President, Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Dr. Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, has called for the use of blockchain technology to proffer technical solutions to chain health record storage and access to drive e-health in Nigeria.
He is achieving this by partnering with Decentralised Electronic Health Record (DEHR), developers of a mobile healthcare app and online platform, with a focus on Africa and headquartered in Abuja Nigeria. According to NARD boss, who is a specialist registrar in the department of Orthopaedic surgery at National Orthopaedic Hospital Igbobi (NOHI), Lagos, with special interest in Pediatric Orthopaedics, “Everyone deserves to live in a world that affords them good healthcare safety, dignity and respect. To make sure that Africa is not forgotten or left behind we have made it a duty and obligation to introduce advanced technological healthcare delivery and management system across the country. We will partner with key actors and institutions both publi
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But speaking on the development at a media conference on Friday, Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, said the resident doctors and the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) which had also threatened to go on strike have been asked to withdraw their notices of strike.
“I told them to withdraw because it is arm-twisting. It is not allowed in International Labour Organisation collective bargaining agreement (CBAs) negotiation. So, we expect them to withdraw those notices they gave,” Ngige said.
“JOHESU gave 15-day ultimatum with effect from June 28. NARD gave 28-day ultimatum from when the day they had their national executive council meeting.
Ngige: FG will raise hazard allowance for health workers by 350 percent
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Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, said this while briefing journalists at the end of a meeting between the presidential committee on salaries (PSC), relevant federal government stakeholders, health professionals association and trade unions on Wednesday in Abuja.
According to
NAN, the minister called the meeting to discuss the issue of hazard allowance and retirement age for health workers in government establishments.
Ngige said the stakeholders were able to reach fruitful resolutions in the meeting.
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“The federal government has moved up from the N5,000 monthly hazard allowance paid to all health workers in Nigeria and now offering 350 percent and 600 percent increments for junior workers and senior workers respectively,” he said.
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