ENUGU — Health professionals and workers in Enugu State under the auspices of Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, during a visit to the Government House Enugu on Tuesday, received a long-awaited approval of increment in salary to match their contemporaries in other states of the federation; The Joint Health Sector Unions comprise members of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, Nigeria Union of Allied Health Professionals, NUAHP, and Medical and Health Workers...

Prof Innocent Ujah, the president of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) says an estimated 40,000 doctors treating the 200 million population in Nigeria has been was exhausted. Ujah attributed it to doctors leaving the country seeking greener pasture in other countries. “By the WHO standard, one doctor should treat 600 people, but in Nigeria, one doctor treats about 4,000 people and that still depends on one’s location,’ He said. Dr. Fatima Damagun, a family physician...

ABUJA — The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has refused to assent to a new memorandum of understanding brokered by the Nigeria Medical Association to bring an end to the three weeks old strike that has crippled medical activities in government hospitals across the country. The President of the doctors’ union, Uyilawa Okhuaiesuyi, did not mention the clause in the MoU that informed him to decline it. According to him, the leadership of NARD...

ABUJA — Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire says Consultants doctors and corps members are to fill the void left behind by the resident doctors who are on strike. Recall that the Resident doctors embarked on a nationwide strike on August 2, citing irregular payment of salaries and hazard allowances. The minister told State House Correspondents on Thursday in Abuja that it is the wrong time for doctors to embark on strike as the country...