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In a move reflecting cautious optimism, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has called off its five-day warning strike, initiated on September 12, 2025, after receiving assurances from the Federal Government to address longstanding healthcare challenges. The decision, announced on Sunday, September 14, 2025, comes amid Nigeria’s ongoing struggle to bolster its fragile healthcare

The Association of Resident Doctors, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (ARD-UITH), commenced a five-day warning strike on Friday as part of a coordinated nationwide effort to advocate for improved working conditions in the health sector. Speaking with journalists in Ilorin, ARD-UITH president Mariam Shiru said the action aligns with ongoing efforts by the national body

Xolile Mtembu | Published 1 month ago Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has raised alarm over what it calls a 'distressing and unacceptable' crisis in South Africa’s public healthcare system, where anti-illegal immigrant groups are blocking foreign nationals, many of them pregnant women or patients with chronic illnesses from receiving treatment. MSF says its teams have

Desperate doctors have been forced to make decisions about who receives chemotherapy and who does not, with some oncology units left with only a single vial of the potentially life-saving treatment...

The Executive Secretary of the Kwara State Hospital Management Board, Abdulrahman Malik, disclosed that there is an acute shortage of medical doctors in the state-owned hospitals.  Speaking at the state interministerial press briefing for the first quarter of 2025 on Tuesday, April 29, Malik said that due to the ‘Japa’ syndrome, doctors do not want to

The NHS is seeing its longest-ever period of industrial action with tens of thousands of junior doctors joining picket lines across England. Members of the British Medical Association (BMA) are striking for three days in the “most extensive disruption for the NHS and patients since a wave of industrial action by healthcare workers began in December”...