President Goodluck Jonathan has
approved the sack of doctors
across federal hospitals in Nigeria,
citing the current challenges facing
the health sector as the reason for
the action.

The doctors under the auspices of
the Nigerian Medical Association
(NMA) had embarked on a strike
to press home their demand for an
improvement in their welfare on
July 1 and several attempts to
resolve the issue have ended in a
stalemate.

The government had earlier
accused the doctors of neglecting
their oath to protect lives and
continue to turn down the request
to suspend the strike, particularly
during the outbreak of the deadly
Ebola virus and the ongoing
insurgency in some parts of the
country.

In a letter signed by Honourable L.
N. Awute, a permanent secretary in
the ministry of health, the
president ordered that the action
should take immediate effect.

“President Goodluck Jonathan has
suspended the residency training
programme for doctors in Nigeria
indefinitely for the purposes of
appraising the challenges facing
the health sector,” read the letter.

“In line with the above, the
Honourable Minister has directed
that you issue letters of
termination of Residency Training
appointment to the affected
Resident Doctors in your Hospital
immediately.

“The Board of Management is to
take all necessary measures to
immediately restore full medical
services in your hospital. Note
however this is without prejudice
to the employment of Locum
Physicians on six months
renewable contract tied to
productivity and good behavior.”

In an interview with TheCable, one
of the affected doctors condemned
the development, sating that it is
an indication that government
does not know its priority.

“The federal government should
have asked the government of
Lagos state that tried toeing that
lane, the end result of such
action,” she said.

“Simply because we demanded for
our rights they are attempting to
intimidate us. Anyway, let us see
who blinks first.”

A source told TheCable that the
federal government had directed
that locum doctors and doctors in
military hospitals should be
employed pending the time that
the doctors are replaced.
http://thecable.ng/exclusive-jonathan-sacks-striking-doctors

Am not Smiling though but seeing it as a threat... Lemme check if ARD will come around hospitals tomorrow .... No body is above government... Our Grannies need help and you guys are striking?

He doesnt have good advisers. He has just undone himself. What cluelessness?

God catch them

Lwkm ..gej record breaker he just sacked more than 5k doctors.... Truely okpolo(toad) eyes e no be opEn eyes

Tales by moonlight....... This is a seasons film...we no fit finish watching

GEJ just shot himself. I laugh in spanish. If you dont train resident doctors, get ready to employ consultant doctors from overseas in about ten years time and pay them in dollars. Hahahahaha. Clueless idiat.

Chai

Hmmm...

I smell a massive brain drain ahead. Soon, we shall all be flying to UK for common malaria treatment. Thanks to the shoeless one. That's if he is serious sha.

instead of GEJ to negotiate wit dem he iz busy sacking dem hw would u sack all d striking doctors at a tym GEJ iz just using fire to quench fire so it untrained doctors dat dy want to employe nw

Good for those motherfu¢king doctors.

mentorandfriend: President Goodluck Jonathan has
approved the sack of doctors
across federal hospitals in Nigeria,
citing the current challenges facing
the health sector as the reason for
the action.

The doctors under the auspices of
the Nigerian Medical Association
(NMA) had embarked on a strike
to press home their demand for an
improvement in their welfare on
July 1 and several attempts to
resolve the issue have ended in a
stalemate.

The government had earlier
accused the doctors of neglecting
their oath to protect lives and
continue to turn down the request
to suspend the strike, particularly
during the outbreak of the deadly
Ebola virus and the ongoing
insurgency in some parts of the
country.

In a letter signed by Honourable L.
N. Awute, a permanent secretary in
the ministry of health, the
president ordered that the action
should take immediate effect.

“President Goodluck Jonathan has
suspended the residency training
programme for doctors in Nigeria
indefinitely for the purposes of
appraising the challenges facing
the health sector,” read the letter.

“In line with the above, the
Honourable Minister has directed
that you issue letters of
termination of Residency Training
appointment to the affected
Resident Doctors in your Hospital
immediately.

“The Board of Management is to
take all necessary measures to
immediately restore full medical
services in your hospital. Note
however this is without prejudice
to the employment of Locum
Physicians on six months
renewable contract tied to
productivity and good behavior.”

In an interview with TheCable, one
of the affected doctors condemned
the development, sating that it is
an indication that government
does not know its priority.

“The federal government should
have asked the government of
Lagos state that tried toeing that
lane, the end result of such
action,” she said.

“Simply because we demanded for
our rights they are attempting to
intimidate us. Anyway, let us see
who blinks first.”

A source told TheCable that the
federal government had directed
that locum doctors and doctors in
military hospitals should be
employed pending the time that
the doctors are replaced.
http://thecable.ng/exclusive-jonathan-sacks-striking-doctors

I support GEJ on this issue because these people are heartless.

A wrong move by GEJ

Stoopid doctors. . . Good riddance

Mixed feelings.