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Eid Mubarak 🌙✨ May this season of celebration bring peace, renewed strength, and good health to you and your loved ones. As we continue in service and care, we wish all our Muslim colleagues and community a joyful and fulfilling Eid. #EidMubarak #LASUTHARD

Happy International Women’s Day to all the amazing women making a difference in LASUTH-ARD and beyond. 💗 #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026 #LASUTHARD #WomenInMedicine

Today we celebrate the strength, compassion, and resilience of women everywhere who continue to heal, lead, innovate, and inspire within our healthcare system. Your dedication to patient care, medical excellence, and mentorship shapes the future of medicine every day.

PRESS STATEMENT

It is quite unfortunate that officers of the Nigerian Military will resort to physically assaulting a Doctor at his duty post in the Accident and Emergency Unit of COOUTH in Anambra State. When it has gotten to a point where even defenders of the sovereignty of Nigeria see Doctors as punching bags, we must acknowledge as a Nation that something is wrong. This will not go viral and ganer the much needed attention and action, but when NARD declares a Solidarity Strike on behalf of our battered colleague until the needful is done, you begin to hear voices of reason. The Nigerian Resident Doctor it appears is becoming an endangered specie very rapidly, Nigeria and Nigerians should rise up to defend Healthcare workers. P-MUS of NARD 06:03:2026

your endeavors. Let us continue to uphold our commitment to humanity with grace, ensuring that your tireless efforts are met with the success and recognition you truly deserve Tope Omotoyinbo PRO LASUTH ARD 1st March, 2026

The Dr. Akerele-Alaba led WHITE Excos wishes all our esteemed members a happy New month May it bring you renewed energy, clinical excellence, and the fulfillment that comes with your dedicated service. We wish you a period marked by professional harmony and personal joy in all

in multiplied blessings. May this season of sacrifice and devotion fill our homes with peace, our lives with purpose, and our community with unity. Wishing you a spiritually fulfilling and rewarding Ramadan. Ramadan Mubarak! LASUTH ARD EXCOS 25/26

RAMADAN KAREEM As the blessed month of Ramadan begins, we pray that it brings renewed faith, deeper reflection, and abundant mercy to you and your family. May every fast draw you closer to Allah, every prayer strengthen your heart, and every act of kindness return to you

_*WHEN IS TOO MUCH REALLY TOO MUCH*_ _*what we should all be worried about*_ I write this with great constraint, sadness and a profound sense of loss of faith. In the last one (1) month, three doctors lost their lives. Three members of NARD lost their lives. 1. Dr. Salome Oboyi, A Senior Registrar in the Obs and Gynae department of BHUTH Jos 2. ⁠Dr. Jamila Umar Danhassan, A Registrar in Community Medicine Department of AKTH Kano 3. ⁠Dr. Akinjobi Carrington, A House Officer in LASUTH Lagos. It would interest us all to know that this brings the number of Resident Doctors who lost their lives in the last four and a half (4 1/2) months to (10) ten. It would interest you to also know that a Resident Doctor also tested positive (and eventually tested negative for Lassa Fever) in the last 2 weeks. Will it not baffle your imagination to know that a Resident Doctor is battling for her life in a hospital in Enugu following a road traffic accident? I am angry, I am scared, I am afraid I may be next, I am awake to my own thoughts these days and a prisoner to it. Nigeria, what have we done wrong as Doctors? Life is just moving on in Nigeria as if nothing has happened. Of the 9,000 resident Doctors at the federal level and another 1,000 at the state level, 10 have lost their lives in less than 5 months. We have lost over 10,000 Resident Doctors over the last 10 years to Migration and we are on course to loose another 10,000 in the next 10 years with a net deficit of about a thousand (1,000) doctors per year. New recruitment into Residency Training has dropped by more than 40% in the last few years. Attrition rate out of Residency Training has also increased with over 4,600 doctors leaving the shores of Nigeria in 2024 alone. I am sure, Nigeria did not produce more than this number of Doctors from our medical schools in 2024. We now have more Senior Registrars than Registrars, more Senior Registrars than there are House Officers in Nigeria. Add these (now regularly regular) deaths to the statistic, we are surely heading in the wrong direction. Ten (10) is a few too many, especially in Nigeria where these 10 Doctors by population are suppose to cover at least 100,000 Nigerians with a doctor to patient ratio approaching 1:10,000. WHO recommends 1:600 to 1,000. We have approximately 25,000-30,000 Doctors currently actively practicing at various levels and strata of patient care in Nigeria. To cover our entire population, we need over 300,000 Doctors. What the above statistics mean is this. 30,000 Doctors are doing the Job that should be done by 300,000 Doctors. And off the 30,000, Resident Doctors are less than half of that. When doctors die, or any health care professional die, it is a source for worry and panic. Is this not a national crisis? Doesn’t this deserve our attention? What is killing our Doctors? What may be responsible? (not in order of priority); 1. Excess work load. 2. ⁠Lack of Motivation and under appreciation. 3. ⁠Poor Remuneration and excess outstanding monetary arrears. 4. ⁠Challenges in career progression. 5. ⁠Lack of Job satisfaction. 6. ⁠Epidemiological and natural distributions of disease entities. 7. ⁠Security challenges. 8. ⁠Inability to afford services in Nigerian Hospitals. 9. All of the above? 10. ⁠etc 10 care givers gone. 10 healers gone when they were needed the most. Why am I worried; 1. I can be next and the whole country would just move on and I become a statistic. 2. ⁠These hospitals would simply replace them with anyone alive, available and willing. And work will just continue as if… 3. ⁠The Nigerian Health Sector will just continue in its march to decline, silently. 4. ⁠Their families will never be whole again. 5. ⁠The Nigerian Government simply cares little or nothing. The next election is more valuable to Government, certainly. 6. ⁠The Nigerian People are simply too unaware, too poor, too distracted to even notice. @channelstv @seunokin @ARISEtv @tvcnewsng

@joshibza Amen

Heart Breaking 💔. May God console his family.

@EmmyGration @Staciee_ Amen

@LASUTH_ARD @Staciee_ May his soul rest in peace

It is with deep sorrow and submission to God’s will that we announce the passing of our dear colleague, Dr. Akujobi Carrington, House Officer in the Department of Surgery. This is a heartbreaking loss to our community. Dr. Carrington was one of us — committed, hardworking,

difficult time. May God grant them the strength and comfort needed to bear this painful loss, and may his soul rest in perfect peace. With sympathy, TOPE OMOTOYINBO PRO LASUTH ARD

and part of the shared struggle and sacrifice that define our profession. His absence will be deeply felt across our wards, call rooms, and within the entire LASUTH ARD family. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues during this incredibly

This Valentine’s Day, let’s celebrate the kind of love that saves lives. Drop a short love note in the comments to appreciate a doctor. Let’s fill this space with gratitude. #LASUTHARD #ValentinesDay #DoctorsCare ❤️

Asthma can be controlled with proper care, regular follow-ups, and early intervention. With awareness and preparation, better breathing is within reach. 🫁 #WorldAsthmaDay #AsthmaAwareness #BreatheEasy #RespiratoryHealth #PublicHealth #AsthmaCare #Lasuthard

My condolences for the life lost. Dear @tvcnewsng TVC News, Dear Nigerians Do you know the five principles of managing snake bite outside the hospital? 1. Reassure and Calm the victim 2. Immobilize the affected limb (as limbs are more often bitten by snakes) 3. Remove all tights; clothings, watches, tourniquets etc 4. Do No Harm; Do not cut or slice the wound Do not suck the bite site Do not apply tourniquets Do not apply ice Do not take aspirin or alcohol to numb the pain 5. Transport to the hospital While at the hospital: Dear TVC News, Dear Nigerians The most commonly used route of administration of anti snake venom is via INTRAVENOUS FLUIDS (aka drip) Studies have shown that leaving tourniquets leads to gangrene and eventual amputation of limbs hence discouraged. -Fluid administration (drip) -Anti venom -Anti biotic -Tetanus Prophylaxis -Blood clotting time measurements every 15 minutes -Monitoring vital signs (pulse, BP, Urine output, Oxygen saturation The above steps are strictly to be done in hospitals especially those with anti venom available. Without treatment and depending on the specie of snake involved, death can occur between 25 minutes to 30 days. Most commonly occurring with 6-24 hours following the bite and evidence of envenomation. It is important that Nigeria develops a clear policy for clinical governance. This will ensure the system is held to account in times of challenges rather than scapegoating and cover ups that goes on anytime these sad events occur.

LOSS OF A HERO 🕊️ On behalf of Dr. Mohammad Usman Suleiman–led NARD NOC, E-NOC, NEC Members, the Crown Prince of NARD, and the entire NARDITES, we mourn with heavy hearts the tragic and untimely passing of Dr. Salome Oboyi, Senior Registrar in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Bingham University Teaching Hospital (BHUTH), Jos. Dr. Salome passed on Monday, 2nd February 2026, after contracting Lassa Fever from a patient under her care—a painful reminder of the daily risks doctors take while serving humanity. She did not die chasing fame. She did not die seeking applause. She died doing her job—saving lives. A selfless doctor. A devoted healer. A fallen hero. Her death is not just a personal loss to her family or an institutional loss to BHUTH; it is a collective tragedy for the Nigerian medical community and a glaring symbol of a systemic failure that continues to claim the lives of our finest minds in silence. We sincerely commiserate with the Management of Bingham University Teaching Hospital, her colleagues, friends, her grieving family, the entire NARDITES, and the Nigerian medical community at large. May her sacrifice not be forgotten. May her death not be in vain. May her story awaken a nation. Rest in perfect peace Dr. Salome Oboyi 🕊️ Your light will not fade. Dr. Abdulmajid Yahya Ibrahim NARD PSS 05:02:2026

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In line with the vision of encouraging a research culture amongst LASUTH-ARD residents, the editorial committee proudly presents the INAUGURAL LASUTH-ARD RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD.