Category Archives: Africa

Trending: FBI arrests top Nigerian Doctor, Patrick Nwaokwu for training quacks as nurses in USA

Posted on by 43 comments

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has nabbed Nigerian medical doctor, Patrick Nwaokwu, for his involvement in multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud. Mr Nwaokwu, 50, was arrested on July 9, barely 24 hours after the U.S. issued a warrant of arrest on July 8. The medical doctor alongside his associates, Musa Bangura and Johanah Napoleon face charges for “conspiracy to commit healthcare

Read more

The national nursing leader takes a firm stance on allowances and nurses’ welfare

Posted on by 2 comments

Nnachi said that the subject of hazard allowances had been political, and that nurses earned the greatest pay in the health sector since they were exposed to the most dangers.

Read more

Foul Play: Autopsy reveals that nurse Caroline Mwenesi died as a result of surgery complications.

Posted on by Leave a comment

The family now plans to seek legal redress as they accuse the hospital of medical negligence that led to her death.

Read more

Walking nurses in Kenya bring a virus vaccine to the interior.

Posted on by Leave a comment

” I have been wondering when the vaccine will reach me. I was just hearing over the radio and did not know whether it will reach those in the rural areas,” Rosemary Aluoch, vaccine recipient in Lunyu village said.

Read more

Nasarawa Assembly passes College of Nursing, Midwifery bill

Posted on by Leave a comment

He also said that the bill would boost health manpower development in the state, if finally asented to by the governor.

Read more

Intervention scheme in Niger state PHCs ends nurse-patient rift and improves service delivery

Posted on by Leave a comment

After an antenatal appointment in July 2020, Rasheedatu noticed that the world had changed. Upon leaving, she was astonished at how warmly the health care workers welcomed her and was eager to tell her husband.

Read more

Court acquits and discharges suspects in the assasination of an Enugu nurse

Posted on by One comment

The Nigeria Correctional Service has been holding them for over two years.

Read more

Patients battling Covid-19 are cheered up by military nurses dancing.

Posted on by Leave a comment

The lyrics of the hugely popular It Ain’t Me remix sounded through the halls of 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria when ICU nurses put on a dance performance to bring cheer to patients fighting Covid-19 and to uplift their own spirits.

Read more

In Malaysia, a Nigerian man was sentenced to death for killing a nurse.

Posted on by Leave a comment

According to the judge, “the accused’s claim that he was no longer with the victim on May 8, 2019 and had left the home by that time is just a denial.”

Read more

THE NURSING ASSOCIATION CONDEMNS IN STRONG TERMS THE FALSE ALLEGATION BY THE GOVERNOR

Posted on by Leave a comment

It is painful to note that on Thursday 22nd April 2021, two Nurses were kidnapped while on Night duty at Idon Rural Hospital, rather than the Government to show empathy and concern for the whereabouts of these two Nurses, the family and the leadership of the Association, what our members experience are intimidation, victimization, attacks, threats here and there.

Read more
« Older Entries Recent Entries »