The National Association of Resident Doctors has ordered its members nationwide to embark on a three-day warning strike from Wednesday.

NARD said Wednesday's strike was to protest against the poor funding of the residency training of its members by the Federal Government.

Already, the 21-day ultimatum given to the Federal Government by NARD expired on June 18, 2013.

NARD National President, Dr. Ismail Lawal, had about two weeks ago during a news conference at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu warned that the resident doctors across the country might embark on strike any moment after the 21-day ultimatum expired.

Lawal, who had expressed dismay at the inadequate funding of the residency training programme in the 2013 budget, had also said the union had given enough opportunity to the government to address the lapses.

But the NARD national president on Monday in Abeokuta, in a communique issued at the end of the association's National Executive Council meeting, directed all its members across the country to commence the warning strike as a form of protest against government attitude.

It said, "NARD has directed her members to embark on a three-day warning strike commencing from Wednessday June 26, 2013 to show our dissatisfaction at the unbecoming attitude of the Federal Government to the issue of residency training funding and the failure to yield to our demand for the supplementary budget for the training."

nas 00: Here is someone's online reaction to the NARD strike:

"There are many departments of government where funding is inadequate.
Why should the doctors take exception? Police, sports, the ministries and
parastatals are all underfunded. The doctors are arrogant and insensitive. Moreover doctors should be banned by legislation from going on strike. When they
resume their strike will they resurrect those who might have died because of
their action?"

Well, I'd say that is a layman's viewpoint. Cos if we consider this issue critically, the doctors are not only struggling for themselves, but for the average common man.
For instance, many teaching hospitals are without basic equipment needed to train residents (and manage patients). You see situations when patients have to travel from Port-Harcourt to LUTH just to have an MRI done, or patients asked to take a blood sample from UCH to pathcare (an NGO) in lagos, simply due to lack of hospital facility to provide these services.

If a UCH patient dies before the result of his blood test returns from lagos, who will resurrect him? OR if the patient traveling from PH to Lagos dies on the way (either due to illness or accident), who will resurrect him/ her?

Are these deaths any doctor's fault?

In my opinion, these are the things NARD is asking for. Better funding of the training programme will translate to:
1. More facility 'n equipment for training in teaching hospitals. Particularly
machines used to further investigate patients' condition, which guuides the doctor in better treating the patients.

2. More hands, which will significantly reduce the number of hours patients spend on clinic visits, waiting to see the doctor.

These, I believe, are the things NARD is asking the FG for, which is very much in order.

Who buys my ideas?

on a good day:


my problem with doctors is that they very greedy and insensitive...now they want pple to supprport them for better training,despite the ones they have already,

nas 00: Here is someone's online reaction to the NARD strike:

"There are many departments of government where funding is inadequate.
Why should the doctors take exception? Police, sports, the ministries and
parastatals are all underfunded. The doctors are arrogant and insensitive. Moreover doctors should be banned by legislation from going on strike. When they
resume their strike will they resurrect those who might have died because of
their action?"

Well, I'd say that is a layman's viewpoint. Cos if we consider this issue critically, the doctors are not only struggling for themselves, but for the average common man.
For instance, many teaching hospitals are without basic equipment needed to train residents (and manage patients). You see situations when patients have to travel from Port-Harcourt to LUTH just to have an MRI done, or patients asked to take a blood sample from UCH to pathcare (an NGO) in lagos, simply due to lack of hospital facility to provide these services.

If a UCH patient dies before the result of his blood test returns from lagos, who will resurrect him? OR if the patient traveling from PH to Lagos dies on the way (either due to illness or accident), who will resurrect him/ her?

Are these deaths any doctor's fault?

In my opinion, these are the things NARD is asking for. Better funding of the training programme will translate to:
1. More facility 'n equipment for training in teaching hospitals. Particularly
machines used to further investigate patients' condition, which guuides the doctor in better treating the patients.

2. More hands, which will significantly reduce the number of hours patients spend on clinic visits, waiting to see the doctor.

These, I believe, are the things NARD is asking the FG for, which is very much in order.

Who buys my ideas?

nas 00:

Lol.. You still don't get it. It's a two-way advantage:

The doctor receives standard training, the patient receives standard care.

Remember the world of medicine is not that static. New discoveries are made everyday. The way malaria was treated in 1990 is not the same today.

I don't think it's greed when you ask for things to be done the right way

Cheers.

on a good day:



very funny...and when the nurses and pharmacist get standard training,the patient gets substandard care huh!!!
and the police gets standard training the ppl get substandard policing,why have they not gone on strike....mtcheew!!!!!

nas 00:


Now, provide links to prove that doctors have kicked against better TRAINING of nurses or pharmacists in the past.

Since you have such a good case to put forward, let's deal with facts and not mere words

on a good day:


my problem with doctors is that they very greedy and insensitive...now they want pple to supprport them for better training,despite the ones they have already,

deols:

So you think the one they have is good enough and they should not seek upgrade?

Unfortunately, the patients suffer the consequences more.

on a good day:


https://m.facebook.com/NURSINGNIGERIA/posts/251204728335575


http://www.theinfostrides.com/index.php?topic=95030.0;imode

http://website.edostate.gov.ng/edo-doctors’-strike-reckless-oshiomhole-0
help urself man,i will give u more
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55107:-why-doctors-other-health-workers-disagree-over-health-bill&catid=93:science&Itemid=608

nas 00:

Very good bro. Now, I'm beginning to enjoy the flow.

To your first link:
https://m.facebook.com/NURSINGNIGERIA/posts/251204728335575

I've gone through it, and it seems to me you still don't get the point.
From that link, I did not see any request for improved quality of healthcare, whether in terms of request for more human resources or equipment to better position the nurses, pharmacists or what have you in the efficient discharge of their duties.
What I saw is an agitation for double promotion (skipping a level or sth) etc.

This is in no way similar to what NARD is asking for. Increased funding of residency training means making the nigerian teaching hospitals perfectly conducive for the standard training of doctors and better patient care. That is, telling FG to give the teaching hospitals the facilities they lack.

We complain that politicians and wealthy nigerians travel abroad for the slightest treatment. I think it's because they know nigerian teaching hospitals lag behind in terms of diagnostic and therapeutic facilities. Likewise, many doctors, nurses, pharmacists etc leave the shores of this country to practice in a 'saner' environment in the developed world. Do you think they just wanted to leave for no reason? A major reason why many do so is in order to have better job satisfaction. Job satisfaction is not just a function of how much you earn, but the ability to do your job efficiently and get results within the shortest possible time. I tell you, the nigerian system can be very frustrating.

Again, I think the NARD is on the right path. If they wanted increased wages, they will say like they have done in the past. This is not a request for more wages but a request for sanity.

Thanks. I'll be right back with comments on your other links.

on a good day:


in the health sector, who receives as much salary as you do..yet you wont allw other professions agitate...you want more...you strike. because you know the helpless patient will suffer...God will judge you all who champion and support strike at every slightest provocation...if police goes on strike...wont u suffer,but they dont because they undstnd the importance of their job...the question is do you?

jmichael:


Young man, I get point. It is well articulated. Bt ma grouse wit d strike action is dat docs r takin it personal, as if in d hospitals dey r d ones dat do all d works. Nw ua goin on strike coz of lack of equipments(if at all), forgettin dat dis same lack of equipment, among oda tins also affect oda health care practitioners. It wld av made sense if d headline read: healthcare practitioners (docs , pharms,nurses and labs) embark on strike due to lack of equipment among oda tins. Make ur struggle a comprehensive and less political one. Little wonda y most pple r interpreting dis as greed, selfishness, arrogance etc of d docs (I am even tempted to join dem).

speckless:
Its obvious this young man is one of the support staff in the hospital who blindly disagree with any agitation by the progressives to move the health system/hospital forward. All patients come to the hospital to see the doctor, all hand must therefore be on deck to make this a comfortable experience for both parties.
Nice post nas00.
Kudos NARD!

nas 00: Here is someone's online reaction to the NARD strike:

"There are many departments of government where funding is inadequate.
Why should the doctors take exception? Police, sports, the ministries and
parastatals are all underfunded. The doctors are arrogant and insensitive. Moreover doctors should be banned by legislation from going on strike. When they
resume their strike will they resurrect those who might have died because of
their action?"

Well, I'd say that is a layman's viewpoint. Cos if we consider this issue critically, the doctors are not only struggling for themselves, but for the average common man.
For instance, many teaching hospitals are without basic equipment needed to train residents (and manage patients). You see situations when patients have to travel from Port-Harcourt to LUTH just to have an MRI done, or patients asked to take a blood sample from UCH to pathcare (an NGO) in lagos, simply due to lack of hospital facility to provide these services.

If a UCH patient dies before the result of his blood test returns from lagos, who will resurrect him? OR if the patient traveling from PH to Lagos dies on the way (either due to illness or accident), who will resurrect him/ her?

Are these deaths any doctor's fault?

In my opinion, these are the things NARD is asking for. Better funding of the training programme will translate to:
1. More facility 'n equipment for training in teaching hospitals. Particularly machines used to further investigate patients' condition, which guuides the doctor in better treating the patients.

2. More hands, which will significantly reduce the number of hours patients spend on clinic visits, waiting to see the doctor.

These, I believe, are the things NARD is asking the FG for, which is very much in order.

Who buys my ideas?

on a good day:


my problem with doctors is that they very greedy and insensitive...now they want pple to supprport them for better training,despite the ones they have already,

on a good day:


my problem with doctors is that they very greedy and insensitive...now they want pple to supprport them for better training,despite the ones they have already,