TORTIOUS LIABILITY OF MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS IN NIGERIA AN APPRAISAL

📄 Project Abstract

This thesis entitled, "Tortious Liability of Medical Practitioners in Nigeria: An Appraisal," Examines critically, the civil (tortious) Liability of Health care providers in Nigeria. In Nigeria, there is very little awareness that medical professional duties carry legal implications. The conduct of professional people in the medical field, positive or negative, does not only affect their employers but impact directly on third parties. Consequently, liability will arise both against the employer and the employee professional, in the event of a broach of duty by the latter to act with reasonable care and deligence. The Law is therefore, well settled that medical men owe duty in tort, i.e. civil wrongs to their patiens whether there is a contract with the patient or not. Unfortunately, this aspect of the laws is not properly exploite in Nigeria especially in the Northern part, due to low level of awareness and cultural norms in which every mishap is attributed to God's will. Secondly, the...