Tag: Nma
Why Medical workers are fleeing Niger State – NMA
The Niger chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), has advised the state government to improve the working environment of…
Doctors donate drugs to Kogi flood victims
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Kogi Chapter, on Friday, donated drugs to flood victims at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)…
Association tasks Kogi Govt on doctors’ welfare
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has appealed to the Kogi Government to give utmost priority to the welfare of doctors…
NMA raises alarm over medical quackery
The Cross River chapter on the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has raised an alarm over the increasing rate medical quackery…
NMA sets up medical centre at Plateau IDPs camp
The Plateau chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), has set up a medical centre at the Internally Displaced Persons…
Alleged Corruption: Medical Association dissolves FCT executive
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has dissolved its FCT chapter executive council over alleged corruption.
Strikes: NMA advocates PPP for hospitals
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has advocated Public Private Partnership (PPP) in management of hospitals to promote effective and efficient…
JOHESU Strike: NMA calls for adequate security at public hospitals
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has called for provision of adequate security at public hospitals to enable doctors and contract…
JOHESU strike: NMA decries attacks on doctors, patients in Enugu
Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Enugu State branch, has decried incessant attacks of its members and some patients by striking members…
Strike: JOHESU, NMA disagree on salary structure
The Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) has disagreed with the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) on the sustenance of a wide…
Measles Immunisation: NMA believes Lagos can achieve set target of 3.6m children
The Lagos State Government can achieve the set target of immunising 3.6 million children against measles if it is systematic…
N13.6m fraud: EfCC arraigns former NMA Chairman, 4 others in Edo
A former Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), in Edo State, Dr. Emmanuel Ighodaro, was Tuesday arraigned at a Benin…
Imminent health crisis in Edo, as NMA commences strike on Friday
Impending strike by medical doctors in government hospitals in Edo State could plunge the health sector into another crisis, following…
Medical Doctors In Bauchi Set To Join NMA Strike
Medical doctors at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Azare, Bauchi State, on Wednesday, said they had yet to join the…
Mental healthcare: NMA advocates access to health facilities, manpower
A psychiatric specialist, Dr Christopher Piwuna, has advocated access to affordable mental healthcare services and adequate personnel as panacea to…
Epidemics: NMA Solicits Local Production Of Vaccines
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has called on the Federal Government to encourage local vaccines production to ensure adequate supply…
NMA bars doctors from treating commissioners, advisers
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), has directed its members to stop attending to health needs of commissioners , special advisers…
NMA releases identity of doctors Involved in tragic crash, declares mourning
Nigeria Medical Association, NMA on Monday declared one week mourning for its six members who died in a fatal motor…
Appeal to your members, not Buhari —Osun Govt tells NMA
The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on Friday described as misplaced the call by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA)…
Police shoot doctor during peaceful protest in Owerri
A member of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Imo State branch, participating in a peaceful demonstration against the concession of…
Two doctors kidnapped in 48 hours in Rivers
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Less than 48 hours after Dr Mrs I.B. Apriokor, an Ophthalmologist with the Braithwaite Special Memorial Hospital,…
Gunmen shoot NMA chairman
Yusuf Muhammed Three armed men suspected to be hired assassins on Wednesday shot the Chairman of the Ijaiye-Ojokoro, Lagos chapter…
NMA urges Lagos to pay withheld emoluments of doctors
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Lagos State Chapter, on Sunday appealed to the Lagos State Government to pay the withheld…
Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak In Nigeria: The Issues At Stake
By Jaye Gaskia My worry is that we might end up with a situation where only a few highbrow public…
Mother, Triplets Detained In Hospital Over Bill
Jethro Ibileke/Benin A Delta State-based fashion designer, Godswill Echenim, has appealed to the state government in southern Nigeria, and the…
NMA applauds FG reversal of residency programme
Dr Kayode Obembe, National President, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), on Friday commended Federal Government’s reversal of suspension on residency programme…
Federal Govt Lifts Suspension On Resident Doctors
The Federal Government has lifted the suspension of Residency Training Programme in all federal hospitals with effect from Thursday, 28…
House of Reps want NMA to apologise to Nigerians over strike
The House of Representatives Committee on Health on Monday called on the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to apologise to Nigerians…
NLC commends NMA suspension of strike
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Monday commended the decision of the Nigerian Medial Association (NMA) to suspend its 55-day…
Amosun lauds doctors for calling off strike
Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, southwest, Nigeria has commended the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) over it’s decision to call…