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It is now possible to check online whether your doctor is registered with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria thanks to a new project tagged SaharaHealth by an online news outfit, SaharaReporters.


The project is being sponsored by International Centre for Journalists - ICFJ through Code for Africa. According to the information available on the portal, SaharaHealth
is brought to Nigerians in partnership with Code for Nigeria which is a non-profit civic technology movement.

The information further revealed that a network of civic-minded volunteers who contribute their talents, skills, expertise, and community knowledge as technological tools to improve public service, bring governments to account, and promote informed (data-driven) decision-making; leveraging open data + media, and backed by a core (full-time) tech team.

You can equally checked the price of drugs and find a doctor near you using the portal. To use this function visit http://health.saharareporters.com/

Good initiative! It's a work in progress I guess cos I checked like 8 names but 2 are not found (even those whom I thought were quacks dey there self lol). Why can't nursing Council do similar thing? All they know is to increase money and add little or no value to the profession  *smh*

Wow! I love this! We shall get there. Thanks for sharing this.

This is a laudable initiative, here in Australia you can easily check whether a nurse is registered or not and in which division he or she is likewise their region. I hope same is implemented one day for nurses in Nigeria.