To boost quality healthcare service delivery in the states, the governments of Bauchi, Gombe, and Jigawa have implemented proactive regulations and monitoring procedures to combat medical quackery.
Officials from health agencies and other stakeholders claimed the step was necessary to clean up the medical profession, end malpractice, and protect public health in the respective states.
The health professionals responded in separate interviews in Bauchi, Gombe, and Dutse in response to a survey on government regulation and supervision of health establishments.
False knowledge of a particular topic is referred to as quack medicine. Under the guise of medical doctors, nurses, and other health professionals, quackery is allegedly rampant in the Nigerian medical sector.
According to the experts, some of the detrimental effects include an increase in maternal and infant mortality, a rise in the unemployment rate for registered nurses and midwives, a bad name for medical and nursing education, subpar therapeutic results, and a weakened healthcare system.
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) established a quackery committee in Bauchi State to improve oversight of both public and private clinics in order to combat this issue.
Dr. Abdullahi Kabir, secretary of the NMA, claimed that the policy will make it easier for people to receive high-quality healthcare services locally.
He claimed that the committee's job was to look into claims of malpractice and provide a recommendation to the state's health ministry for necessary action.
“The association set up a sub-committee saddled with the responsibility to seek public and staff opinion on the operations of private clinics.
