Medical Doctor, Mobile Clinic (Katsina) at Medecins Du Monde

Medecins du Monde (MdM) is an international humanitarian organization whose mission is to provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations, the world over, including France. It seeks to stimulate voluntary commitment from doctors, other health care providers, and from those whose expertise in other fields is needed for its activities, to enlist all competent support required for the achievement of its projects, and to seek at all times to encourage close working relationships with populations in its care. MdM operating in Nigeria, Borno state since October 2016.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Medical Doctor, Mobile Clinic

Location: Katsina

Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Medical Supervisor, the Medical Doctor will be responsible for the following main activities in order to ensure the quality of care in the mobile clinics:

• Provision of free of charge curative health consultations
• Admission, weekly medical follow-up and discharge of the malnourished children in the OTP program
• Collection, computerization and analysis of weekly epidemiological data
• Reporting and attendance at different meetings

Tasks Description
Provision of free of charge curative health consultations:

• Prepare all the necessary drugs, materials and equipment for mobile clinics and ensure that everything is ready before leaving the MDM office
• Follow the basic medical rules of hygiene when performing curative health consultations
• Participate actively in triage activities before starting curative health consultations 
• Perform curative consultations:
• Take a proper medical history including: 
• Reason for consultation
• Duration of the illness or complaints
• Main symptoms
• Past medical history and treatment.
• Perform a correct physical examination:
• Inspection, auscultation, percussion, palpation
• Systematic checking of signs of severity                                
• Diagnose and treat the diseases according to protocols in use (i.e. clinical guidelines)
• Write the most important complaints, signs, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment on the patient’s registration form.
• Explain the treatment to the patient
• Give individual health education related to the patient’s disease
• Manage emergency cases according to the MdM protocols and regulations
• Fill in the registration form for each patient, according to the diagnosis of the morbidity surveillance form
• Check the immunization status for all EPI targeted children and refer the unvaccinated children to the vaccinator
• Investigate any information regarding unusual health events or disease outbreaks, provided through any source
• Ensure patient confidentiality is respected, and treat all patients with respect and dignity

Admission, weekly medical follow-up and discharge of the malnourished children in the OTP program:

• Ensure that all the 6-59 months children have been screened (MUAC, H/W and edemas)
• Admit new cases in the OTP program according to the criteria of the national nutrition protocol and give systematic treatment for SAM cases
• Ensure weekly follow-up of SAM cases and adapt RUTF doses
• Discharge cases according to the criteria of the national nutrition protocol
• Refer complicated SAM cases to the identified Stabilisation Centre
• Fill in the specific OTP form

Collection, computerization and analysis of weekly epidemiological data:

• Perform the daily data collection regarding curative consultations 
• Participate in the weekly computerization  and analysis of the medical data

Reporting and attendance at different meetings:

• Prepare a weekly activities report to submit to the team leader
• Participate in a proactive way in MdM internal meetings (medical, security…)
• Participate in all the  trainings organized by MDM

Others:

• Give suggestions to improve the functioning of MDM mobile clinics 
• Participate in the loading and unloading of the vehicles and to  the setting up of the mobile clinics
• Participate in the weekly physical inventory of the mobile clinic pharmacy
• Be flexible in performing his/her duties to ensure that beneficiaries are getting good quality services
• Perform other additional duties at the request of the team leader
• Inform immediately the security focal point in case of any security problem in the field.

Salary
N500,000 - N750,000 / month.

Application Closing Date
8th July, 2025.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV and cover letter in one document to: recruitment.nigeria@medecinsdumonde.net using the position as the subject of the email.