Monthly Archive: July 2018

2018 ONLINE EXAMS: Ghana Nursing Council Conducts Online Mock Examination

2018 ONLINE EXAMS: Ghana Nursing Council Conducts Online Mock Examination

In order to offer first-hand experience to candidates who would be writing the Registered Mental Nursing (RMN) licensing examination online, the Council has conducted an online mock exams for 362 RMN candidates. The examination...

University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital Assault on Nurse Update:The True Story

University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital Assault on Nurse Update:The True Story

This is the correct version of the story as copied by eto. Nigerian Doctors Resort to Beating Nurses in Turns – The Firsthand Story of The Assaulted Nurse in UMTH Barely a month after...

Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) Press Release on Suspended Doctor

Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) Press Release on Suspended Doctor

ARD response on the suspension letter issued to Dr Nuwar Alhaji Modu who slapped Nurse Goodness Chidinma Ebikwe in the Male Surgical Ward UMTH. Imagine, they will even take a legal action on the...

The Stethoscope Does Not Make A Doctor; Attitude Does By Ikechukwu Ogbu

The Stethoscope Does Not Make A Doctor; Attitude Does By Ikechukwu Ogbu

Someone said, “Mental Status Assessment (MSA) should be deployed as a prerequisite criterion before and during clinical practice as a medical doctor in Nigeria.” The implication of the above admonition is the obvious: there...

School of Nursing Oncology Offers Education to Best Care for Patients

School of Nursing Oncology Offers Education to Best Care for Patients

School’s back for the summer, as Physicians’ Education Resource (PER)® hosts the 2nd Annual School of Nursing Oncology™ to help provide the latest information on key oncology topics that can be readily applied to nursing...

Doctors, family can decide to remove sick relation’s life support, court rules

Doctors, family can decide to remove sick relation’s life support, court rules

Judges will no longer need to be consulted when doctors and relatives of patients in a vegetative or minimally conscious state agree that life-support treatment should end. The ruling by the supreme court on...

Doctors Don’t Need Court Approval To End Care For Patients In A Permanent Vegetative State Court Rules

Doctors Don’t Need Court Approval To End Care For Patients In A Permanent Vegetative State Court Rules

Legal permission is not required for doctors to stop life-prolonging medical treatment for patients in a permanent vegetative state, says the Supreme Court. Ina ruling today, the UK’s highest court found that withdrawing treatment...

Nicaragua Sacks 40 Doctors for Treating Injured Protesters

Nicaragua Sacks 40 Doctors for Treating Injured Protesters

Authorities in Nicaragua on Monday sacked 40 more doctors for tending to those injured in recent protests, local media reported. According to the report, the health ministry fired some 40 doctors and nurses at...

Why Are So Many  South Africa’s Doctors Are Killing Themselves

Why Are So Many South Africa’s Doctors Are Killing Themselves

Professor Bongani Mayosi, the University of Cape Town medical dean and world-renowned cardiologist who committed suicide on Friday, made it is his life’s work to eliminate rheumatic heart disease in Africa. Much of his...

Nigeria: El-Rufai urged to address perpetual shortfall in doctors’ salaries

Nigeria: El-Rufai urged to address perpetual shortfall in doctors’ salaries

The Kaduna state chapter of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has called on Governor Nasir El-Rufai to correct the perpetual shortfall in salaries of doctors in the state. Addressing newsmen in Kaduna on Monday ahead...