phantom:

not just any doctor o!! he sacked the very people on which our health system is based. looks like you guys dont understand who resident doctors are.

he sacked highly skilled doctors!! that is you CANT REPLACE THEM WITH OTHER DOCTORS. THAT IS THE ISSUE.

Lightening:

Highly skilled ko. Nigerians still flock to india for the most elemental treatment. Your next defence will now be that government is underfunding the health sector, yet the same is producing "highly skilled" doctors according to you.

The gamble has backfired. Maybe if the resident doctors start sponsoring themselves, they might start enjoying better welfare than what the tax payers are offering.

bibiking7:

[b][size=15pt]BRO (I dont know if you are a guy or girl), but thank you very much. I stopped reading comments at your comment, because this has summed it all up. Its blackmail, for people to expect them to work for less because, if they dont people will die. Phuck these people, peeps used to protest in france over hikes in the price of bread.
You wont believe how many government sponsored ex-militants are running programs abroad, they are on full scholarship. So Doctors are termed selfish because they want better welfare packages, ridiculous. Most of the Phuck heads here dont even know what it takes to become a doctor. Some of those doctors just got infected with ebola just for doing their jobs. And Some PHUCKING retarded guinea pigs are here talking about sacking 16000 doctors, its impossible, we dont even have enough of them to start with. We should even be ashamed of ourselves for making them go on strike.

If anybody likes, you can quote me, i dont think that i am coming back to this thread, most of the comments are irritating.

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I am not a doctor. .[/size] [/b]

phantom:

people like you are lucky the internet does not need a visa. sorry if you are offended.

bushdoc9919:
We leave because our hospitals do not have sufficient facilities for training and for patient care. And because we do not have sufficent funds for clinical research.

And because it gets painful to watch as sick patients die because ''we do not have x''.

Ask yourself....are our teaching hosptials up to standard?

Do you want my resident colleagues to call off the strike...so that we can continue managing poor facilties?

INFACT.....that is one of the two MAIN reasons why the resident doctors union NARD....is on strike.

EHoudini: I learnt from experience that most doctors are inherently insecure. Strip them of title; they got nothing left: blank, pathetic n lost! Have those ever travel out of the see what's obtainable else? They should the statusque is simply not sustainable. Thumbs up gej. God bless nigeria

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But these facilities was good enough to train them?

My friend Victor has been at home since Dec. Graduate and inducted from OAU last year and he's not gotten a place to do his house job......all because some resident doctors won't work and won't let others work.

rhymz: Can people stop twisting the facts and reality on ground.... residents are not even licensed doctors so what is this talk about the hospitals coming to a halt because medical graduate trainees have been sacked. Are you guys for real. With or without Resident docs, the teaching hospitals can run fine, all the management need to do is make little changes and tweaks here and there. The absence of residents can not stop a hospital from running, for God's sake these guys are a little above the medical students.


Do you all know the other levels above residents who are already licensed and can perform without supervision?
There are specialists, fellows and consultants, all doctors..... So how does the suspension of the residency program equate to sacking 16000 doctors.... Na only residents dey work for FG hospitals ni?
Abeg let's be realistic, these guys had it coming when they left the profession and started a power tussle and politics first with colleagues and in extension with the FG their employers. They allowed the consultants to use them as pawns forgetting that they are just graduate trainees who can be used to out fears in the mind of their bosses.

kingthreat:
You are very retarded for insulting medics. Maybe when ur life is in their hands, you will value them

korm2me:
hmmmmmm. I wonder if the word IMPECILE is in the English dictionary. lol

korm2me:
hmmmmmm. I wonder if the word IMPECILE is in the English dictionary. lol

mikolo80: already have. All this mouth na because you get work .make them crash nigeria finish,when you have to go to farm with god and cutlass lets see he you'll still be defending thieves unless of course you're benefitting from the thieves.me de find work cos i refused to benefit from free money.trust me its not fun and i doubt i'd rock the boat again if there is a do over

Uteghe: Nigerian doctors have outlived their usefulness. Medicine is a calling like policing and soldiering. There should be no room for strike. Anyone not comfortable with that should go join some other profession. Doctors-most of whom are rude,pompous and antagonistic to their hapless patients-should know that the blood of the dead during their stupid strikes will be upon their head. Their sack stays.

thepathologist:

u will swallow ur vomit. accident or serious illness is awaiting u or ur family members. then u would beg educated fools to rescue you.

Lightening:

Highly skilled ko. Nigerians still flock to india for the most elemental treatment. Your next defence will now be that government is underfunding the health sector, yet the same is producing "highly skilled" doctors according to you.

The gamble has backfired. Maybe if the resident doctors start sponsoring themselves, they might start enjoying better welfare than what the tax payers are offering.

ObiOkpor: Aish!
Wish am a doctor,i would have applied to be taken....

Useless bunch of doctors on strike,when the nation needed them most.....They should all GO TO HELL!

abbakacici: Nigeria has 20 teaching hospitals, 18 Specialty Hospitals and 22 Federal Medical Centres. so based on your logic you believed that Nigeria cant have 16000 resident doctors. let used basic 1) residency is usually 5-8 years . hospital have like 20-30 units

let used 7 years and 25 units only for teaching hospitals (assuming each hospital take only 3 resident per unit that 75 resident per hospital per year thus each hospital will minimum of 525 resident at any given time. that almost 10500. second Federal Medical Centres let assumed take only 1 resident for year that total of 25 per and 175 and 3850 for the Federal Medical Centres. Specialty Hospitals will have somewhere around 5 unit and take only 2 resident per unit per year that a total of 70 resident per hospital if you added all that almost 15000 plus.

you make easy for you here is another example based 3 new resident per unit means Lagos University Teaching Hospital will have 21 Dentist resident, that about 7 resident per shit with 2-3 consultant, and if you have even being to any teaching hospital you will see similar thing

ideepaul:
that you have the freedom of speech does not mean your brain has the capacity to process speech...think well and give prove when you talk

phantom:

not just any doctor o!! he sacked the very people on which our health system is based. looks like you guys dont understand who resident doctors are.

he sacked highly skilled doctors!! that is you CANT REPLACE THEM WITH OTHER DOCTORS. THAT IS THE ISSUE.

akmoh:
After all has been said the reality on ground still if the govt is responsible for training 95% of resident doctors you should know that its a dumb practice. Private hands should come in and fill in the remaining space. We have very few doctors in Nigeria, and the few doctors available prefer working for the govt because that's where they can get easy and sustained source of income. Govt really has to reform health care in this country and the best way to start is to reduce the workforce in her direct employ. A situation where a teaching hospital gets annual allocation from the govt that they cannot generate internally in 3 years is totally unacceptable. Do you know that majority of the docs with 1 year post nysc experience lack a lot of skills and the residency program provides an opportunity for them to enhance their skill set and productivity? So know from today that the relationship between the resident docs and their employer is supposed to be a win win relationship and the govt/employer holds all the aces. Without residency training where you and I present ourselves as guinea pigs for the training of docs the docs can never improve their skills.

vicoloni:

People like you can never be a doctor. Your fish brain won't allow you to make the required jamb score.

Guidette: I am a med student about to finish and by God who made me, I cannot see myself working in Nigeria. The health system is in shambles that is ill equipped and hardly regulated.
Doctors are not the cause of our problems. The govt that has neglected our healthcare of Nigerian citizens for decades has made the system so rotten beyond repair. If I was a doctor in Nigeria, I will demand over a million naira as salary because it is haaaarrrrrddddd to do your job without the proper equipment under unsanitary conditions. They are not greedy, but are demanding compensation for all the chaos around them.
The system begets who they are. Nobody wants to upgrade the health system because the corruption has eaten way too deep. Any challenge to the status quois met with resistance in the form of sack of the residents. Normal nations are supposed to spend I think about 25% of budget on healthcare as advices by WHO. I am very sure we don't even spend up to 10% and even then, not all of it gets to where it is needed.
Anyways sha, as usual the govt will see the error of their ways and reverse this nonsense. And I will be here sipping my tea.

ObiOkpor: Tell that to your USELESS family if at all you have one...
Did i tell you i wanna be a doctor?
Silly IDIOT!
Am proud of my profession and when you come,i will LECTURE you..
Once more,you're hopeless....

Samgreguc:
and the specialist are low skilled? . . . ,
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Dnt talk like the resident doc are more skild than the consultants.
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BTW, the program was jst suspended to save money and possibly spring up fears.

erico2k2:
Leave these people who are so slow that they cant put an argument forward without insulting people and they claim they are civilized

ozodigboo: Some pple don't understand d issues.
Sacking resident docs, is like sacking every doctor.
All doctors are bound by the Hippocratic oath_ nobody will dare apply for any new job opening.
Fashola was used . . . he employed locum docs..... what happened later ?
He recalled d sacked docs, but the new locum docs, refused to be disengaged. . . . meaning more docs on state employment.
If Fashola dared sack d locum guys, when next there will be strike & u call for locum, nobody will listen to u. . . they will say u wanna use and dump.
GEJ has started what he can't finish.
Consultants and medical officers will NOT start work, and they can't be sacked by fiat becos they are PERMANENT CIVIL SERVICE STAFF.



And. . . . what are we even saying ?
Assuming some young, inexperienced docs go n apply, no matter how few. . . do u want to entrust ur LIFE onto them ?
And assuming d experienced docs, resident docs etc are frustrated to return to work against their will..........will u entrust ur LIFE on a group of embittered docs who are so angry with d nigerian populace who didn't back them ?

plz go back and read my opening sentence again.