 The Niger Medical Association has elected a new president Uche Rowland at its 62nd annual general conference and delegates meeting in Potakat River State. The association also advised state government to focus more on revitalising and funding general hospitals rather than getting involved in teaching hospitals. The report. Briefing newsmen in Potakat, the newly elected president emphasised that the most important thing for him and his team is to bring unity to the health sector. Oji Ma said that most Nigerian hospitals are in a state of decay and therefore called for proper funding and attention to the health sector from political leaders who are aspiring for various positions. Hospitals are not present and so it's supposed to be green. Look at who that is and see what a ward looks like. See what a greening looks like. A lot of state governments, I'm sorry to say this, are jumping into teaching hospitals and neglecting the secondary healthcare system of the general hospitals. I will call on our governors of the states to focus on your general hospitals. Everybody who has established a teaching hospital that they can't give you funding and therefore the teaching hospital is on strike. Go to your state and do that. It's all debt and everything. There was something to take care of our medical students. The NMA boss, who called on the government at all levels to make the environment conducive for medical health practitioners, directed the apiastic branch of the association to explore options of a legitimate strike that must involve all doctors in the states to achieve the payment of salary arrears to the state workers. ADM urged political stakeholders to bring to the fore concrete agenda for health to demonstrate willingness to strive for a robust healthcare delivery system as a key dividend to Nigerians. ADM, in the second resolution, urged the Federal Ministry of Health and other advanced stakeholders to treat mechanisms that will facilitate the speedy implementation of the new National Health Authority Act in order to prevent the fate that befell the National Health Insurance Act with the ultimate aim of that multi-served desire in the Universal Health Cooperation being calculated. ADM also directed NMA apiastic branch to explore the option of legitimate strike that must involve all doctors in the states to achieve recovery from the salary arrears for the state workers, especially those in the state university teaching hospitals. Uche Volan Ojima, a consultant dermatologist at the University of Nigeria teaching hospital Inugu, secured a total of 319 votes to defeat his opponent, Okoro Kenneth Johnson, who polled 40 votes and Kingsley Ikuir Madu, who scored 0. He studied medicine and surgery at the University of Botakat River State.