Seriously, I can't find d words 2 describe these ignorant people, so I'll just quote a colleague Dr. U.R. Umuago: "When a strike starts, don't go reminding us of the
hippocratic oath which u know nothing about. We wrote
it. We swore to it, we know what it means.
The other group (Joe-hates-you) on the other hand is an irrational organisation
made up of other health workers, infact, basically
everyone who works in a hospital. From accounts
department to cleaners and other aggrieved non-doctor
health workers, whose sole aim is to frustrate the health
sector
There is the DA, a powerful office open to every one and in most
hospitals, if not all, has never been smelt by a doctor.
How can someone who is not a doctor be fighting for chief
medical director. So the accounts department in a police
station should start fighting for Inspector general, cos they
work with the police?
How can nurses start talking about consultancy? They
have matrons, CNO's and all what not. Consultancy is a
position, not bestowed upon anyone. U go thru a
residency program, write exams and become one under a
recognised medical post graduate college.
And by becoming a consultant, u have the sole
responsibility of the patient. Every other person, from the
resident doctor to the nurse and orderlies are mere aides.
I don't know how to start explaining this because no one
would understand. Its like 2moro, assuming when Nigeria
was under military rule, civil defence would come out and
demand to become president. But when the war starts, u
send the soldiers. That u match infront of ur civil defence
office DOES NOT make u a military combatant.
And if the same benefits given to these soldiers are given
to the boy scouts, every one would become a boy scout.
Medical doctors were not selected. Its open to everyone.
If u want to be a consultant or a CMD then u go and
study medicine. U dont wake up one morning and decide
to convert ur profession to what it is not.
U say Nigerians are subjecting their patients to quacks.
Who are those quacks? Are they not the same people who
believe by working inside a hospital they've become
doctors? Thats exactly what Joy-hates-you (JOHESU) is doing.
The federal govt acted like they did during the fuel
subsidy, kidnap, bombings and all their plain acts of
ignorance. And the medical profession has just had
enough of the stupidity.
The Chief medical director office is the BIRTHRIGHT of
medical doctors as much as being president of Nigeria is
the birthright of a nigerian citizen. U cant come from
ghana, live here for 30yrs and demand to be president.
There is a medical salary structure worked out based on
relativity. No doctor has ever fought the govt based on
how much they chose to pay other health workers. But
relativity keeps it sane. Without the cleaners in a hospital,
it wont function. So therefore, they should strike till they
are paid higher than the graduate workers? because they are
equally important?
Keep salary structure relative, keep qualified people in
their due offices and provide an enabling working
environment. I dont think thats an irrational thing to fight
for.
And saying NMA is envious is only laughable. Envious of
who if I may ask? Of the nurse? Are u serious for real?
JOHESU members can blog all they want and seek cheap
sympathy for as long as they want. The fact still remains
that the truth is the truth.
I can't chose to become a doctor and 2moro start
complaining about Mikel Obi's salary. If I wanted, I could
have become a footballer.
I urge Nigerians to understand that this strike, much
as it affects them, is not directed towards them.
ASUU strikes over salary, colleges of education and
polytechnics are on strike over money. No one has called
them evil. We strike over common sense and people start
ranting.
There are laws. In Nigeria, u cannot become president
without at least an SSCE. If u chose not to go to
secondary school, then thats ur problem. U chose ur
profession, or u failed to meet the standards of the one u
chose and hence went to another. Which ever way it
happened, thru ur own fault or circumstances surrounding
u, u dont try to turn an existing system upside down to
suit ur selfish needs from wat u imagined a particular
profession gains financially , at the expense of quality,
efficiency and common sense.".............SO on a final note, since u guys "claim" to be consultants, no problem then.....now that we have vacated d hospitals 4 u, then go ahead and "consult".....clerk patients, examine them, order relevant investigations, diagnose them, place them under "expert" management/treatment, perform surgeries as well as other procedures.....GOOD LUCK.

U.R UMUAGO STILL AS VIBRANT AS EVER.

lolzzz @joe-hates-you!!! But seriously, the populace needs to be educated, they have been fed with lies, and more lies