The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD), have decried the poor state of welfare for healthcare workers in the face of threatening hazardous and fatal diseases outbreaks such as Lassa fever and the coronavirus (now officially named COVID-19) in the country.
The President of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors on live broadcast exposed the deplorable state of the Nigerian Health Institutions
The raging fire of COVID-19 pandemic is putting enormous pressure on healthcare equipment, including personal protective equipment (PPE) such as gowns and N 95 respirator face masks. So given the possibility of the global shortage of N 95 respirator face masks, it is essential to draw experience from previous viral pandemic on the effectiveness of…
Viruses are the most common biological entities on Earth. Experts estimate there are around 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of them, and if they were all lined up they would stretch from one side of the galaxy to the other. You can think of them as nature’s own nanotechnology: molecular machines with sizes on the nanometre scale equipped to…
POSTPONEMENT OF COLLEGE MARCH – JUNE 2020 FELLOWSHIP EXAMINATIONS The Management of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria wishes to inform all our Fellows, Associate Fellows, other Doctors, our CBT Centres and the General Public that the above examinations have been postponed due to the Coronavirus scourge and our collective response to it. An…
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a new virus that had not been previously identified in humans.The virus causes respiratory illness (like the flu) with symptoms such as a cough, fever and in more severe cases, pneumonia. You can protect yourself by washing your hands frequently and avoiding touching your face. How…
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has called on the Nigerian government to protect health workers across the country from getting infected with the coronavirus. The medical practitioners made the call in a statement on Saturday by the publicity secretary of NARD, Dr Egbogu Stanley. They specifically directed their request to the Federal Ministry…