The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) said efforts to rid Nigeria of quackery were yielding positive results as the council has arrested more than 30 quack doctors and those practising illegally, and also facilitated the conviction of 14 of them at the courts within four years of its creation.

This was disclosed on Tuesday in Abuja during the 51st anniversary of the council by the Registrar of the MDCN, Dr. Abdulmunin Ibrahim, stating that in the area of discipline of practitioners, the council has investigated over 1,550 complaints, where 122 practitioners had been sanctioned so far.

Ibrahim also disclosed that the number of training institutions in the country accredited by the council has increased from one, which was University College Hospital, to 31 in the country within the last 50 years.


“The council has successfully introduced indexing of medical students in medical schools to ensure that training institutions keep to their allotted admission quotas thereby ensuring that standard is maintained.”

He explained that while the council has instituted and enforced the continuing professional development programme, since 2011, the medical and dental practitioners registered presently is over 70,000, from a little over 1,000 in 1963.

Chairman of the Governing Board of the Council, Prof Jonathan Azubuike, appealed to the federal government to allow the council carry out its functions without frequent disruptions.

He explained that if the council was given the enabling support and equal opportunities, the celebration should have taken place in 2013 “but in that year, there was no council in existence and that explained the 50 plus one.

“In the first 25 years of our existence (1963-1988), our existence was never tampered with. In the second phase of our existence, 1988-2013, the MDCN was allowed to do the job, for which it was statutorily created for only 15 years.”

Azubuike contended that for the remaining 10 years, the council did not exist as it was dissolved out of existence.

He said “the regulatory functions we were supposed to carry out, setting standards for the training of medical and dental undergraduates in the universities as well as regulating the practices of the medical and dental professions in Nigeria, could not be done during these periods the council was in limbo.

“Our plea remains the same, and it is simple, we should be allowed to do the job assigned to us, without frequent disruptive dissolution.”

SOURCE:http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/medical-council-arrests-over-30-quacks-sanctions-122-practitioners/194493/

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After how many years?

Are there quacks in the medical field?
Well, I wouldn't know, cos itz none of my bizness..... I schooled in Papua New Guinea

Why wouldn't there be fake doctors? After nyanshing all d university babes
, collecting outrageous scolarships, and procuring recommended eye-glasses due to 'over-jacking' while in medical school, some of these medical students still get thrown out of med school in their final year


Wetin dem want make these guys tell all their 'nyanshees', all the peeps they have looked down on in the university, and all their acquaintances who have been hailing them prematurely as 'MY DOCTOR '


Appearances have to be maintained! Make una free my guys jare

This happen when you give them practitionership ((engrush)) instead salary.
some still suppose to be serving under a qualified doctor and collect salary, since Government no wan give them salary them give them practitioner post and in turn they give us death due to quackness ((engrish)) con from quack.

Pls can sumbody summarize d passage in one sentence for me??

Good move

I wish the nursing and midwifery counciL could also do the Same. SMH

Nail all the bastards down ....................
na them dey do operation forget scissors inside person belle...........

Death go reduce

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U NA DON COME AGAIN

They should clamp down on them real hard. One's health is too important to be left in the care of quacks.

Ehya!

Why?
Who certified them quacks?




































But how does dat worry me?
I am a WINNER and so I can NEVER be sick, I don't need doctors!

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@Topic. Quack Doctors full my area oooooh na dem dey do Abortion wella.

But the rate at Which Doctors Charge has made Nigerians to seek help with most Quack cheep Doctors.

Poverty na bastard

ok

:DThats a qud start.....




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no be God

A good native doctor is better than a quack medical doctor.
Lol

They should enter General and Government Hospitals.

Lots of Quacks are there.

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I dnt even no what to comment @ dis juncture...

kunlesehan:
A good native doctor is better than a quack medical doctor.
Lol

Of course. Native doctors are just overrated in this country

kunlesehan:
A good native doctor is better than a quack medical doctor.
Lol

Of course. Native doctors are just underrated in this country

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No wonder we are suffering from high mortality rate in Nigeria. Good job though. #SackEveryQuackWhateverInNigeria