sogodihno: CONCLUSION.MDCAN/NMA has become a fifth columnists working againstthe state. It is sad that MDCAN/NMA and her members who have benefitted so much from the state are now turning themselves against the Nigerian state to become the killer of the Nigerian People, instead of being the Physician who is to be the healer of the patient and people. Nigerians must rise and say no to this medical imperialism by using the instrumentality of the law to stop MDCAN/NMA from inflicting untold hardship on her citizenry. The Federal Government through the Ministry of Health under Prof Onyebuchi CHukwu must act to maintain law and order, now that MDCAN/NMA has told the world that it is because of some of the things she granted to JOHESU on merit, is the reason MDCAN/NMA is going on strike. She should seek an injunction restraining MDCAN/NMA from going on strike just as she did to JOHESU, pending the determination of the motion on notice to know if MDCAN/NMA has the locus standi to go on strike when she is not a Trade Union.JOHESU should be firm to seek a legal redress to restrain MDCAN/NMA in this acts of lawlessness, if the Government does not act. There must be a total restructuring of the Health Sector. All Nigerians from all works of life must condemn these acts of sabotage against the State by doctorsof Allopathic Medicine under the auspices of MDCAN/NMA. The Nigerian Government as a matter of urgency should support the Natural Medicine Development Agency Kofo Abayomi Victoria Island, to reposition our Traditional Medicine to be like what is seen in China, USA, U.K, India, Korea etc. And it should be integrated into the mainstream Healthcare System in Nigeria. Allopathic Monopolistic Medicine should give way to Pluralistic Medicine. Government should create an enabling environment for the practice of the different Medical Systems like, Functional Medicine, Holistic Medicine, Ethnomedicine, Ayurvedic Medicine, Homeopathy, Osteopathy etc. All over the world, nocountry is currently solely dependent on one Medical System. Nigerians must say no to MDCAN/NMA that has become anti people. The Nigerian Government should not allow herself to be blackmailed by MDCAN/NMA.She should first and foremost challenge MDCAN/NMA for acts of impunity against the state. The Federal Government should take a leaf from Governor Fashola of Lagos State, for enough is enough. The Government should also take a queuefrom the former governor of Anambra state, Mr Peter Obi.SignedComr. Ajufo,Benjamin Chukwunonso comr. Asiodu,Anthony UcheSecretary,AMLSN Chairman,AMLSNFMC ASABA CHAPTER. FMC ASABA CHAPTER

inimes: The battle for superiority is not going to help the Health Sector. Doctors see themselves as superiors,and sometimes out of selfishness despise the other medical and health professionals. They allow pride and selfishness to make them forget that the Health Service System is all about team work and dependence on one another. They cannot claim monopoly of knowledge because they administer treatment on patients. Nigerians should be ready for more debilitating industrial actions if this impasse is not resolved immediately. Other medical and health workers were running the various health facilities and hospitals while the Doctors were on strike. Only major surgeries were not performed since the Law does not permit it. Let harmony and cordiality be entrenched in the Health System to enhance service delivery. Let the Practitioners in the Sector uphold the ethics of their various fields,which all aim at saving human lives by engaging in the best professional practices. Embarking on strikes always does not help,especially when such strikes are driven by selfish interests and not public interests. Doctors must stop going against the interests of the other medical and health professionals in the interest of harmony and service delivery.

SAPEDRO:


If that's the case, instead of training other health allied professionals all they need do is train more doctors, i mean more doctors that can handle the entire teeming populace. so only doctors would be found in the hospitals, Then this rivalry wouldn't have happened in the first place

sainty2k3:
Ideally Johessu strike can't stop doctors from working but u people mischeiviously will lock up the wards and the lab, why DAT, wen it is not ur fathers property, is that not too bad, hospital heads should make sure the lab is opened and the clinics and wards open, don't lock anywhere, we'll sort out the rest

lanrefront1:

I have never read a load so full self-righteous post on Nairaland like the one i just read above. Are you drunk, a Doctor can do the work of phsiotherapist and Medical Labaratory Scientist and that of Pharmacists. Do you know the work of these professionals extends beyond the confines of an hospital.

in the curriculum of medcine, it is Global best parctice world wide that there be exposed to every arear that has to do with human heath and physiology. That dosent mean they are expert in those arears.

When i said the NMA indoctrinates medical students to beleiev they are superior and to look down at other professionals in the health sector, you guys thought i was joking. or how do you expalin the above post, and you know, the sincerely absolotely beleieves he is right and he is amking sense.

they cant even see the truth anymore.

Just check this out "but we chose to employ the services of Nurses and others to lighten our burden"......

So you pay the salaries of other professionals now.....when i say these people are so arrogant, I hope people will beleiev me now.

drlawizle:

It seems you don't get the drift...its just like you hiring a driver even though you are experts it...its just to relieve the stress off you...would you now say because you can drive you will refuse to hire a good driver when you can very well afford it...the driver is there to relieve your stress but when he wants to start feeling all important...you bounce him and replace him with another...not that you decide to start driving yourself from thereafter...these health workers will keep showing to the world how beneath they are to us with all these clamor...Dr Hippocrates was the founding father of Medicine and all others were assistants..fact! The day assistant will become head has and will never come..

SAPEDRO:
I'm sorry,but i think tha type of comparism can't be drawn in this type of situation, it's your car while the driver is your employee, what i 'm saying is if a doctor is tired another doctor can also relieve him off his duty because there's is no limit to the number of doctors that can be trained so their wouldn't have been all these nurses ,Physios and the likes in the first place, talking about car, it's either u re driving it, or your driver, but here we can have doctors to help another doctor and nobody will get tired

chucs: you must be a joker for thinking that other professionals are there to help Dr. They only learn how to help for 4 years and upwards of that they spend in universities? The Nigerian Doctors ego knows no bounds. Go and read harder and become the best in your profession. Half baked doctor.

chucs: Thank God you wrote that your uncle is an Engineer working in the bank and as such cannot aspire to be the head of th bank. That is thesame way if a doctor is employed as a medical officer in oil company,he cannot aspire to be the head there so your comparism lacks width and you writeup is shallow come up with something better.

DoctorTim: If they like they should go to the Hague, the doctors will get what they want for the good of the patients, the doctors and the whole health care system in Nigeria.

DoctorTim: If they like they should go to the Hague, the doctors will get what they want for the good of the patients, the doctors and the whole health care system in Nigeria.

tuoyoojo: Let them go to court or whereeva dey want to go to. By God's Grace, doctors wud get what they are seeking for, let's watch and see if d hospitals wud not be able to run without johesu (because most probably they wud go on strike too). Afterall, doctors hav being doing part of their job even when they where around.

Fight neva start well, dem don dey shout!

Sh*t is about to get real

chucs: you must be a joker for thinking that other professionals are there to help Dr. They only learn how to help for 4 years and upwards of that they spend in universities? The Nigerian Doctors ego knows no bounds. Go and read harder and become the best in your profession. Half baked doctor.

Talibanis: THIS IS A SAD STORY:A NURSE TREATED BY A PHARMACIST BATTLING FOR HER LIFE IN ICU
This is a recent developing story. Pls read and digest accordingly.

A mismanaged case of postpartum ecclampsia by a pharmacist is presently in a critical condition in the ISTH's ICU (Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital). This nurse was said to had put to bed 5days before presentation to the pharmacy (name witheld) opposite Eguare primary school, Ekpoma. Her compliant of headache among other symptoms was taken to be ordinary without any BP check. Rather than refer the patient to the closest clinic/doctors around since she is still in the puerperal stage, he decided to treat. She had seizure (convulsion) on getting home and lapse into unconsciousness. This led to her husband who is not a medical person to start calling for help from all the doctors on his contact. She was rushed to a private clinic where on assessment was diagnosed to have post partum ecclampsia. They got in touch with the anaesthetist and some other consultants in ISTH who rushed in to render their services and stabilize her in ICU.
You be the fair judge. I earnestly pray this will not add to our already beyond the sky maternal mortality. A lot of pharmacists, laboratory scientists, nurses, pastors, orderlies, porters, etc run clinics and misinform the populace. Many are dying in the hands of quacks majority of which are the allied medical/paramedical professionals. Giving the the status of doctors, consultants etc is like endorsing this quackery.
‪#‎bringbackourdoctors‬
‪#‎sadlynigerian‬

omotalkie:
In ur dreams! When u pple can't even carry out ur own procedure effectively, u want to do anoda person's own? Lyk serzly?

drlawizle:

And you must be a myopic illiterate for not knowing that whatever position you find yourself there is always room for improvement...if you like spend a century studying your course...that's your own cup of tea...you are only relevant when we call on you....all these your insults against we your leaders is just like my little younger brother trying to flex muscles with me...I will pick my teeth with your bones...

drlawizle:

Previously I used to complain when these lazy elements go on strike cos I don't like doing their work but if they misbehavior this time around....I will be part of those that will willingly and gladly do their work for them...bunch of lazy ingrates...

sikells:
when there is one missing link..the doctor who diagnose,then this kind of news shouldn't come as a surprise..the truth is every department in the health sector should be allowed to make their own decisions...the doctors don't just have a good reason for this strike..l doubt that the president would even listen to them this time..an agreement has been had with JOHESU already...I don't expect the govt to renege.

SAPEDRO:
well, I am not here for war and I am neither a doctor nor half baked, look at my profile and check my pix, do i look like a comedian? I am not taking sides with either of the two parties i am just on righteousness side, so your post about me is totally uncalled for

drlawizle:

Which procedure can we not handle effectively...perhaps you saw a newbie house officer battling with a line or a new registrar doing his first appendectomy and you come to a conclusion that all docs are the same...I just shake my head in pity when I see nurses console themselves with such...it sucks to be in your shoes I know....feel free to make yourselves comfortable...lol.

drlawizle:



Ewooooo!!!! Nigerians lets be truthful for once...so you still don't see any justification for the strike in this write-up?...yekpa! It is finished...when they weren't given consultancy they were practising quackery...to justify their actions they are seeking for consultancy...how many doctors do you see doing the jobs of other allied health workers? But you see them all fronting as doctors and misguiding the public when everything scatters they now remember that they are not doctors and refer them to "Dr Signs & Wonders" to perform miracles...when the patients die it is still the same health workers that say : I told you those doctors are Dr death! so as to remove themselves from the blame when a stitch in time could have actually saved nine...Haba Nigerians...when will we be wise? Time is going oh!!

drlawizle:

It seems you don't get the drift...its just like you hiring a driver even though you are experts it...its just to relieve the stress off you...would you now say because you can drive you will refuse to hire a good driver when you can very well afford it...the driver is there to relieve your stress but when he wants to start feeling all important...you bounce him and replace him with another...not that you decide to start driving yourself from thereafter...these health workers will keep showing to the world how beneath they are to us with all these clamor...Dr Hippocrates was the founding father of Medicine and all others were assistants..fact! The day assistant will become head has and will never come..

chucs: this your writeup sums up medical professionals in Nigerian. brace up for more courses on leadership skils because you will soon lead your self. Your are talking about picking up my bones with your teeth, I'w devour your bones with my own teeth. I like dealing with doctors like you.

lanrefront1:

This guy.....you think you are very intelligent, meanwhile your comparisons reeks of stupidity.

Are you comparing (for instance) a driver/driving to the job of a pharmacist.

Look at this guy who think we are fools. Pharmacy is 5 year course. And medicine I believe is 6 years course.

So are you saying that you cover all that Pharmacists are thought in their five years of study along with that of your medicine curriculum?

Pray, please do answer the question.