Comrade360:
Honestly... This actually made me proud... Kudos to those Nigerians doctors

harbjar:
meanwhile to become a dr in NIgeria.. u need to get over 300 in jamb + strong leg in the university

Caustics:
[s]one of the biggest rubbish i have seen today. who is she to commend or not commend our doctors?
No one will give a fork if a channels tv reporter commended our doctors[/s]

Caustics:
who doesn't know she is a Nigerian? So what?

phineas:
Nigeria health care professionals in clinical practice especially in the public system need commendations again and again.That said they have many areas to improve on.But with the present re our ces they have,they are accomplishing excellent deeds at the cost of great personal sacrifice.

To understand this well one needs to review the VOLUME of cases seen by the average Nigeria public hospital per period of time.and the patient to Dr/Nurses ratio to appreciate their services.

Compare it with the funds they work it.resources available and the stage the cases came in to understand these guys are working magic to keep the system afloat.

An example.A hospital somewhere in Nigeria sees over 6000 delivery cases a year with approximately 5
Doctors.

90%of these cases do not book for antenatal Care.They come in as emergencies.

That means all the team put in lots of extra time to meet up and practically spend their days and nights in the hospital.

Add poor renumeration,abuse at work by superpriors,office politics (johesu refuses to do their work so you carry some part of it so you dont get litigation)and the psychological challenges of not meeting up to family and societies expectations and you start to understand that the medical Doctors in this countries are overworked, underpaid,depressed bunch of persons still trying against all odds


Before you add nurses to this equation,it is true the patient to nurses ratio is also ridiculous and unrealistic which means not all can be done by 2 persons on shift within a short time.But with nursing they don't go the extra mile.

A nurse runs shifts and once their shift is over they are out.They have spaced their shifts to enable adequate resting period for themselves.The buck does not stop at their table so they quick to pass the unsolvable problem and blame (wheter true or not )up the ladder thereby exonerated


In summary there are Still lots of unemployed Medicall persons in Nigeria.The country will do well to train and retrain all these persons

Caustics:
one of the biggest rubbish i have seen today. who is she to commend or not commend our doctors?
No one will give a fork if a channels tv reporter commended our doctors

Caustics:
one of the biggest rubbish i have seen today. who is she to commend or not commend our doctors?
No one will give a fork if a channels tv reporter commended our doctors

funmisticqueen:
You are very right, also, if there is any bad thread e.g the thread where a woman lost her child due to doctor's negligence in a certain private hospital, you wont see the nurses asking for them to be added in that kind of headline even when nurses were involved in that story.

phineas:
Nigeria health care professionals in clinical practice especially in the public system need commendations again and again.That said they have many areas to improve on.But with the present re our ces they have,they are accomplishing excellent deeds at the cost of great personal sacrifice.

To understand this well one needs to review the VOLUME of cases seen by the average Nigeria public hospital per period of time.and the patient to Dr/Nurses ratio to appreciate their services.

Compare it with the funds they work it.resources available and the stage the cases came in to understand these guys are working magic to keep the system afloat.

An example.A hospital somewhere in Nigeria sees over 6000 delivery cases a year with approximately 5
Doctors.

90%of these cases do not book for antenatal Care.They come in as emergencies.

That means all the team put in lots of extra time to meet up and practically spend their days and nights in the hospital.

Add poor renumeration,abuse at work by superpriors,office politics (johesu refuses to do their work so you carry some part of it so you dont get litigation)and the psychological challenges of not meeting up to family and societies expectations and you start to understand that the medical Doctors in this countries are overworked, underpaid,depressed bunch of persons still trying against all odds


Before you add nurses to this equation,it is true the patient to nurses ratio is also ridiculous and unrealistic which means not all can be done by 2 persons on shift within a short time.But with nursing they don't go the extra mile.

A nurse runs shifts and once their shift is over they are out.They have spaced their shifts to enable adequate resting period for themselves.The buck does not stop at their table so they quick to pass the unsolvable problem and blame (wheter true or not )up the ladder thereby exonerated


In summary there are Still lots of unemployed Medicall persons in Nigeria.The country will do well to train and retrain all these persons

SirVintageCock:
What are you people justifying? Isha Sesay commended both doctors and nurses but nurses are excluded from the headline and you are here spewing why it is right to exclude them not minding what the original post said.
So you see, the problem of Nigerians is from Nigerians if you didn't see anything wrong with that.Who didn't know where the buck stops, is it Isha an international journalist of great repute? This is not even an excuse at all. call it as it is. In short this speaks volume of Nigerian mentality. Very shallow.

funmisticqueen:
I am not saying nurses shouldnt be excluded, but to also remember to ask to be written in the headlines when the news is bad too and stop being fair weather people. I respect nurses a lot and i am not trying to shad them

funmisticqueen:
I am not saying nurses shouldnt be excluded, but to also remember to ask to be written in the headlines when the news is bad too and stop being fair weather people. I respect nurses a lot and i am not trying to shad them

DrGraveYardz:
You see how foreigners are commending Nigerian doctors? On the other hand, our corrupt politicians are quick to fly out just to check their BP! If you can't lead by example, then why are you a leader?

AreaFada2:


I believe that environment and culture matter in anything. Nigerian professionals in IT, healthcare, engineering, education and more do great abroad.

Why do Nigerian doctors become very good & blend into the advanced medical system in the West? Because it is more satisfying if you can do your job better and make a difference. Given the tools: training, encouragement, funding, impeccable facilities, etc.

Medical care is a very expensive. But Nigeria is investing too little in it. Therefore moral & quality suffer.

UK that is one-third of Nigerian population, Healthcare budget is £133.1 billion , well over N61 trillion Naira or over 8 times Nigeria's total federal budget.

Medical profession in Nigeria is very challenging and further training is insufficient.

Frustration is what you see manifest in Nigerian doctors at home. Coming across as rude, uncaring, etc.

Sure doctors can do better. Everyone needs to accept that patients/their loved ones are not responsible for the problems of funding that we have.

fistonati:
While Nigeria's President called Nigerians criminals outside the country.

Nigerians stand firm, no matter what.

almarthins:


All these are all written doomsday figures. Ask Cuba , let dem tell u ... Me I no dey support rubbish. Our doctors are only concern about salary increament above all. So who is fooling who na?

fistonati:
While Nigeria's President called Nigerians criminals outside the country.

Nigerians stand firm, no matter what.

fistonati:
While Nigeria's President called Nigerians criminals outside the country.

Nigerians stand firm, no matter what.

BobbyDean:
what? 120 urologist? A little over 600 paediatrician?(altho those ones fail residents like it's nothing). These figures are damn scary & unfortunately it's gonna get worse cos medical folks out here dont even want residency again or @least not in 9ja cos they feel it's waste of life. BTW, how come you have these facts & figures?

emorse:

For a second, I thought you were the CNN reporter. kudos to you.

AreaFada2:


Lol, I happened to have partly researched Cuban health care system. With a professor who had about 30 years experience of research the system in field work in Cuba. You have to go back to the actions of the revolutionary leaders to improve education making it one of best educated countries in the world. And the way they train doctors.

Things do not happen without concerted actions by the powers that be.

It easy to criticise from the outside. We all do that. But nothing like having proper comparative experiences to understand it better.

fastgyal:
I read wild.

fastgyal:
I read wild.