Tag: African doctors in Canada

Uncategorized February 4, 2025February 4, 2025

Canadian-Nigerian Doctor Sues Health Authority Over Alleged Discrimination

By Ejiro Edhughoro | News Central

Canadian doctor with Nigerian heritage, Dr Amos Akinbiyi, has taken legal action against the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA), accusing the organisation and some of its employees of intimidation, breach of contract, conspiracy, and defamation.

Akinbiyi, who has been practicing in Saskatchewan since 1996, claimed he was compelled to intervene in a medical emergency to save his daughter’s life while she was in labour at Regina General Hospital, a decision he believes contravened both professional and cultural boundaries.

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Uncategorized June 22, 2021

Charges dropped against Congolese Canadian doctor accused of starting COVID outbreak

Family physician Jean-Robert Ngola faced harassment and death threats after being falsely accused of spreading the coronavirus.

By Rupa Shenoy | PRI

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Achievements June 2, 2020

Watch: Chika Oriuwa, the Nigerian-Canadian valedictorian for U of T’s medical school, give her address

By Chika Oriuwa | MACLEANS

Nigerian-Canadian Chika Oriuwa graduated from medical school at the University of Toronto on June 2, 2020. This is her valedictory address.

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Achievements June 2, 2020

Nigerian-Canadian, Chika Oriuwa, named valedictorian of University of Toronto’s faculty of medicine

By Talia Ricci | CBC News

Nigerian-Canadian Chika Stacy Oriuwa has wanted to be a doctor since she was a small child. When she started medical school at the University of Toronto four years ago, she was the only black person in a class of 259 students. On Tuesday, June 2nd, she graduates as valedictorian. In doing so, she becomes just the second black woman valedictorian and the first woman in 14 years to receive the honour.

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Uncategorized April 24, 2020

Nigerian-Canadian doctor, Dayo Olakulehin, designed an emergency ventilator that is attracting global attention following COVID-19

by Chris Halliday | Orangeville Banner

With Ontario calling on its “best and brightest minds” to combat coronavirus, an Orangeville businessman, a Nigerian-born doctor and his partners are close to bringing an affordable emergency ventilator to market. The LifeAir G1 is based on an initial design by Dayo Olakulehin, a former doctor in Nigeria who immigrated to Canada with the concept of designing an inexpensive ventilator that could save lives and be affordable for developing nations.