When Pharm. Olumide Akintayo, the president of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria a renowned JOHESU Warlord recently alleged that Nigerian Doctors are trying to force the Hippocratic order of Medicine on other paramedical professionals in Nigeria when they insist that Doctors must continue to lead the medical team. First, as an activist, it made some sense to me, but on second thought, my mind went to World Health Organization (WHO) the United Nations Human Right Arm of Health.
This took me to the year precisely April, 1948 when the man George Brock Chisholm from Canada became the first Director General (DG) of WHO winning with a vote of 46-2. This great man was initially a soldier with Canadian Expeditionary Force, who out of his passion for medicine and because medicine is not hereditary, struggled to earn for himself Doctor of Medicine (MD) from the University of Toronto, he was a renowned Medical Doctor with psychiatry bias. He led WHO till 1953.
To fill the vacancy created by Brock Chisholm’s exit, another manMarcolino Gomes Candau a Brazilian, was elected to head WHO for the next twenty years. He was a medical doctor that graduated from the state of Rio de Janeiro, University of Brazil and Johns Hopkins University.
When Gomes Candau left in 1973, another man a Danish Medical Doctor Halfan Mahler was made the DG of WHO. He was to give us the historic Alma-Ata Declaration, and led the organization for the next fifteen years.
After the exit of Mahler in 1988, there came another medical doctor from Japan by name Hiroshi Nakajima who graduated from medicine at the Tokyo Medical University . it is of importance to note that when Hiroshi was employed in 1994 at WHO, he was the scientist in charge of Drug Evaluation and monitoring which led to his being made in 1976, the Head of WHO Drug Policies and Management where he pioneered the concept of today’s essential drugs.
In Nigeria today, if a doctor who by training been endowed to be versatile in drugs and therapeutics is made the head of such parastatal, JOHESU will call for earthquake, it has become a crime in Nigeria for a doctor to oversee the council that formulates the training of nurses or even hospital cleaners.So sad!!
After Hiroshi’s exit in 1998 came another Medical Colossus, the Norwegian Iron lady Gro Harlem Brundtland who headed WHO from 1998 to 2003. Brundtland’s first choice of carrier was neither to be an Environmentalist or Politician, but to be a doctor like her father. She was a Specialist in Rehabilitation Medicine and is good to note that this lady served three terms as Norways Prime Minister.
In 2003, another new head was appointed to lead WHO, the great Dr Lee Gong-Wook. Lee was the first Korean to lead an international agency. A medical doctor who also obtained a medical degree at Seoul National University. Lee tenure was rudely cut short by his untimely death in 2006.
Following the sudden death of Dr Lee, another acting head was appointed to lead WHO from May 2006 to January 2007 by name Anders Nordstrom. Also Anders was a medical graduate of karolinska Institut Sweden, who prior his DG appointment was WHO’s Assistant DG and has a background that combines development experience in the field, National and International Health Policy and Planning, and Strategic leadership.After this short interregnum of Lee’s death , a substantive DG, Dr Margaret Chan was appointed and she resumed duties in January, 2007. Dr Chan who is the current WHO, was previously trained as a Home Economist, but for her love and passion for medicine, had to go to the University of Western Ontario for her medical circumcision where she qualified as a medical doctor in 1977 after which she joined the Hong Kong government in 1978 as a Medical Officer.
So why the noise about the imperialistic nature of Nigerian Medical Association? Why is it that the black Africans only way of reaching the outer space is by witchcraft? What is wrong in our continent in doing the needful in encouraging our scientist to first gain the expertise that will aid us build a spacecraft? How can our noble brothers and amiable sisters who are Pharmacists and Nurses choose to form gangsterish association with hospital cleaners, laborers, porters and security men whose sole aim is to find a way of bringing down the laboring Hippocratic order of medicine in this amorphous assembly of JOHESU (Joint Health Sector Union) or simply put “Joe Hates U”?While one cannot be blind to the corruption being seen among the various heads of our health institutions where some Medical Directors have become even more administratively horrible and financially corrupt like the mere rogues that abound in our political landscape, that will never be allowed for the excuse to water down the hierarchical order of the noble medical profession.
Like in any other profession of the world, there are men who have administrative and academic excellence as their watch word, such doctors should be given leadership positions instead of the government trying to turn the revered medical profession into a banana republic where porters want to be called medical consultants in “medical porterring” thereby confusing our already disoriented patients.
Let’s be proud of who we are in this nation as professionals and strive to be who we we want to be through the legally available means.
If WHO can as a standard United Nations Health Organization have a respected order of who becomes who, why is our health ministry getting confused on how to maintain order in the health sector.
Even if wishes were horses, Catholic Catechists can never be called Archbishops!! Ka Chineke Mezie Okwu!!!!
Dr Korie

Another medical doctors (or medical murderers) weeping thread!

The issue is......JOHESU as a body shouldn't even be talking of fighting for any reason.
Let each union come forward and press for their needs. The needs of a Pharmacists can't be the same with that of a Radiographer or they are saying that they will come out later after this fight to start making another request again

smartchoice: Another medical doctors (or medical murderers) weeping thread!

You defied the intelligence your username should have conferred on you by the sarcasm and profligacy expressed above.

smartchoice: Another medical doctors (or medical murderers) weeping thread!

so serious

Historic Amnesia ok oh..

Errrmmhhh... ...there"s just one thing that is CLEAR: GREED!!!

Why we no see all these health experts in conflict due to the Chibok Girls saga since they know the health implications on them better than the rest of us

*Well, I'm taking notes*

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What the poo is all this??

U should have been unsmart choice or unintelligent choice. If this is all you can say to the beautiful article, then you are finished!

k

Was this crap moved to frontpage twice?.. Hmm lemme say the op moved it himself because no resonable human will make this poo visible. Nah nah nah

you too?

so should I comment?

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When a patient leaves his residence to visit the hospital who does he have in mind meeting there?

smartchoice: Another medical doctors (or medical murderers) weeping thread!

It's either the likes of you are the ones propagating the falsehoods in the health sector or you are a 'Joe hates us-ite'. Anyway, you can't stop the truth fěom coming out, no matter how many times you say the quoted!

infolekan: The issue is......JOHESU as a body shouldn't even be talking of fighting for any reason.
Let each union come forward and press for their needs. The needs of a Pharmacists can't be the same with that of a Radiographer or they are saying that they will come out later after this fight to start making another request again

That's one of the reasons NMA aptly used the phrase "palpably imminent anarchy" in the health sector, cos ones the reasons for their agitations are granted, each constituent of the amorphous body will now start seeking their own interests.

tony4life58: [font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font][color=#006600][/color]
When a patient leaves his residence to visit the hospital who does he have in mind meeting there?

mr death, i guess!

smartchoice: Another medical doctors (or medical murderers) weeping thread!

Dude, are u a retard or what?

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All this pharmacy nurse thing is thrash if you wanted to be a doctor or leader of the health team then you should have studied medicine, soon bricklayers would be telling architectures what to do, people should learn their place and love their jobs simple!

This johesu are having selective amnesia head by a yorober man

There re many pharmacists, nurses , medical lab scientists some I know personally dt go back to school after their first degree to pursue a degree in Medicine and Surgery, I even know of a 40year old pharmacist presently in 500L medicine. So any JOHESUite dt has d ambition of leading d medical team sud follow suit, SIMPLE!!!
One thing for sure dt I know is dt JOHESU can NEVER win ds battle even if they go beyond recruiting cleaners, messengers, portals, cashier nd start incorporating d bodies in d morgues in their deceitful union ...

Pharmacy, nursing and other medical sciences are still branches in medicine and i think doctors study all these and can do the work of both pharmacist and nurses and even laboratory scientists but just that it will be too tedious for doctors combining all. The pharmacists never fought for their rights for a long period giving doctors more edge. They were laid back. 5 yrs in school just to be a dispenser or marketer or sales person. What the chemists can do. Only few are production pharmacists with drug composition experience. I think it was just once a pharmacist became the minister of health in Nigeria, it has been doctors all the way.. they never spoke out aggresively all the while, so why now. All these hatred and back stabbing in our medical line is not good for the nation. its taking our healthcare system backward. Anyways i see no reason why doctors shouldn't be the head. 7 years na wash? Oga na master!

If johesu think that they shud be called consultants and earn as much as doctors, then they should do d work of doctors and not complain about the strike. Since a bricklayer wan show say him sabi by architect, let him carry on and let's see how far he goes

It's only in Nigeria that a nurse who only knows how to change catheter and read out prescriptions would want to be a consultant or CMD. The hospital is called a hospital because you can see a doctor, the doctors job gives credence to every other profession in the health sector. If there were no doctors, this johesu would starve. It's high time doctors doctors start doing residency in all this sectors of medicine.
This people keep on making it look like we are the ones that schemed them out of medicine. When I was in medical school, there was this particular matron that hated med students so much that she practically asks us to leave the ward when we come there to do extra-murral clinical rounds. Imagine that with such hatred, can such a devil relate well with her medical officer or worst still the patient. Privatise the hospitals and see this doctor wanna-bes knowing their rightful place in the hospitals.

The major issue is that other health professionals now wants to be called "Consultants" and be given all the benefits that a trained Consultant Medical Doctor get, including appointments reserved for such title.

The question now is, How long do you serve drinks as a Flight Attendant before you start calling yourself a Pilot? Never.

If you want to be a Medical Doctor, please go and read Medicine and stop endangering our Health Sector over your failure for not reading medicine (maybe because you did not make the JAMB score).

I won't waste a drop of sweat on this issue again

Ignorance, unarguably is the greatest disease.

seems nairaland is biased, only anti-johesu news seem to make front page

So because docs are meant to save lives now...make dem dey practice silly medicine.....abeg, whether una like it or not....strike will never be supported..buh ask d govt for allowin it. meanwhile, I was oppurtuned to hear a story once, a doc was seeing patients in a clinic..., the doc den collapsed...apparently had health issues too...the next the d patients( not all) said was..."Shebi dis doc for see us answer us b4 he collapse"....so u see, na naija we dey...all man for himself...dont blame docs abeg

this case is a pure igimu jina sori