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Six weeks after thousands of residents and interns at South Korean hospitals walked off the job, frustration is rising. Patients have filed more than 2,000 complaints about surgeries and other treatments being postponed, canceled or refused, according to the national health ministry. Hospitals have closed wards and restructured staff. Nurses …

The University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, has threatened to begin strike on April 9 if the hospital is not reconnected to electricity.   UCH owes the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company up to N495m and  the teaching hospital was disconnected from public power supply as a result.   Subsequently, doctors, …

The Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, at the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan in Oyo State have commenced a three-day strike.   ARD President, Dr. John Oladapo said the resident doctors are embarking on the strike due to the assault on one of their members on Sunday, March 3, by …

Okore gave the warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos. According to her, a worrisome trend of parents switching from infant formula to cow milk (adult milk) as a cost-cutting economic measure in Nigeria has emerged. Okore, who noted that the trend …

A video has emerged of the moment heavily armed Israeli military commandos disguised as Muslim women and doctors to raid a West Bank hospital early Tuesday morning, January 30, shooting three suspected terrorists dead in just 10 minutes.   The dramatic surveillance video from Ibn Sina hospital in the town …

Kogi state’s house of assembly majority leader has been accused of leading an attack against doctors at the federal teaching hospital in Lokoja, after losing a loved one.    The attackers were also accused of destroying some equipment at the hospital and also disarming the security guard who tried restoring …

The governor of Abia state, Alex Otti, has stated that investigations by the state government had uncovered on its payroll some doctors who left the state employment and migrated abroad to seek greener pastures, in what is commonly known as japa.     The state governor, Alex Otti, disclosed this …

President Bola Tinubu has appealed to Nigerian medical practitioners in the diaspora to return to the country to serve Nigerians and to contribute their quota to the development of Nigeria’s medical sector and also to serve Nigerians.   The President made the call at the unveiling of Nigeria’s Health Sector …

“They spoke about death as if they’re going down to the grocery and speaking about which ice cream they will buy,” Dr. Mozer-Glassberg said. The war has hit women and children especially hard in Gaza as well. They make up many of the 15,000 people reported killed in Gaza since …

Social media influencer and medical doctor, Harvey Olufunmilayo has slammed the Minister of Communication, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani over a plan by the FG to engage in Telemedicine. It all started after Dr. Bosun (pictured top right) posted a tweet asking Nigerian doctors based abroad what they …