Archives Tag: Nigerian Doctors

Politics

April 19, 2022

Almost two weeks since Nigerian doctors resumed strike action, there has not been much progress on how to resolve the recurring issues bedevilling Nigeria’s health sector. The strike action by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) lingers on without any respite in sight. Following a Memorandum of Action (MOA) signed in April by the … Continue reading Buhari’s Medical Tourism and the Doctor’s Strike

By adedoyin

News

April 19, 2022

Nigerian resident doctors are on strike. Stale News! Yes, they have been on strike since Monday following the Federal Government’s alleged failure to meet demands bordering on their welfare. What is interesting however is that striking doctors are to repeat internship. According to the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, the ongoing strike by members of … Continue reading Nigerian Resident Doctors on Strike

By adepeju

Health

April 19, 2022

I have a thing about doctors: I don’t like them. I’ve had to visit the hospital a few times too many in my short life and each time this thing for doctors worsens. While I realize that doctors are important, I mean I run to them anytime anything aches, I think they’re doing us a disservice. My beef … Continue reading Doctors and Herbal Medicine

By nnedinma

Around Town

April 19, 2022

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo received at the Presidential Villa, Dr Oluyinka Olutoye, the US-based Surgeon who successfully led a medical team to a fetal surgery and won global acclaim for the feat. The surgeon from Ido Ani in Ondo State received global attention at Texas Hospital in 2016 after successfully carrying out a surgery on a … Continue reading Osinbajo Receives Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye Who Extracted a Tumor from a 23-Week Old Foetus

By adepeju

Health Personality

April 19, 2022

There’s been a buzz recently about a surgical operation carried out in the United States which ultimately led to a baby being born twice- in a sense. But it wasn’t a medical stunt done by doctors seeking cheap publicity by toying with human life. It was a life-saving operation, one in which surgeons had to … Continue reading The Baby Who Was Born Twice and the Nigerian Doctor Who Helped Save Her Life 

By ikenna-nwachukwu

Events Science & Technology Uncategorized

April 19, 2022

  In the world’s fight against cancer, new technology is a welcome development. The same is to be said of the high tech Cancer-Spotting Goggles invented by Dr. Samuel Achilefu, a Nigerian, a professor of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Director of Optical Radiology Lab (ORL) at Washington University in St. Louis. … Continue reading Dr. Samuel Achilefu Creates High Tech Cancer-Spotting Goggles

By mary-odunuga