Health
New Report Reveals That Only 42,000 Out Of The 75,000 Licensed Doctors By The NMA Are In Nigeria To Cater For The Over 200 Million People
Francis Faduyile, the president of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has revealed that only 42,000 out of the 75,000 registered Doctors by the association are presently working in Nigeria.
The NMA president further revealed that the 33,000 missings have left for greener pastures, which implies that Nigeria has one of the worst health indices in the world.
According to ThisDay Newspaper, Faduyile attributed this massive movement of Nigerian Doctors to a high rate of insecurity, bad roads, unemployment, poor job satisfaction, and the poor healthcare system.
The NMA president gave an account of the collapsed healthcare system;
“In rural communities, we have one doctor attends to 22,000 people, while one doctor attends to 10,000 or 12,000 people in towns and cities. However, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that for any country to have a balanced ration, that country must have a doctor to 600 patients
“Doctors in Nigeria and other healthcare workers like pharmacists and nurses are leaving the country in their large numbers because of the poor healthcare system and lack of job satisfaction.
“For example, the UK alone employs about 12 Nigerian doctors weekly. If Nigeria graduates 3,000 doctors yearly, without them leaving this country, it will take Nigeria about 25-years to attain the WHO estimate of one doctor per 600 persons.
Nigeria is losing some of its most talented, most educated and professional healthcare handlers to countries like Senegal, Ghana, South Africa, Namibia, and other countries.
“This is because the Government is not showing concern about giving adequate priority to lack of equipment to intervene and save lives, low funding, no appropriate employment, insecurity, bad roads, among other challenges.
“Therefore, this is affecting the country as more people are suffering due to unavailability of healthcare workers, people are losing their lives as a result of the poor healthcare system and Nigeria has one of the worst healthcare indices around the world” he affirms
The Health Ministry in Egypt has confirmed the first case of the deadly Coronavirus. The authorities made this disclosure on Friday 14th February in a press release. They said the World Health Organization has been informed and the patient is in isolation for monitoring and treatment.
The patient’s nationality was not given. However, Egypt is the 28th country in the world to record Coronavirus and the first in Africa.
So, over 64,000 cases of the Coronavirus have been diagnosed around the world and 1,363 persons have been confirmed dead since its outbreak in Wuhan, China
Health
Nigerian And Other Foreign Nationals Nabbed In India For Promising To Sell Kidneys To Over 200 People
The police in Bengaluru on Sunday nabbed a gang of six which include two Sudanese nationals and a Nigerian. They were, therefore, arrested for duping over 200 persons promising them to sell or buy kidneys online.
So they claimed to have been authorized by the WHO and had wrongly used the name of a hospital and a reputed medical doctor to deceive people seeking kidney transplants.
Those arrested are; Jatin Kumar, 25, Kami Ranjan, 21, from Bommanahalli, Herendra Tripura, 25, from Tripura, Marwan Faisal, 27, Sudan, Ahmed Ismail, 24, Sudan, Esene Lovely, 29, Nigeria
So, they were arrested by tracing the mobile numbers listed on their website after a doctor in a private hospital; Dr. Shafiq M.M complained.
Also, the police recovered ATM, account details, and SIM cards and cellphones after a search was carried out.
Also, it was also gathered that the names of reputable doctors were mentioned to convince their victims. Further, they collected money ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs 60,000 pretending to issue insurance and register over 200 people.
However, the Nigerian, Esene Lovely, Ismail, and Marwan have overstayed their visas in India.
The release of a video showing a Nigerian father refusing medical assistance for his sick daughter, precious, has brought about many outrageous statements. The father claimed that his church, Jehovah’s Witness is against the transfusion of blood.
Harrison Gwamnishu, the activist who shared the video has met with the girl’s parent in Sapele. Precious, who is suffering from Hydrocephalus might need a blood transfusion if she undergoes surgery.
The father said he agrees to medical help but will never consent to blood transfusion to be done on his 1 year and 7 months old daughter.
”We in Jehovah’s witnesses, we don’t take blood. I would not want to transfuse blood into the child. We will not accept a blood transfusion. If in the course of surgery they would transfuse blood in the child, we would not want that. I don’t want my baby to die but that is our faith” the father said
