Open AccessMedical Quackery in Nigeria: Why the Silence?
Author(s) -
VI Ndububa
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
nigerian journal of medicine/the nigerian journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2667-0526
pISSN - 1115-2613
DOI - 10.4314/njm.v16i4.37328
Subject(s) - quackery , government (linguistics) , law , functional illiteracy , medicine , scope of practice , poverty , political science , health care , economic growth , alternative medicine , economics , philosophy , linguistics , pathology
This paper examines the magnitude and scope of medical quackery practice in 21st Century Nigeria and wonders why there is so much complacency in tackling the problem. It also proffers solutions to the malady.