#OBSCURELEGALFACTS BY AROME ABU
ELIGIBILITY OF FOREIGN DOCTORS TO PRACTICE IN NIGERIA
Foreign doctors may be registered temporarily to practice in Nigeria, if the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria is satisfied that the Medical Practitioner;
(a) has been selected for employment for a specified period in any approved institution in Nigeria in the capacity of a practitioner of medicine, surgery, dental surgery or midwifery, and that he is or intends to be in Nigeria for a limited period for the purposes of serving for that period in the employment in question; and
(b)that he has passed the assessment examination, (if any) of the Council
following some qualifications granted outside Nigeria which is for the time being accepted by the Council.
No person with limited registration shall be allowed to open or manage his own a private health institution.
See Section 13 of the MEDICAL AND DENTAL PRACTITIONERS ACT
Arome Abu is the Principal Partner of TCLP.
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