That Tuesday morning continued to throw updrama, until things got to a head. The theaterwas suddenly shut down by the JOHESUpeople. They all wanted their own consultantsto join up with the consultant surgeons for thesurgery before anything could be done in thetheater. Even the cleaners, the clerks, thetechnicians, all wanted their consultants todress up and join the surgeons. After all, thegovernment had just approved their demands,one of which and most importantly was toappoint them consultants. "You are not betterthan us" they chanted. "We have switched offthe power and water; the theater is not swept;the instruments are not washed; and we havelocked up the theater. Nothing will happen hereuntil, we have our own consultants; The federalgovernment has signed it!"The surgeons, adamant, wanted to break thedoors and have the procedure done against allodds, and that's when the fight began. TheJOHESU mob, descended on the consultants.Meehn! The old men had to run for their lives.This was real hate-driven fight, nothing likesurgical procedures which they were used to.But, this was the last straw that broke thecamel's back.* * *There were emergency meetings of all doctors'associations all over the federation becausesimilar ugly anarchy had occurred nationalwide. That was when the doctors came up withthe twenty four point demand for the federalgovernment to look into and implement, in orderto sanitize the health sector and bring it backto order. But, they were wrong.They were wrong because, some politicians,desperate to win elections next year, hadalready sided with the far more populousJOHESU who had swiftly gotten the other tradeunions to sympathize with them, by telling thelies of "doctors pride and arrogance." So, thegovernment threw out the doctors' demands,ordering them to get back to the hospitals."But, your excellency, the hospital is not likeevery other institution. Things must be of thehighest standards; you don't just go aboutgranting consultancy to everyone because, thatterm describes patient-doctor relationships andgranting it to everyone will disrupt the chain ofcommand which is critical to the success andefficiency of the hospital. Besides, how can wegrant consultancy to clerks, cleaners, wardorderlies, cooks, nutritionists etc. This will leadto anarchy." Our representative was as calm asice, while he spoke."Everybody in the hospital, must be equal.That's what JOHESU demands and it must bedone," the government spokesman thundered."OK, whatever, but, we thought we could help inorganizing the health sector since the doctorsare the protectors of health care in the country.We thought it was our duty to point out thisdisaster about to happen", our representativeoffered. He continued. "What you are aboutdoing is like coming to the army and orderingthat everyone must be equal. You know, thiswill cause a lot of anarchy and disruption andthen collapse because, everyone would startdoing do as they please.""That's not the concern of the government fornow," the government spokesman, with a heavyIgbo accent, thundered.Our representative was visibly disappointed.But, somehow, he, managed to go on."Fine. We don't have much choice here, but tofind a way to cope with the anarchy. But, whatabout the other demands we made, like thegovernment equipping the hospitals, granting100% insurance to the citizens, improving ourhazard allowance, and payments of all theallowances government have never paid us eventhough it has been promising to pay us for thelast twenty years. We also want to bereassured that JOHESU be stopped fromchasing and pushing pathologist away from thelab, as you know the pathologist is far far thebest qualified to head the Labs. And we alsodemand that the post of CMD be reserved fordoctors because it is a post defined by doctor-patient relationship and as such, belongsnaturally to the doctors." He went on toenumerate all the twenty four point demands.And all along, the government spokesmanlooked impatiently irritated." Have you finished?" he asked ourrepresentative."Yes, sir""Well, JOHESU has demanded that non of theseyour demands must be met. They do not wantdoctors to earn higher than them or be placedhigher than them in any case. So, Yourdemands are null and void"."But, you met their demands, why not ours?"" I'm done with you people. Just go away."We were so downcast when we left the meetinghall. Surely, JOHESU's alliance with the bbiasedmedia has paid dividends. The governmentalways follow the public opinion and throughbribery and lies to the media, JOHESU had wonthe public opinion.It was really not difficult to explain. And onequestion was in our minds. How were we goingto run the hospitals, now? The anarchy wouldsurely worsen. The doctors would start goingabroad and establishing their own teachinghospitals; the government hospitals wouldsurely collapse. Everyone will now become adoctor and patients will surely die as a result.But, in the midst of the sorrow, our ever strongpresident spoke up."We'll down our tools; this is the time to savethe health sector or let it fall apart, if we fail.We'll go on our own strike, to press home ourpoints, our demands." He beamed with resolve."Yes, supported! Solidarity! Now or never!"Came our coruse.We were all elated and ready to fight. Because,the fight is not about our ego and pride, as theyhave told the media, but, for the well being ofthe health sector and the patients, we werereinvigorated and ready and resolved to fight tillthe end. We knew that letting up would spell theend to excellence and quality in health care inthis country. So we went home encouraged.* * *Meanwhile back in the hospitals, the anarchyworsened. the newly appointed 'consultants'would not listen to anyone, tampered withpatients management, would not do their work.And as patients died in their numbers becausethe 'doctor pharmacists' have startedtampering with doctors' prescriptions, andbecause the lab scientists were now prescribingdrugs, the doctors were blamed.This hastened the decision of the doctors to goon strike and continue with the strike. And eventhe recent sack of most of the doctors have notbroken their resolve to continue the fight untilorder and sanity is restored. Only one thinghurts me, personally, though. My friend, Ikenna.Somehow, the post exposure prophylaxis hetook after the hiv patient had stuck a needle onhis forehead, did not work or perhaps, failed ata point. And now, he has become infected. Herecently went to test himself for hisinternational passport and there, he testedpositive. Ah! He was only trying to save lives.And he is still a virgin. He could not havegotten it through sex.Yesterday, he cried again, while we perusedthrough the papers and saw the headlines andwords used to describe doctors. Words like'wicked', 'Barbaric', 'greedy', 'insensitive' etc. Itoo, shed a tear or two.

Was all this tins happening in your dream or you have such erractic imaginations.hehehehehehee

˚°◦ooo☺º°˚˚°ºo boy! You need to see a psychatrist. It is crazy how you guys come up with soooo much unbelivable and outrageous lies trying to gain public sympathy.

In your incredulous dream please which hospital did the johesu mob beat up consultants and demanded that consultant cooks must be in the theatre cooking for the patient. Hahahahahaha

This has got to be the most hilarous writeup on this issue so far.

Stop freting the FG will call back the residents soon, they are just waiting for the commitee report so that peace will reign in the hospital once and for all

You don't have to cook up such terrible white lies to gain public sympathy.it is obvious it is not working
Stop telling incredible tales already!
Gosh!!!

Ur virgin friend got stuck with the HIV needle on his forehead hahahahahahaha he bin wan use am scratch head.heheheheheehehehe does he work in a psychatric hospital abi na patrick sawyer HIv insensitive brother with a mission chuk am.

The nma rep spke calmly while johesu rep thundered and FG rep was impatient and irritated

Chai! Nollywood should produce this he go sell well well hahahahahaha

Chai there is God oh

Nonsense write up filled with lies ,sentiments Απϑ emotions instead of reality.ℓ̊ have never beleived a doctor can write such nonsense!!!
If this is the level doctors have degenerated τ̅☺ then ℓ̊ feel pity for them.this Ȋ̝̊̅§ what greed Απϑ selfishness Ȋ̝̊̅§ landing doctors into Απϑ ℓ̊ promise you if you guys don't drop greed Απϑ wickedness,"more unpleasant surprises awaits you in this country".ℓ̊ hate selfish people as "NMA".

Can't you ask yourself as vital as your role Ȋ̝̊̅§ as doctors yet you have lost every respect Απϑ dignity you have in the face of the public.shame τ̅☺ you!!!
As for residency ,stop crying,govt never stopped you from doing it.infact it will appreciate you so much as a specialist"consultant or what have you"but take your primaries exams Απϑ if successful sponsor your self from ur pocket,it Ȋ̝̊̅§ your self your building τ̅☺ become a consultant not gov.Απϑ off course when you become one, you will be paid fat salary unlike medical officer. S̶̲̥̅Ơ̴̴̴̴̴̴͡ who Ȋ̝̊̅§ cheating who"
ALl those nonsense of you work so much as reg.,don't work now let's see who suffers it .let's see how U̶̲̥̅̊ become competent specialist that you aspire τ̅☺ be.Ȋ̝̊̅§ it not τ̅☺ your advantage that you Ƌ̲яε̲̣̣̣̥ allowed τ̅☺ work or make important decisions about patients as a reg?Ȋ̝̊̅§ that not part of your clinical experience? Infact you should be the one paying both patient who subject themselves forr training Απϑ govt who made the facility available, cos you will certainly enjoy the dividends both monitary,honour Απϑ expertise when U̶̲̥̅̊ certainly become a consultant.

Ƌ̲яε̲̣̣̣̥ you the only ones exposed τ̅☺ hazards in hlt sector?yet you present it in such a way that only doctors Ƌ̲яε̲̣̣̣̥ exposed or as if you guys Ƌ̲яε̲̣̣̣̥ exposed τ̅☺ much hazards which Ȋ̝̊̅§ a cheap lie.

It Ȋ̝̊̅§ only Nigerian doctors that Ƌ̲яε̲̣̣̣̥ so wicked Απϑ don't want the progress of other health worker for silly ,selfish Απϑ ego driven reasons.Gosh ℓ̊ dislike wickedness.

drmat02: That T uesday morning continued to throw updrama, until things got to a head. The theaterwas suddenly shut down by the JOHESUpeople. They all wanted their own consultantsto join up with the consultant surgeons for thesurgery before anything could be done in thetheater. Even the cleaners, the clerks, thetechnicians, all wanted their consultants todress up and join the surgeons. After all, thegovernment had just approved their demands,one of which and most importantly was toappoint them consultants. "You are not betterthan us" they chanted. "We have switched offthe power and water; the theater is not swept;the instruments are not washed; and we havelocked up the theater. Nothing will happen hereuntil, we have our own consultants; The federalgovernment has signed it!"The surgeons, adamant, wanted to break thedoors and have the procedure done against allodds, and that's when the fight began. TheJOHESU mob, descended on the consultants.Meehn! The old men had to run for their lives.This was real hate-driven fight, nothing likesurgical procedures which they were used to.But, this was the last straw that broke thecamel's back.* * *There were emergency meetings of all doctors'associations all over the federation becausesimilar ugly anarchy had occurred nationalwide. That was when the doctors came up withthe twenty four point demand for the federalgovernment to look into and implement, in orderto sanitize the health sector and bring it backto order. But, they were wrong.They were wrong because, some politicians,desperate to win elections next year, hadalready sided with the far more populousJOHESU who had swiftly gotten the other tradeunions to sympathize with them, by telling thelies of "doctors pride and arrogance." So, thegovernment threw out the doctors' demands,ordering them to get back to the hospitals."But, your excellency, the hospital is not likeevery other institution. Things must be of thehighest standards; you don't just go aboutgranting consultancy to everyone because, thatterm describes patient-doctor relationships andgranting it to everyone will disrupt the chain ofcommand which is critical to the success andefficiency of the hospital. Besides, how can wegrant consultancy to clerks, cleaners, wardorderlies, cooks, nutritionists etc. This will leadto anarchy." Our representative was as calm asice, while he spoke."Everybody in the hospital, must be equal.That's what JOHESU demands and it must bedone," the government spokesman thundered."OK, whatever, but, we thought we could help inorganizing the health sector since the doctorsare the protectors of health care in the country.We thought it was our duty to point out thisdisaster about to happen", our representativeoffered. He continued. "What you are aboutdoing is like coming to the army and orderingthat everyone must be equal. You know, thiswill cause a lot of anarchy and disruption andthen collapse because, everyone would startdoing do as they please.""That's not the concern of the government fornow," the government spokesman, with a heavyIgbo accent, thundered.Our representative was visibly disappointed.But, somehow, he, managed to go on."Fine. We don't have much choice here, but tofind a way to cope with the anarchy. But, whatabout the other demands we made, like thegovernment equipping the hospitals, granting100% insurance to the citizens, improving ourhazard allowance, and payments of all theallowances government have never paid us eventhough it has been promising to pay us for thelast twenty years. We also want to bereassured that JOHESU be stopped fromchasing and pushing pathologist away from thelab, as you know the pathologist is far far thebest qualified to head the Labs. And we alsodemand that the post of CMD be reserved fordoctors because it is a post defined by doctor-patient relationship and as such, belongsnaturally to the doctors." He went on toenumerate all the twenty four point demands.And all along, the government spokesmanlooked impatiently irritated." Have you finished?" he asked ourrepresentative."Yes, sir""Well, JOHESU has demanded that non of theseyour demands must be met. They do not wantdoctors to earn higher than them or be placedhigher than them in any case. So, Yourdemands are null and void"."But, you met their demands, why not ours?"" I'm done with you people. Just go away."We were so downcast when we left the meetinghall. Surely, JOHESU's alliance with the bbiasedmedia has paid dividends. The governmentalways follow the public opinion and throughbribery and lies to the media, JOHESU had wonthe public opinion.It was really not difficult to explain. And onequestion was in our minds. How were we goingto run the hospitals, now? The anarchy wouldsurely worsen. The doctors would start goingabroad and establishing their own teachinghospitals; the government hospitals wouldsurely collapse. Everyone will now become adoctor and patients will surely die as a result.But, in the midst of the sorrow, our ever strongpresident spoke up."We'll down our tools; this is the time to savethe health sector or let it fall apart, if we fail.We'll go on our own strike, to press home ourpoints, our demands." He beamed with resolve."Yes, supported! Solidarity! Now or never!"Came our coruse.We were all elated and ready to fight. Because,the fight is not about our ego and pride, as theyhave told the media, but, for the well being ofthe health sector and the patients, we werereinvigorated and ready and resolved to fight tillthe end. We knew that letting up would spell theend to excellence and quality in health care inthis country. So we went home encouraged.* * *Meanwhile back in the hospitals, the anarchyworsened. the newly appointed 'consultants'would not listen to anyone, tampered withpatients management, would not do their work.And as patients died in their numbers becausethe 'doctor pharmacists' have startedtampering with doctors' prescriptions, andbecause the lab scientists were now prescribingdrugs, the doctors were blamed.This hastened the decision of the doctors to goon strike and continue with the strike. And eventhe recent sack of most of the doctors have notbroken their resolve to continue the fight untilorder and sanity is restored. Only one thinghurts me, personally, though. My friend, Ikenna.Somehow, the post exposure prophylaxis hetook after the hiv patient had stuck a needle onhis forehead, did not work or perhaps, failed ata point. And now, he has become infected. Herecently went to test himself for hisinternational passport and there, he testedpositive. Ah! He was only trying to save lives.And he is still a virgin. He could not havegotten it through sex.Yesterday, he cried again, while we perusedthrough the papers and saw the headlines andwords used to describe doctors. Words like'wicked', 'Barbaric', 'greedy', 'insensitive' etc. Itoo, shed a tear or two.

When you ve got enough intelligence to study medicine even if to prove you can be a doctor; then you ll be taken seriously. Loser.