The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of NigeriaIn Nigeria, there is an alarming increase of medical negligence, and this is due to lack of available manpower and infrastructure in the health sector. Most NigSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
There are many scenarios of medical negligence in Nigeria. Instances where a person has been wrongly diagnosed of an ailment, been given the wrong medication, has not been properly attended to (with respect to the severity of their ailment, especially in cases of emergency), fail...
However, majority of medical negligence/malpractice cases are difficult to prove by the plaintiff, hence, the latter relies on the doctrine of Res Ipsa Loquitur which shifts the onus of proof to the defendant. Thus, this paper examines the elements of negligence in tort; and medical negligence;...
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While such cases are caused by multiple factors (e.g., natural disasters, austerity measures, government negligence, and deterioration of health infrastructure in clinics and hospitals), they are aggravated by shortages in physicians and other healthcare professionals. Therefore, in disaster situations,...
Negligent adverse event: Legal negligence is the failure of an average, qualified healthcare worker to meet the reasonably expected standard of care for a patient with similar circumstances (eg, failure to check a pathology report resulting in a missed cancer diagnosis). Similarly, a negligent adve...
Aetiology Drug effects, wound infections, technical complications, negligence, diagnostic or therapeutic mishaps, and events occurring in A&E.Therapeutics An undesirable and unintended, although not necessarily unexpected, result of therapy or other intervention—e.g., headache following spinal tap or ...
[45]. Based on this course, satellite regional courses have also been established by the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and the Public Health Foundation of India inNew Delhi. A number of certificate and distance education programs in adolescent health have been developed through ...
Discharge against medical advice in children at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, Nigeria Discharge against medical advice is not an uncommon practice encountered by health care providers in resource limited settings. The peculiarity of paediatric cases is that the index subjects ar...
the tertiary healthcare facilities across Nigeria's states has no safe and proper facilities for disposal of infectious medical waste.Challenges such as the various lackadaisical attitude and negligence of the populace towards covid-19 pandemic as well as poor enforcement of guidelines on infectious me...