Isaac Adewole, minister of health, has directed chief medical directors (CMDs) and medical directors (MDs) of federal government tertiary health institutions to fill the vacancies created by resident doctors who have “abandoned” their training programme.

According to Boade Akinola, spokesperson of the ministry, the directive was contained in a circular signed by Amina Shamaki, permanent secretary of the ministry.

The circular reads:
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“It has come to the notice of the management of the ministry that some resident doctors in your establishment have voluntarily withdrawn from the residency training program by refusing to report for training without authorisation. public service rule, PSR 030402 (e) is relevant.

“This is in spite of the ongoing negotiations on their demands put forward by the representatives of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) under the auspices of the Nigerian Medical Association.

“In view of this development, you are hereby directed to replace all the doctors that have withdrawn their services, with others from the pool of applicants for the training programs in the various disciplines in order not to create ominous gap in training with attendant disruption of health care delivery in your facility.

“Meanwhile, the ministry is working with the panel on the review of the residency training programme in Nigeria, led by Professor Wole Atoyebi, the registrar of the National Postgraduate Medical College, to fast-track the development of a comprehensive blueprint for postgraduate training of doctors in the country.

“Please, ensure immediate compliance.”

Resident doctors in government hospitals embarked on a nationwide strike on Monday.

https://www.thecable.ng/breaking-fg-sacks-striking-doctors

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coyy:
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This one na wonderful opportunity for some Judas Iscariot(s)
Cc Job seekers a.k.a. prospective resident doctors a.k.a. awaiting residency placement doctors.

I hate Bullharry.
I hate APC.

SOUTHERN Doctors should Report the matter to the AVENGERS


NORTHERN Doctors should Report the matter to BOKO

Quoting my good friend

Too bad ..if this is true.

Wickedness at its peak.

This country eez a mess. Strike everywhere, meanwhile their medical staff in public hospitals treat people like shait so I have no sympathy for them. Bloody baggars

dedons:
I hate Bullharry.

I hate APC.

Hate Buhari for APC sake, if you have a close victim of this strike, you will hate doctors till eternity.
The doctors are insensitive. Another word for 'federal doctor' is now 'strike'. I was at an FMC yesterday, a woman scheduled for surgery was told to go home. Does it mean the surgery wasn't important in the first instance?? Do you know the psychological trauma she will be facing now if she's not even dead by now? For a sensitive job like theirs, there strike should be based on say 50% performance not total shut down.
They mostly do this to promote their private clinics.

Lalasticlala.

Send this to FP. It's very important that vitezens know what is going on.

Booking space for commenting on FP. After I read usual retorts from the public.

God please save ur people. So no body can talk again in this country, not even to express or show ur grievances peacefully.

Nigeria self mtcheew. God please take care of the poor that can't seek for medical treatment abroad.
Waiting for police to go on strike

I don't care what their reasons are. They should be sacked. Good move by PMB if the news is true

Wagasigiungu:
Isaac Adewole, minister of health, has directed chief medical directors (CMDs) and medical directors (MDs) of federal government tertiary health institutions to fill the vacancies created by resident doctors who have “abandoned” their training programme.

According to Boade Akinola, spokesperson of the ministry, the directive was contained in a circular signed by Amina Shamaki, permanent secretary of the ministry.

The circular reads:
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“It has come to the notice of the management of the ministry that some resident doctors in your establishment have voluntarily withdrawn from the residency training program by refusing to report for training without authorisation. public service rule, PSR 030402 (e) is relevant.

“This is in spite of the ongoing negotiations on their demands put forward by the representatives of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) under the auspices of the Nigerian Medical Association.

“In view of this development, you are hereby directed to replace all the doctors that have withdrawn their services, with others from the pool of applicants for the training programs in the various disciplines in order not to create ominous gap in training with attendant disruption of health care delivery in your facility.

“Meanwhile, the ministry is working with the panel on the review of the residency training programme in Nigeria, led by Professor Wole Atoyebi, the registrar of the National Postgraduate Medical College, to fast-track the development of a comprehensive blueprint for postgraduate training of doctors in the country.

“Please, ensure immediate compliance.”

Resident doctors in government hospitals embarked on a nationwide strike on Monday.

https://www.thecable.ng/breaking-fg-sacks-striking-doctors

Update!!!

The meeting ended after several hours and the resolutions reached are as follows;

(1) The Ministry of Health will come up with a list of those entitled to skipping and the amount, and they will pay  them in one week. Forty two (42) institutions that have not been implementing skipping should be asked to commence implementation immediately. Committee of CMDs to meet in one week and implement skipping and any CMD that is unable to pay should appear at the next meeting on July 14. The judgment of the Industrial Court must be executed.

(2) That by First week of July, guidelines on Residency Training will be made available.

(3). Entry point for House Officers should be from 9 step 4. It should be implemented immediately by the Chief Medical Directors.

(4). They should also start implementing pensions immediately.

(5). On those unfairly sacked, NARD will make records available to the ministry of Health. Minister of Health should issue a circular to CMDs to review the issue of those sacked unfairly without recourse to the earlier circular detailing the template to be followed. Circular to be sent on Wednesday June 22nd 2016 by the Minister to all health institutions and Federal Medical Centres running the Residency programme.

(6). The issue of FMC Owerri will be revisited. Meeting appealed to Minister to take a second look at it since doctors did not declare strike ab initio.

(7) IPPIS Will be implemented immediately, and doctors should be migrated to the platform with immediate effect.
Speaker to meet with Minister of Finance on the issue of IPPIS for all doctors.

(. Speaker should appeal to state Governors to pay Resident Doctors.

(9)Minister of Health said: “We will do everything humanly possible to implement all the decisions arrived at in this meeting including the fact the circular sacking Resident doctors be ignored by all the parties concerned.”

(10).  Resident doctors’ leaders at the meeting agreed to appeal to their members to suspend the strike until