Radiographers reject medical bill, allege threat to professional autonomy

The Association of Radiographers of Nigeria (ARN) has rejected the Medical and Dental Practitioners Act (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill 2026 presently earlier the National Assembly, describing it arsenic a targeted and calculated existential battle connected their profession.

“The measure exposes the blueprint to erase radiography, subjugate professionals, and monopolise diagnostic and therapeutic healthcare,” said Dr Musa Y. Dambele, alongside different officers of the association, portion speaking to the media successful Kano connected Saturday.

He stated that the presumption of the relation is that the measure constitutes a nonstop usurpation of Section 36 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) regarding the close to a just hearing, adding that a radiographer cannot person an impartial adjudication from a committee of aesculapian doctors who deficiency the method competence to reappraisal radiographic protocols.

Dr Dambele emphasised that nonrecreational regularisation requires peer-informed oversight, not a subordinate disciplinary structure.

“The measure mandates that 70 per cent of practising fees collected beryllium shared with the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA). The ARN position: This reveals the existent motive—financial colonisation. If radiographers are forced nether the MDCN, their hard-earned fees volition beryllium diverted to a nonrecreational relation (NMA) that has nary ineligible oregon ethical r...