distributors. NCDC advises on prevention of…
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AfricaNigeriaThought Leadership

Three reasons Strikes will continue in Nigeria's Health Sector

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
September 1, 2015
4 Mins read
No part of public service in Nigeria has experienced more strikes than the health sector. Right now, public tertiary hospitals in Nigeria…
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Thought Leadership

Demonizing Nigerian Doctors - an Agenda for Change

By Ike Anya
September 30, 2014
7 Mins read
Reflecting on the recent doctors strike, and the threat by other health sector workers of further strikes, we took a fresh look…
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Thought Leadership

Another MANSAG meeting in the UK

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
December 12, 2012
4 Mins read
Each year, the umbrella group for Nigerian Doctors in the UK, MANSAG, holds an annual conference. The 2012 conference held recently in…
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Thought Leadership

A lose, lose, lose situation...

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
June 7, 2012
2 Mins read
Doctors employed by the Lagos State Government have been on strike. Subsequently 788 of them were sacked by the Lagos State Government,…
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Thought Leadership

To protest, or not to protest - a doctor's dilemma

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
January 17, 2012
3 Mins read
The protests on the withdrawal of petrol subsidies in Nigeria has provided doctors with an ethical dilemma. Do they join the protests…
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Thought Leadership

GMC withdrawal of recognition from some Nigerian medical schools: a lesson in poor information management

By Nigeria Health Watch
December 17, 2011
4 Mins read
The General Medical Council in the United Kingdom recently posted on its website a list of medical schools whose primary medical qualifications…
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Thought Leadership

My visit to UNTH – a dream deferred

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
April 3, 2011
6 Mins read
I was recently in Enugu, and visited my medical school – the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH).  I had lunch in…
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Thought Leadership

How did it get to this full blown crisis in our health sector?

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
February 24, 2011
3 Mins read
The simmering crisis in our public health care sector has now become a disaster as staff working in hospitals managed directly by the Federal…
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Thought Leadership

Crisis in the health sector - but who cares?

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
January 31, 2011
1 Mins read
We have spent the last few months in the Nigerian press quarrelling about “zoning”. Almost no airtime is given to the issues…
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