I just learnt that the health workers are on strike,
I have been researching about the issue,
I am in the law profession. so I am neutral here,
Tell us how this issue of N.M.A Vs Johesu can be solved,
Make a suggestion on how the mess in the health sector can be cleared up.
Let's hear your opinions

Lalasticlala this is front page worthy

1. Let the government hand over hospital administration to administrators. It's obvious doctors are bad administrators
2. Let medical doctors see other health professionals as team members and not rivals

Babybush:
1. Let the government hand over hospital administration to administrators. It's obvious doctors are bad administrators
2. Let medical doctors see other health professionals as team members and not rivals

Whether they see other as team members or not does not matter,
What matters is Johesu getting justice.
I am happy that Nigerians are now aware of the mess in the health sector and the cause.
How one profession want to suppress other professions is shocking.

By sacking the minister of health and appointing an unbiased healthcare administrator who is not a medical doctor.

By sacking all the Chief medical directors of our public hospitals and appointing unbiased managers with qualifications in Management.

By creating separate directorates for the different professional groups rendering expert services in the hospitals e.g, directorate of medical services (to be headed by a physician), directorate of nursing services to be headed by a nurse, directorate of pharmaceutical services to be headed by a Pharmacist, directorate of med lab services to be headed by a medical lab scientist etc.

All the heads of directorate will enjoy equal rights and privileges and will be answerable to the Manager.

The different professional groups should be given the opportunity to grow in their fields and earn a decent living just as what obtains in the international community.

Government should outsource key units like laboratory, pharmacy and also improve on healthcare regulation .

sartorius:
Government should outsource key units like laboratory, pharmacy .

why?

The liist should include medical records and Radiographers.

Privatise the whole system, bring in investors, make available universal insurance to make the privatise system affordable

Both are just fighting for their selfish interest.... That's all I have to say

who is NMA? Who is JOHESU? Are they wrestlers or boxers? Kindly describe who they are. Thanks

They should all mind their lane and stop putting eye into the other's remuneration. You guys are better off than some other civil servants...but greed will not allow you people see road. Ask teachers that give their all to train and groom people how far. Greedy bunch. If I am government eh, no work, no pay.

empower the herbalist and let them handle health cases well.

Simple, vote APC out of power.

Hmmmm, for those of us who are still young and ambitious, we can leave the country to places where we would be better appreciated and work without looking over our heads.....and we're already at it.
Since JOHESU want to abrogate to themselves the duties and role of the Doctor, let's allow them do just that. Last last we would be fine.

Doctors should not be the only ones heading the Units. Why will the doctors be the heads of all Federal Medical centres? You will see a small boy Doctor who left school barely 5 years ago will be controlling a senior matron Nurse who has been working for 30 year with Masters Degree in Nursing. Johesu is right on that! Being a doctor is by choice, many people did not want to be doctors from the outset of their lives, they wants to Medical scientist, pharmacist, Nurse, Radiologist, etc. Must everybody be doctor to head a unit?

Why are we acting like Doctors are super human? they simply chose to be! Others who chose other career have right to rule.

CONMESS and CONHESS thing is a scam initiated by the then minister of health(Kuti) who was a doctor.

They should be on same salary scale.
Differences can come in allowances and not basic salary scale.

A doctor shouldn't be superior to other health workers.

The difference is just too much.

Jman06:
By sacking the minister of health and appointing an unbiased healthcare administrator who is not a medical doctor.

By sacking all the Chief medical directors of our public hospitals and appointing unbiased managers with qualifications in Management.

By creating separate directorates for the different professional groups rendering expert services in the hospitals e.g, directorate of medical services (to be headed by a physician), directorate of nursing services to be headed by a nurse, directorate of pharmaceutical services to be headed by a Pharmacist, directorate of med lab services to be headed by a medical lab scientist etc.

All the heads of directorate will enjoy equal rights and privileges and will be answerable to the Manager.

The different professional groups should be given the opportunity to grow in their fields and earn a decent living just as what obtains in the international community.

good

Dething:
Doctors should be the only ones heading the Units. Johesu is right on that. Being A doctor is by choice.

Should not; I guess.

xreal:
CONMESS and CONHESS thing is a scam initiated by the then minister of health(Kuti) who was a doctor.

They should be on same salary scale.
Differences can come in allowances and not basic salary scale.

A doctor shouldn't be superior to other health workers.

The difference is just too much.

you know that will never happen.I am not a medical doctor but it would be grossly unfair to suggest Doctors should earn same thing as lab scientists or nurses.It is even laughable to suggest.Go on strike from now until 2028 it wont happen.It takes a lot to become a medical Doctor.If there are to nearn the same thing peope would rather chose to become lab scientists or nurses than to go through the rigours that it takes to become a medical Doctor.

How is it done in other countries?

Study it, adapt it to our needs and implement it here.

Dont worry Johesu . Many more docs will leave the shores of this country . I just pity the ordinary nigerians who will be left to d caprices of nurses and pharmacists.
It is only in my country nurses n pharmacists claim to know what d doctors does except for surgery. Una go dey alrighr las las
That is how one nurse almost killed during nysc because she claimed to know more that d nysc doctor . I spent more days in the hospital flushing out d drug she administered as i had a bad reaction to it .

Dething:
Doctors should be the only ones heading the Units. Johesu is right on that. Being A doctor is by choice.

Yes it is by choice but if the reward is the same we will have less people making the choice to become Doctors in view of the rigours it takes to become a medical doctor compared to those of other medical professions

They should accept MDs as their superior nih that's the solution

You can't compare a MD with a nurse, pharmacist etc
7years of study, and they've got experiences more than the rest
Let them even fork off, MDs will do their works for them buh they can't do the work of a MD....Simple!!

amaham:
Privatise the whole system, bring in investors, make available universal insurance to make the privatise system affordable

why privitizing everything in Nigeria. If Nigeria privatize govt hospitals, then Nigeria is finish