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Medical Council Arrests over 30 Quacks, Sanctions 122 Practitioners

The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria  (MDCN) said efforts to rid Nigeria of quackery wer…

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Fidson Leads Fight Against Diabetes

Concerned about the increasing rate of diabetes in Nigeria, Fidson Healthcare Plc has joined the I…

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Pneumonia is Second Killer Disease Among Infants – FG

The Federal Government on Tuesday in Abuja stated that pneumonia remained the second highest kille…

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Medical Guild Awards First Consultant Hosptial, Adadevoh, Others

The Guild of Medical Directors yesterday at a ceremony gave an award to the First Consultant Hospi…

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Strike: Health workers Withdraw Emergency Services

…Patients discharge selves Lagos — RIPPLE effects of the indefinite strike embarked…

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Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) Asks C’ River to Reverse Health Facilities’ Concession

The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria has urged the Cross River State Government to urgently rever…

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Supervising Labour Minister Moves to End Health Workers Strike

The Supervising Minister of Labour and Productivity, Alhaji  Kabiru Turaki, has intervened in…

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Doctor Saves Man Using CPR, Hours After Giving Presentation At CPR Conference

  A doctor who presented research on the importance of CPR during the American Heart Associ…

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Govt Reconciliation Attempts Destroying Sector – MDCAN

The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) has said that attempts by govern…

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Patients Groan as Health Workers’ Strike Paralyses Federal Hospitals

SIX days into the nationwide strike embarked upon by health workers under the employ of the Federa…

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Health Workers Vow to Continue Strike

Striking health workers under the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) in Kaduna State said yesterd…

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Medical Doctor, Three Others Sacked Over Alleged Insubordination

BENIN—Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Uselu, near Benin City, Edo State, has sacked a me…

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Ebola: Sierra Leone Doctor Dies in US

A surgeon from Sierra Leone who was being treated for Ebola in the US has died, a Nebraska hospita…

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Health Workers’ Strike Paralyses Hospitals

The on-going strike by health workers, under the aegis of the Joint Heath Sector Unions in federal…

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NANNM Calls on NUC to Create More Departments of Nursing in Universities

The Natioinal Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives has called on the Nigerian universities c…

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JOHESU STRIKE: Consultants to Provide Skeletal Services at LUTH

As a fallout of the recent JOHESU Strike, the management of the lagos university teaching hospital…

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Doctor Being Treated for Ebola in Omaha Dies

    A surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone, Dr. Martin Salia, di…

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MDCAN Deplores JOHESU on Consultancy Status

  The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) deplored the Joint H…

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Federal Government Inaugurates Committee on Alternative Medicine Tech

The Federal Government has set up a committee to rebrand, refocus and re-engineer alternative medi…

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Health Workers Strike Bites Harder

…as patients abandon federal hospitals   The strike embarked upon by the Joint Hea…

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