This battle can be likened to the battle of 'self preservation' vs 'greed' and I think the former has a better justification for their cause.

Morotov1: Ask doctors in US about their mid-level players and those in East Africa about clinical officers. Mozambique nko !!!!! where Midwives perform caesarean section.

Tell him..........my bro. They dont know anything.......

@OP, your analogy is out of line. That a nurse prescribed rubbish is different from nurse wanting to be consultant nurse, or consultant pharmacist as the case may be. The consultant nurse will do the work of a nurse & not that of a Dr. Stop deceiving the public.

There are no saints in this grim saga. Successive governments have made a mess of health services — under-funding and under-equipping hospitals, entrenching corruption and inking agreements with doctors and other professionals that they thereafter fail to honour. Some doctors, on their part, have run public health institutions with glaring inefficiency, antagonised other health workers thereby polarising the system, and short-changed the public by simultaneously engaging in private practice.

While the mandatory Hippocratic oath enjoins doctors to save lives, patients die and suffer disabilities and pain when doctors stop work. The strikes have been just too many and their impact, dreadful. The latest was preceded by a three-day “warning strike.” Numerous strikes since year 2000 have led to numerous deaths, while those mostly hit are the low income earners. In a country where 61 per cent of the population are poor, where only 35 per cent have access to adequate sanitation, and life expectancy is only 54 years, the frequent recourse to strikes is cruel and self-centred.

Doctors are making some untenable demands. Their earlier insistence on only doctors being made minister is unreasonable. It is a political-cum-administrative post and other countries don’t subscribe to this. Their opposition to health professionals rising to directorship in public hospitals is also odious.

Demands such as denying other professionals the title of consultants, should be resolved by the government only in the light of best practices worldwide and in the public interest. Doctors have the right to bargain for rewards, but it is unacceptable to oppose the right of others to receive what an employer is ready to offer them.

If doctors from other countries are in Nigeria helping in the terror-torn North; and in Zamfara State where lead poisoning has killed hundreds of children; combating malaria and polio elsewhere, and are mapping strategies to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, this time, therefore, is not when our own doctors should cripple hospitals with strikes!

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Igbojionu Ijeoma Joy >
Pls what is d best treatment to a 14wks primip who complains of having lower uterine contraction

Edafeadhe Onome:
Now that the doctors are on strike what will you do? Are you going to their houses and call them that a patient is having pre-term contractions. Say something reasonable.
This is the opportunity Nurses
have to prove their worth in the hospital.
Thanks for all your
contributions. What of Ergometrin or dexamethasone. These drugs helps to reduce spasms.