Olubunmi Dosunmi of a Chief Magistrate Court in Akure, Ondo State has sentenced Martins Duclarie, a Camerounian, to two years in prison for illegally operating medical facilities in the state. According to facts before the court, Duclarie had been practising as a fake medical doctor for 30 years in the state. He was said to…
Ebola: Willoughby, Sierra Leone’s Foremost Doctor Dies
Victor Willoughby, Sierra Leone’s foremost Ebola physician has been confirmed dead after contracting the deadly infectious disease. Brima Kargbo, Sierra Leone’s chief medical officer said Willoughby died earlier today just a few days after he tested positive for Ebola. The death of Willoughby makes it the 11th doctor in the country to die from the…
First Heart Surgery on Foetus Performed in India
Doctors at a hospital in the southern city of Hyderabad have reportedly performed a heart surgery on a foetus in a 25-year-old woman’s womb. Nageswara Rao, the cardiac surgeon, said in Hyderabad that in a medical feat, the surgery was the first to be carried out in India. The doctors at Care Hospital said that…
FG Recalls Sacked Resident Doctors
The Federal Government has lifted the suspension of Residency Training Programme in all Federal hospitals across the country with effect from Thursday, August 28, 2014. The FG has also reinstated all resident doctors that were disengaged as a result of the suspension with effect from the same date. Accordingly, all Chief Medical Directors and Medical Directors…
