Nigerian Medical Association

[1][2] The NMA has more than 35,000 members from 36 state branches and Abuja, including those registered in the diaspora.

[4][5] NMA's membership spans all six major specialties of internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, public health and laboratory medicine/pathology.

The incumbent president of the NMA is Bala Mohammed Audu, a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology and the vice chancellor of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Azare (FUHSA).

[7] This creates an unbalanced doctor-patient ratio, which is one of the challenges of the Nigerian health system that the association and the federal government are trying to address.

[8] The National Executive Council (NEC) is the governing body of the NMA and has full powers to act on its behalf in the period between the Annual Delegates' Meetings and also make policy decisions.