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JSS III dropout impersonates doctor, performs operation, kills mum, baby.

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The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 32-year-old Nonlonfun Celestine, a Junior Secondary School dropout for allegedly parading himself as medical doctor.

The suspect was paraded on Monday in Lagos by the state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni.

The father of two met his waterloo when he conducted a surgery on a pregnant woman who died alongside her baby.

The family of the deceased, who were angered by the death of their daughter and grandchild, wrote a petition to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba to investigate the sudden death of the woman and her child.

They said they suspected foul play.

When police operatives stormed the clinic, it was discovered that the suspect, who hails from Badagry in Lagos State, had been parading himself as a medical doctor with fake certificates.

Investigations revealed that the University of Ibadan Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery certificate, certificate of annual practicing license from the Medical and Dental Association of Nigeria and the Certificate of Registration of Business from the Corporate Affairs Commission, with which he had registered his hospital, were all fake.

Celestine said he was enrolled in an auxiliary nursing school in Benin Republic before returning to Nigeria.

Celestine said: “I am from Lagos State but my mother is from Benin Republic. I lived with my mother for over 18 years over there and it was in the country I graduated with a certificate of nursing and returned to join my father in Nigeria in 2004. I started selling drugs at Badagry but later moved to Tomaro in Apapa area where I started a clinic and taking care of the sick within the community.

“The pregnant woman was brought to the clinic by her husband and her brother at about 4am on November, 12. She was convulsing seriously. I administered first aid treatment but she didn’t get better. About four hours later, I called her husband to take her to another hospital for proper medical assistance, but he begged me to continue trying my best because he didn’t have enough money to take her.

“He gave me N8,000 to continue with the treatment and left and came back at about 8pm. I carried out a surgery on the woman and she gave birth to a baby boy who died almost immediately he was delivered?

“Two hours after, the mother also died. I called the husband who was at the waiting room and gave him the news. He was bitter about it. He however came with his family member to take her remains and the dead baby for burial.

“I learnt the woman was buried the following day. I was surprised when some men came to my clinic to look for me. When I stepped out of my office to see who the person was, it was then I discovered they were police officers.

“The policemen then told me they had received a petition about my illegal operation of a hospital in the area by the community leaders and I was arrested.

“unfortunately for me, when I was about taking money from my drawer to bribe the policemen, my fake medical certificate fell off and the policemen picked it up and asked where I got it from and I told them it wasn’t original that I paid to get it from a friend when I wanted to register my clinic.

“I presented my nursing certificate to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration of my clinic but they turned it down. So I had to pay N35,000 to a friend to get the fake certificates. I did not kill woman and the baby intentionally.”

Owoseni stated that the suspect would be charged to court after completion of investigation.

Nigerian Doctor Who Asked Patient ‘Do You Like Big Ones Or Small Ones?’ Is Suspended In Canada

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A tribunal has found Dr. Adekunle Williams Owolabi guilty of all four professional misconduct complaints lodged against him and suspended his licence to practise for six months.

The decision was given Monday in St. John’s, at the professional misconduct hearing against Owolabi conducted by a tribunal panel established by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Newfoundland and Labrador.

At an earlier hearing, Labrador teacher Arlene Johnson testified that when she visited Owolabi for a pelvic exam he made comments that she believed were sexual.

She also said that after the test, he hugged her and whispered in her ear: “You have a beautiful c–t,

does your husband tell you that?”

Another complainant testified that during a pelvic examination, Owolabi asked, “Do you like big ones or small ones?”

She said Owolabi made the comments while she was pregnant, undressed from the waist down, and had her feet in stirrups. There were two female secretaries in the room at the time, she said.

The tribunal said Owolabi’s inappropriate comments and touching of patients showed a lack of respect for the dignity and privacy of patients, which it determined constituted professional misconduct deserving sanction.

Owolabi was given a six-month suspension of his medical licence. The tribunal ordered that he have a chaperone present when he sees female patients for two years after returning to practise.

In addition, he must take a training course about respecting patients and was ordered to pay $75,000 towards the costs of holding a hearing.

Nigeria has Second Largest Number of Paediatric Surgeons In Africa – PAPSA

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The president of Pan African Paediatric, Surgical Association (PAPSA), Prof. Essam Elhalaby, said Nigeria has over a 100 fully trained paediatric surgeons, making her the second largest in the continent after Egypt.

Elhalaby, at the pre conference workshop of the association, said trained paediatric surgeons in the country have a long experience in the field, which would be useful at the conference to proffer solutions to the numerous challenges.

Elhalaby, a professor of paediatric surgery at the Tanta University in Egypt noted that in spite of the high number of these children surgeons in the country, most of them are not practicing in Nigeria, rather in countries like United Kingdom (U.K), or in the Middle East.

According to him between 10 to 20 per cent of this number of surgeons are practitioners outside the country and in Egypt 40 per cent of the total 150 trained paediatric surgeons are in various countries at the moment.
He regretted that this has left a gap in the country’s paediatric surgery field because the few remaining ones are not enough to meet the country’s population.

The PAPSA president identified the continent’s economic problems as a causal factor for the fleeing of so many of African surgeons, because they are well paid for their expertise and also recognized outside the continent.

The conference, which is holding in Nigeria for the first time, he said would pinpoint the needs of the available trainees in all African countries as well as proffer non conventional solutions in the field of paediatric surgery.

Elhalaby highlighted some of the major challenges of the specialty peculiar to Africa as lack of manpower and facilities, Non availability of paediatric nurses and anaestisiologists, delayed diagnoses and late reporting and transport challenge in some remote areas.

He lamented that more than 12 countries in Africa do not have even a single paediatric surgeons; hence surgeon in other field handles paediatric surgeries, which is not the best.

Addressing the conference’s theme, “ Total Surgical Health For The African Child,” he noted, “ African children should not be deprived of safe and quality healthcare like their counterparts in the western world.”

Similarly, the Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Prof. Chris Bode, remarked that the trial with child healthcare in the continent is multiple as most of them are denied access to interventional surgeries by their ignorant parents.

Bode, a consultant paediatric surgeon, rhetorically asked if children should pay for surgery and healthcare in the country whereas childcare is free from zero to 14 years in some counties. “No child should die or suffer because they cannot access healthcare or surgery care,” he added.

As a professor of paediatric surgery, Bode pointed out that the problem of financing child and aged healthcare in the country could be tackled and sustained with innovative policies.

He advanced, “if the national health insurance scheme which presently does not cover up to 10 per cent of Nigeria’s total population is extended innovatively, it would take care of children and surgery.”

The LUTH CMD maintained if the primary and secondary healthcare systems are strengthen, lots of preventable diseases including surgical conditions would cost less and the tertiary would focus on the complex conditions which they truly known for.

“Healthcare is something people seek when they need, so it should be affordable, available and accessible to children especially because they are the future. This country should be able to finance free childcare if we reorganize and reorder our priorities,” he appealed.

Hillary Clinton healthy, ready to serve as US President – Doctor

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In-depth medical records of U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton were released on Wednesday, showing her physical conditions are good.

“She continues to remain healthy and fit to serve as President of the U.S.,” said Dr Lisa Bardarck, Clinton’s personal doctor.

The former U.S. secretary of state fainted at a 9/11 memorial ceremony on Sunday and has since stayed home.

Bardarck said the former secretary of state suffered from a “mild, non-contagious bacterial pneumonia.”

The rest of the physical exam “was normal and she is in excellent mental condition,” Bardarck said in a letter to the media, saying that she examined Clinton several times this week.

“My overall impression is that Clinton has remained healthy and has not developed new medical conditions this year other than a sinus and ear infection and her recently diagnosed pneumonia,” she wrote.

The Democratic nominee is expected to return to the campaign trail on Thursday and due in several battleground states next week, said her campaign team on Wednesday.

Clinton’s Republican rival Donald Trump will also reveal the results of his own recent medical exam during a TV show set to be aired on Thursday, said a daily report by The Hill, a top U.S. political website.

A video of Clinton’s faint at Ground Zero on Sunday has returned the issue of health transparency to the central stage in the two candidates’ White Housebids.

Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia two days before she fainted on Sunday but her campaign team had kept it quiet until the video was put online.

The September race is unexpectedly rough for Clinton. A series of national poll results showed that her lead over Trump has been narrowed since Labour Day.

FG Enforces ‘No Work No Pay’ Policy At LUTH

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Implementation of the Federal Government’s ‘no work no pay’ policy is in effect at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, Lagos.

 

It was gathered that over 500 nurses have forfeited five weeks salaries and about 20 doctors, two weeks salaries, following their participation in an industrial action.

 

The nurses, under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), LUTH chapter, have been on strike for seven weeks, protesting non-promotion of 71 members and poor conditions of service. The doctors belong to the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD).

 

It was learnt that money was not deducted from the salaries of nurses and resident doctors on annual leave during the strike.

 

Nurses and doctors who confirmed the development preferred anonymity. They, however, said the associations have met and have decided to shut down the hospital, this week, with a fresh round of industrial action.

The nurses suspended their 52-day-old strike Tuesday, August 3, 2016. The management of LUTH, led by Chief Medical Doctor (CMD), Prof. Chris Bode, had warned before and during the action that they could lose their salaries to the ‘no work no pay’ rule.

 

It was noted that the policy, by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, is in effect in all government institutions.

 

The nurses on June 10, 2016, began an indefinite strike protesting, among other things, lack of promotion for members and non-payment of salary arrears.

 

It was learnt that the nurses agreed to suspend the strike following assurances that their demands would be met. Some of the demands have already been resolved by the management.

Doctor Rapes Woman During Abortion

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A doctor allegedly raped a woman during an abortion procedure two weeks after he masturbated in front of her during a physical examination, a court has heard.

According to Tribune 242, after Dr. Gerald Mark Forbes informed the 20-year-old she would need a medical examination to work at his clinic in Freeport, the Bahamas, last February, he was alleged to have rubbed her vagina and masturbated before her.

The report added that two week’s later, after the victim asked him to terminate a pregnancy, he was accused of raping her during the procedure.

The 47-year-old is also said to have given the alleged victim a packet of Methotrexate, a drug used to induce abortions.

The defendant told the police as heard by the Grand Bahama Court that the woman was a ‘friend of a friend’, who simply worked at his office for two months. He denied the allegations of rape and indecent assault.

However, he refused to answer officers when asked about the alleged incidents, telling them he ‘had nothing to say’.

The court was told that in a WhatsApp exchange that took place after the alleged rape, the doctor told the woman he didn’t owe her salary because he had provided her with medication.

During the police interview an officer told him, “The virtual complainant informed you that she will not return to work because she was uncomfortable that you violated her, and you said you were sorry she felt that way and you told her to still come in for follow-up and medication.”

The trial resumes at 11am on Friday.

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Lassa Fever Hits Kaduna, Kills Pregnant Woman, Doctor, 1 Other

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A pregnant woman and two health workers have been confirmed dead following the outbreak  of Lassa fever in Kaduna.

The three people including a medical doctor who was undergoing his national youth service year as a corp and a community health nurse died at the Saint Louis Hospital in Zonkwa, area of Zango Kataf local government of the state.

The doctor and the nurse it would be recalled contacted the lassa fever disease after conducting an operation on a pregnant woman who later died of the same disease two weeks ago.

Confirming the outbreak, the state commissioner for health, Professor Jonathan Andrew Nok told journalists, that two weeks ago, there was a pregnant woman that visited the Saint Louis Hospital after she was referred from a clinic in Kamuru.

‘‘She was pregnant and an operation was conducted on her by the doctor and nurse. She subsequently died.”

He added: “The two individuals that died were the people that actually attended to the pregnant woman. She died about two weeks ago. No one thought they would die like that after the woman. The woman died of lassa disease. She was buried properly. And it was after her death that symptoms of lassa started to show on the medical doctor and the community nurse.

“The doctor and the nurse died after they had high temperature consistently for four days,” said the commissioner.

He said that the doctor and nurse showed signs of lassa fever shortly  after operating a  pregnant woman who was brought in from another hospital in from a primary health care centre in Kamuru in the same local government.

‘‘The woman later died few days after they were tested positive to lassa.’’

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Doctor Dies Of Lassa Fever In Rivers

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A medical doctor with Rivers State-owned Braithwait Memorial Specialist Hospital, BMH, Dr. Livy Ijamala, has died from Lassa Fever, bringing to three the number of people killed by the disease in the state.

 
Chairman of the state branch of Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Dr. Furo Green, disclosed this yesterday in Port Harcourt, saying the late doctor, Ijamala, who died in the early hours of yesterday from the ailment, had contact with patients infected with Lassa Fever.

 

 

Dr. Furo added that the late medical doctor had been buried in line with recommendations of World Health Organization, WHO, for deaths from contagious diseases.

 
He also said a team from WHO had already visited the hospital for assessment, adding that the hospital had been decontaminated and that those who had contacts with the late Dr. Ijamala had been placed on observation.

 
He said: “Last night, one of our hard-working doctors in the department of obstetrics gynaecology, Dr. Livy Ijamala, lost his life following infection with Lassa Fever.

 
This is the price medical doctors and health personnel pay for offering health services to the public.

 
“The hospital is being decontaminated as we speak. All medical doctors and healthcare personnel that had primary contact with the late medical doctor have been placed under observation.”

 
… as doctors begin strike
He also said medical doctors in the state were on three days strike to protest the frequent abduction of medical doctors in the state.

 
He said within the week two of his colleagues, Dr. Isaac Opurum and Dr. Ib Aprioku were taken hostage at separate times. He said in 2015, 21 doctors were abducted in the state.
According to him, the warning strike was to draw attention to the plight of medical doctors.

 
He said: “While we are not happy to go on strike, the strike now appears to be a blessing in disguise because fewer doctors and patients came to the hospital today, thereby, reducing the rate of contacts among medical doctors and patients.”

 

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