Monthly Archive: July 2018

Health department debacle: Doctors unable to access community service jobs

Health department debacle: Doctors unable to access community service jobs

Doctors go through a tedious and frustratingly slow process of approval, an experience that leads to some emigrating to practice in other countries. The department of health’s application portal for doctors hoping to apply...

Patients trust their secrets to doctors, not the government or the tax office

Patients trust their secrets to doctors, not the government or the tax office

hat is that antibiotic I am allergic to that sounds like penicillin but isn’t? What happens when I take ibuprofen? Did my last ECG have a left or right bundle branch block? Am I...

Tandabui Institute of Health Sciences And Technology 2018/2019 Application Form and Joining Instruction

Tandabui Institute of Health Sciences And Technology 2018/2019 Application Form and Joining Instruction

Tandabui Institute of Health Sciences & Technology (TIHEST) application for 2018/2019 admission session is currently on . Students come from across the United Republic of Tanzania and other parts of the world representing diverse...

JOHESU Open Letter To Nigeria’s President

JOHESU Open Letter To Nigeria’s President

HQ/JOHESU/ADM/VOL.III/582                      25th July, 2018   His Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR President, Federal Republic of Nigeria and Commander in-Chief of Armed Forces Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.   Your Excellency,   REJECTION OF THE 2014 PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE OF...

Meet a Registered Nurse Who Followed Her Dream to Become a Mechanic

Meet a Registered Nurse Who Followed Her Dream to Become a Mechanic

Callie Milne was 25 when she quit her career as a nurse and followed her dream. The Newcastle resident always had a strong interest in cars and was 14 when she first thought about...

Nigerian Male Nurses, Student Nurses Relive Stereotype Encounter with Patients

Nigerian Male Nurses, Student Nurses Relive Stereotype Encounter with Patients

Decked in a sparkling lab coat, Nurudeen Ajani recalled with sadness the event that led him into nursing. He noted that it was a day he hated to recollect, adding that he thought his...

Where Are The Nurses In The HIV Response?

Where Are The Nurses In The HIV Response?

Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, nurses have been at the forefront of the response to this once fatal infection. The nurse is involved at every stage of the trajectory of a person...

India: Hospitals Hire School DropoutsTrain Them as Nurses To Cut Costs

India: Hospitals Hire School DropoutsTrain Them as Nurses To Cut Costs

“Anyone who has passed their Class 10 board exams is hired by private hospitals, who give them six-month training to become a ‘practical nurse’.” Nurses have always been in the front line of healthcare....

Terrorist Raid School of Midwifery in Afghanistan

Terrorist Raid School of Midwifery in Afghanistan

A team of jihadists raided a school for midwives in Jalalabad, Afghanistan yesterday. The terrorists were finally subdued after several hours by security personnel, who took great care to limit civilian casualties. The Islamic...

Federal Medical Centre Yola Loses Nurse Al-Mustafa Muhammad Inuwa in Ghana

Federal Medical Centre Yola Loses Nurse Al-Mustafa Muhammad Inuwa in Ghana

We received a shocking news of the death of Al-Mustafa Muhammad Inuwa a staff with the Nursing Services Department of the Federal Medical Centre, FMC Yola Adamawa, Nigeria Al-Mustafa died in the morning at...