NMA instructs doctors at Maiduguri Teaching Hospital to withdraw services

The Nigerian Medical Association has directed all doctors at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital to immediately withdraw their services.

A statement signed by NMA National President, Dr. Osahon Enabulele and made available to DailyPost, said the order will remain effective until the Federal Government guarantees safety of its members.

Medical personnel including the Chief Medical Director of the University of Maiduguri…

Nigeria Islamists behead North Korean doctors

Suspected militants killed three North Korean doctors in north-eastern Nigeria, beheading one of them, in the latest attack on health workers in a nation under assault by a radical Islamic sect.

The deaths in Potiskum, a town in Yobe state, long under attack by the Boko Haram sect, came on Saturday after gunmen killed at least nine…

Girl Grows Nails Instead Of Hair Due To Skin Condition

A rare skin condition is causing one 28-year-old woman hair to grow human nails instead of hair.

Criminal justice student Shanya A. Isom first saw signs of the condition in 2009, when she had an asthma attack that doctors treated with steroids.When Isom had an allergic reaction to the medicine, she developed bumps on her leg and her skin tone began to darken, the…

Nigeria-trained medical doctors blacklisted in the UK

In what is clearly a swipe at Nigeria’s standard of education, doctors trained in the country, rank second on the list of doctors taken off the General Medical Council (GMC) register, in the United Kingdom.

Three-quarters of the medical practitioners that are not on the list, are trained outside the UK, with India-trained doctors topping the list. Nigeria…

Don’t fly me abroad, Injured Gov Wada tells doctors

KOGI State governor, Captain Idris Wada, has told medical personnel of Cedar Crest Hospital, Garki, Abuja where he is undergoing treatment for a fractured thigh not to fly him abroad, his spokesman, Jacob Edi, has said.

Edi told Sunday Tribune, on Saturday, in Abuja, that the governor rejected suggestions that he should be flown abroad for further treatment.

He also…

Doctors Save Man’s Life With Shot Of Alcohol

When Ronald Aldom developed ventricular tachychardia, or an unusual heart rhythm, doctors decided to treat it a little unconventionally. Doctors gave a shot of neat alcohol, or pure ethanol, via a catheter through the blood vessel in the groin that connects to the heart.

For Aldom, 77, from Portishead in England, the ethanol triggered a “controlled heart attack,” and actually killed…

US Based Nigerian Doctors Launch Free Medical Services In Kano

A team of American physicians have begun free medical treatment of residents in Kano state, North West Nigeria.

The exercise which is expected to last for two weeks will carry out surgery on at least 5,000 people and treat another 5,000 out patients.

Leader of the mission, Dr. Chukwuemeka Onwenu, says the mission will not only provide the much needed but barely…

The 19-yr-old who woke up from coma as doctors were preparing to harvest her organs

A teenage girl in a coma after a catastrophic car crash came round just as doctors were about to declare her brain dead.

Carina Melchior had had life support withdrawn on the advice of medics and was being prepared for organ donation. But to the astonishment of staff at the Aarhus Hospital, in Denmark,…

Why Doctors Have Men “Turn Their Heads and Cough” During Physicals

Today I found out why doctors have men “turn their heads and cough” during a physical.

Pretty much all guys have been there at some point or another.  The doctor asks you to drop your drawers.  They slap on their latex gloves, grab your junk, and ask you to turn your head and cough.  One…

Lagos govt vs sacked doctors: Resident doctors begin 3-day warning strike today

Written by Sade Oguntola and Adewale Ajayi Thursday, 31 May 2012

THE National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has given a 14-day ultimatum to go on an indefinite strike if the Federal Government does not prevail on the Lagos State government to…