MDCN REGISTRAR, Dr Abdulmumini Ibrahim, IS TELLING US BYE BYE

hehehehehe.....Outgoing registrar of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, Dr Abdulmumini Ibrahim, says the public must first report complaints to enable it investigate and discipline doctors considered to have breached ethics in their practice.

Speaking as he handed over headship of the council, he said, “The act administering the council is very clear about the procedures for disciplining a doctor. First there must be complaint.” A panel investigates the complaints and refers trial before a tribunal, if it finds evidence of wrongdoing.

In a celebrity case, it withdrew licence of a Lagos surgeon tried for leaving behind a towel in a patient. Ibrahim said the council gets complaints daily but a backlog of cases awaiting prosecution is building up with routine dissolution of its governing board.

MDCN, which regulates medical practice, has repeatedly requested that its board be exempt from routine dissolution, considering the sensitivity of its regulatory work. Ibrahim also said a major challenge for the council in the last eight years he led it was funding, which comes from government budget and licence fees. “Funding is not as adequate as we might have hoped,” he said.