My dear Colleagues in the diaspora,

You may already have known or heard about the Paediatric Association of Nigeria (PAN). It is a professional non-political body of Paediatricians, Resident Doctors in paediatrics, Nurses, and allied professionals who provide the medical, psychological and advocacy needs of children in Nigeria.

As we all know, the health indices of our country have remained abysmally poor and embarrassing, especially with respect to children including neonates. This does not have to be so.

In its over 60 years of existence, PAN has grown from a size of less than ten dedicated persons to over 1,500 practitioners.

The Association has, through decades of persistent struggles especially by our past leaders, sought to improve child health with mixed results. We partner with the Federal Ministry of Health and other governmental agencies in providing inputs on policies; provide training to various levels of health care workers including those in the rural areas; encourage research in Nigeria and dissemination of research findings through PAN scientific publication, the Nigerian Journal of Paediatrics; and leading advocacy strategies and awareness programmes in specific areas of child health. These efforts, good as they look and may actually be, have produced insufficient positive results. The enormity of the problems requires much more to be done.   

PAN calls on all Nigerian paediatricians-in-diaspora and any healthcare worker outside Nigeria with interest in the health of Nigerian children who wish to be part of our goals to join us as members of the Association or collaborate with, in any area of your interest.

For more information on how you can get involved, kindly contact the PAN Secretary-General on [email protected] or www.pan-ng.org and click on the Diaspora icon     

We look forward to working with you.

Dr. Edward Alikor
PAN President