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MEDICAL AND DENTAL COUNCIL OF NIGERIA (MDCN) NEWS
1. The New
ultramodern MDCN House was officially commissioned on 6th of
December 2010 at 11am.
The House is located off Oladipo Diya Avenue, Kwara
District, Abuja. Hence forth, all activities of the MDCN
shall be conducted from the new MDCN House.
2. Practicing fees of Doctors Registered by MDCN who reside
and practice outside the country.
a. There will be moratorium on the payment of the backlog of
praticing fees up till the end of December 2010
b. However, Doctors are requested to make full payment of
practicing fees from the date they return to the country
to practice.
c. Doctors who wish to practice both at home and abroad
should make full payment.
d. from 2011, Doctors who leave the country and inform MDCN
of their intention to practice outside the country only will
be exempted from payment of practicing fee during the period
of practice outside the country.
3. As from year 2011, obtaining required number of credit
units in CME/CPD will be a criterion for renewing the annual
practicing license for all doctors in Nigeria. Cfedit unit
forms are to be filled and submitted with the renewal of
practicing license forms at the end of the year.
The issue of CME/CPD must be taken seriouslyby all doctors
in Nigeria.
4. All foreign Doctors who want to practice in Nigeria must
be duly registered with MDCN and must obtain work permit
before
they can practice.
AGM 2008
HELD ON 30th of JULY, 2009 AT THE STATE BANQUET HALL
OPPOSITE GOVERNMENT HOUSE KWARA STATE, ILORIN.
Preamble/Protocol
The Chairman/ past Chairmen, Medical Elders and the entire
members of
NMA. All other protocols duly observed.
The present Executives of the NMA Kwara State branch were
elected in to office on July 19th ,2008. It is stating the
obvious that, in the last one year, our association has
recorded unprecedented achievements in recent times. Let me
seize your attention as I take you through a year journey of
countless success stories in the area of structural
facelift, closeness to the State Government, successful
tackling of challenges from the UBA loan facility lor
members and sustenance of the achievements of the last
executives.
1. STRUCTURAL FACELIFT OF NMA SECRETARIAT
The entire NMA secretariat has been given a comprehensive
structural facelift. Total de-roofing of the building and
immediate replacement with aluminium roofing sheets and
plastic ceiling of the main hall were done eight months ago
to put to an end to the recalcitrant leaking roof of the
secretariat. This project was carried out with the Nl.8
Million Naira loan taken by NMA from UBA.
About two month; ago secretariat renovation committee,
comprising of Drs' Aiyejumoh, Adebola and Fowotade was set
up to carry out painting of the entire secretariat to be
jointly financed by NMA and MDCN, acquire a new split 2HP
A/C for the Chairman's office and furnishing of the same
,office, only the furnishing is yet to be completely
executed.
2. CLOSENESS TO THE STATE GOVERNMENT
The present NMA Executive led by Dr. Olokoba was able to
establish a long awaited relationship with the State
Government through advocacy, lobbying, and constructive
engagements with government on health issues and welfare of
medical personnel. This greatly changed the disposition of
government favourably towards our association which has been
openly demonstrated by the new 18seater bus given to NMA
and 2 slots for hajj approved for the association on yearly
basis. The magnanimity of the government to the association
was crowned by the tremendous support towards the ongoing
A.G.M. 2009 activities both in kind and in cash.
NMA Kwara State is now being consulted by the State
Government on health issues for our professional input.
It is also instructive to note that the State Government has
intimated the association of her desire to elevate the
medical facilities in some selected slate hospitals and also
10 employ specialists in order to deliver improved medical
services to the masses. Already, a letter of advertisement
for those posts have been sent to NMA secretariat which has
since been sent to all the Affiliates.
3. CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
NMA contributed to the alleviation of sufferings of the
victims of flooding of Asa River that happened during the
last year raining season. The victims were relocated to the
Muslims' hajj camp at Adewole where the association made
donations of food items and toiletries materials.
4. WELFARE PACKAGE
i. The present executive has been able to improve the
welfare of doctors in the service of State Government
through positive engagements with the dynamic State
Commissioner for Health. Infact, the doctors now enjoy a 15%
pay rise after a bipartite meeting between the NMA and the
State Ministry of Health. The meeting also sensitized the
government to future upward salary review.
ii. Also doctors in the service of the University of Ilorin
now earn full call duty allowance through the successful
negotiation with the authority of the University.
iii. The association sought and obtained two expanse of land
adjacent to UITH permanent site for members to buy and
develop. The two phases has been allocated to the
beneficiaries except for minor hitches which are being
rectified because the available land was oversubscribed for,
the last AGM mandated the NMA land committee to seek for the
third phase which has been acquired and members have started
paying for desired number of plots.
iv. Repayment of the UBA loan facility which the last
executive disbursed to members is still on going with the
successful liquidation of the first batch of beneficiaries
last May. We have been able to maintain a constant low
interest rate on the loan facility despite FG backed hike in
the bank interest rate and this was achieved through a
robust negotiation between the association and the UBA.
5. MDCN PRACTICE FEES
The central collation system that was met on ground is being
sustained. The secretariat coordinates the collection of the
forms and the fees. This is promptly sent to the Resident
Representative of MDCN in Kwara State, Dr. Fagbayi. The
receipts and the certificates are promptly dispatched to the
affiliates as they arrive
The state has MDCN monitoring committee headed by Dr.
fagbayi. the committee met once since the inception of the
current executives. however, inspection and monitoring of
private hospitals has not started.
6. REMUNERATION AND WAGES
The association has been able to pay their staff up to date.
leave bonuses has also been paid. Recently there was upward
review of salary for all the secretariat staff to boost
their morale and motivate them to work harder.
7. STATE OFFICERS (SOC)/ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (SEC) MEETINGS
The 2008/2009 year had two SOC, three SEC and two ESEC
meeting with four ordinary and two Emergency General
Meetings: The activities of the association were organised
and carried out by the respective officers in accordance
with the collective decisions taken at such meetings using
the provisions of the associations state bye-laws as our
guide.
New Deputy Chairman for the association was elected in
February to represent the· then incumbent who relocated from
State.
8. NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL (NEC) MEETING AND ADM, EDM
The state branch of the NMA attended all NEC meetings and
ADM. The meetings were held in Awka, Gombe and Abeokuta. A
meeting of all state Chairmen national NMA NOC and the
Honourable Minister of Health and EDM were also held in
Abuja about two months ago. The Issues discussed at those
meetings have been related to the menbers of our great
association.
The Kwara NMA was, involved in the decision of the NMA
national on the issuance of ultimatum to the FG on the
resolution of MSS and MSSS for Nigerian Doctors at the
Abeokuta ADM with the MSS/MSSS which the NMA has been
pursuing in the past eleven years may soon come to reality
by the end of September.
9. DEATH OF ONE OF THE SECRETARIAT STAFF
During the out gone year, a member of our secretariat staff
died after a brief illness. He is Mr Rahim Ibrahim, a
security man. May his soul rest in peace.
10. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
i wish to appreciate the tremendous zeal of the chairman in
taking the association
this far.
My thanks also go to the SOC and SEC members for their
efforts and contributions in the area of secretariat
activities.
I must also show my appreciation to the secretariat staff
for the support at various times, odd and even.
It is imperative for me to appreciate all members of this
association for their support, encouragement and valuable
advice.
My sincere gratitude goes to the ex officio I and II for
their timely advice and privately and publicly which has
contributed to the smooth running of secretariat activities.
Finally, I wish to appreciate my family for their patience
and almighty God for
his grace. .
Thank you.
Dr Sulieman Zakari
NMA Kwara Secretary General |
