tpia.:

^^ and that (raining curses on the "haters" is the solution to Nigeria's lack of health infrastructure.

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that is some swear word right there.

ode remo:

Dominoifet:

The docs need not bother themselves.
They careless. How many of them- president, FEC, senators, rep, governors, chairmen etc do patronise d ministry of health or its service dispensing arm- general hospital? None, Its for the common man.

Maybe they have been trying Med Prac in d past and with little or no result. Which informed their choice that the nurse will deliver, and if he don't they should try an auxiliary nurse. Nigeria sure knows how to go down the drain.

hobat4cash:

Ordinarily i would not respond to silly comments, but i will like to ask what makes people think that by appointing a nurse we are retrogressing? Is that nurse not a graduate like any medical doctor? It makes me sick when people look down on others. so it is only a medical doctor that can lead the health ministry? hisssssss maybe it should be called medical doctors ministry.

snowdrops:

Good point. PDP  did not have enough credible medical doctors to choose from before appointing the minister. I am sure if they had they would have selected a doctor as had always been the norm.
This should teach the doctors a lesson; majority allow themselves to be swallowed up in clinical and academic work and simply ignore politics, the few that delve into it are either not brave enough to progress or get fixed in juicy positions.
We should not kid ourselves, appointing a nurse is going to be a disaster. He cannot command the respect of health professionals and would struggle in organising and managing the various tiers in the health sector.
Same goes for a country like britain, who her most recent health minister [equivalent] was a wait for it, POST MASTER. Luckily he surrounded himself with good advisers who literarily ran the ministry.

ziga:

If the heads in Nigeria are like this, then there is really no problem with anybody running any ministry. He will just act as a team leader.

Unfortunately, in Nigeria, the heads are the alpha and omegas, and he will do and undo and make decisions that he has no knowledge about. And anybody who tries to even offer good suggestions will be seen as a being a threat and insubordinate, and will be severely dealt with.

aisha2:

Lol, I go ban u oh

Exactly. People need to know this before attacking others. Whether they accept it or not, the training doctors receive is no where comparable to other health professionals, with all due respect to them.
And again, i know this would raise a few eyebrows, doctors on average have a much higher IQ than nurses. Imagine when we all were in secondary school, the most brilliant guys/girls where did 70% of them end up? How many of them went on to be nurses? JAMB cut off marks, tell me year on year, whats that for medicine compared with other faculties? Whats the entry criteria to be a nurse? How many gcse/o levels are needed?
You cant deny the fact that you need a smart and intelligent person to be your number one health officer, because its human lives we are talking about and not machines.