joker5180: CLARIFICATION

NMA- nigerian medical association
is a professional body of ALL medical doctors who are registered and licensed to practice in nigeria by medical and dental council of nigeria MDCN. It has branches in all the 36 states of the federation including FCT.

NMA Affiliates
these are groups of medical doctors with common interests, they are affiliated to NMA and can independantly embark on strike when the need arises.

1 MDCAN- medical and dental consultants association of nigeria, All consultants belong to this affiliate

2 NDA - nigerian dental association. ALL dentists belongs here
3 MWAN - medical women association of nigeria, ALL women doctors are members

4 NARD - national association of residents doctors, ALL doctors on residency trainning are here

5 NAGGMDP- national association of government general medical and dental practioners, ALL non-specialists doctors working with state and local governments
6 AGPMPN- association of general private medical practioners of nigeria, ALL non- specialist doctors in private practice

7 NADUHS- national association of doctors in university health services, ALL doctors working in university clinics.
Whenever you hear of doctors strike kindly ask questions to find out which group of doctors are on strike. As far as I am aware this is the 2nd time NMA NATIONAL is embarking on strike in the last 4years.

allycat: The general consensus I get from these threads is that the Nigerian public does not require the services of these idiots called Doctors. So why all the noise, take your sick to the pharmacist, physiotherapist , MLS and nurses, no one is stopping you. After all some years ago Borno state brought in Egyptian technologist who were acting as doctors. Yes people died but it's better than being treated by a lousy Nigerian doctor.In everything in life there is the law of demand and supply if people stop looking for doctors then we(cos I am one) will find our level. Shikena!

drgeorge1:


*POINT OF CORRECTION*
1. MDCAN: Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.

double0seven: To me all the ranting of the doctor about the confusion that will result from other health professionals being made doctors.

Now, seriously... we know that Medical Practice didn't start in Nigeria.

The question is this: in US, UK, Canada and other advanced countries, do other health professionals like Pharmacist, Nurses, Physiotherapist advance in their careers to become consultants? From all indications it seem that do.

So why should Nigeria be different because Nigerian doctors says.

Secondly because these other health professionals can advance to become consultants, does it mean that jus and dick & harry nurse, pharmacist etc can become a consultant?

I'm sure that's not the case. I'm sue there are stringent requirements for them to become consultants.

In solving this issue, I believe the government should just follow global best practices.

But for doctors to put up blanket no against other professionals becoming consultants seems wrong.

Hearme:

Foolish thought. Next time you want to travel out, place your stethoscope on your neck and fly the plain. When you want to eat food, plant your clinical coat and rice will grow. Talking as if all must study medicine. Who is more idiotic?

YourHealthlabs:

Nigerian B.mls have been evaluated to be of US standard. Nigerian scientists pass the NCA and ASCP exams with ease to work as MLScientists in U.S and Canadian labs.

Nigerian M.bbs is NOT an International standard. MD is d real deal.

U.S and U.K hospital DO NOT employ Nigerian docs instantly. They are made to write USMLE which is very highly competitive for non-US and non-Canadian trained docs and chances are very slim for these foreign-trained physicians in the U.S.

Stop misleading people.


We've settle this issue in my previous posts on a different thread.

Shakes85:
My guy MBBS is an international standard o abeg stop disgracing ur self.americans call theirs MD while other call it MBBS(medicine bachelor bachelor of surgery) in such country you get MD when u attain a phd degree in a medical course. Yes u have to write usmle before u practice as a foriegn dr in usa. Also any foreign dr has to write our foriegn medical exam here in nigeria before u practise here in nigeria.there is diversity in medicine in the tropics and in temprate region is not fully a textbook tin but practical based. Example in nigeria most people wit fever r likely to have malaria while abroad is more of a viral stuff. Also medicine in devolping nation like nigeria where u battle with issues of finance and avalabity of infrastrutre has to reflects in ur management so is even more difficult practicing here. Pls appreciate the effort of our doctors. Doctors has been a constant in this equation.

YourHealthlabs:

There is no need for long stories. Rush to google and type these words-'Is m.b.b.s an International standard for doctors?"

Come back with the results and enlighten us.

YourHealthlabs:

There is no need for long stories. Rush to google and type these words-'Is m.b.b.s an International standard for doctors?"

Come back with the results and enlighten us.

philtrum:

Sharap!! And gerrout

phantom: please stop making a fool of yourself.you have always appeared to be as one of the reasonable johesuites here.please do some reading and enlighten yourself

First, mbbs is at best a third-rate
qualification, and it's being
supplanted by MD, the
international standard.

Djtm:
Nobody hypes lawmakers. Is overhyped synonymous to overpaid? All I do is rant? Do you know me? Have we met before? I'm guessing you meant "all you've done is to rant". It's either you're just looking for cheap likes or you just need a few english lessons.

balladin:
Doc, is that all you can say? Keep blabbing.

timowale:

My response to an harmless question tells more of the kinda animal that I am. an angry d*g sorry animal!

YourHealthlabs:





culled from:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20131105072323AA1XKYs

Sabretooth1: is this the worst venom you can spit? Why not create alternate accounts to like your _stupid post too, like annoymous? Arrogant greedy ram!

phantom: brother you posting a link from yahoo answers? are you for real? yahoo answers where any retard can post answers? lol. what is the basic medical degree in the UK and in Australia?
the MD you love so much is the basic medical degree in the US. in the UK which we copy, its MBBS. the MD in the UK is an advanced degree in medicine. please read and understand.

YourHealthlabs:

Actually the implementation of FG-JOHESU agreement was 'put on hold' temporarily and NMA was ask to suspend strike action and maintain status quo while negotiations were initiated. Our 'demi gods' in NMA flouted the order.

Therefore you have no moral right to refer to a judgement you chose to disobey. NMA is a lawless bunch.

If we had good and enough medical litigation lawyers in Nigeria, many physicians will be in jail. They have never obeyed ANY COURT ORDER.

Nigerians 'small gods' say are greater than you and constitution.

drgeorge1:


*POINT OF CORRECTION*
1. MDCAN: Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.

nobilis:

Lack of proper information is what is killing people in Nigeria. NMA and JOHESU never had any issue before now. The court injunction u are talking about was d injunction given by d NIC on a case between JOHESU and MDCAN. That was why MDCAN opted out of the strike few days ago, in order to obey that court ruling.

I still repeat that JOHESU enjoys misinforming the public and the self-same public enjoy being fooled around because they are too lazy to do some basic research for themselves.

When lecturers were on strike last year, people never tried to understand their point of view. They were just castigating and pointing fingers. How do u expect them to continue negotiating and signing agreements with the FG when history has shown that the FG never honours any agreements. It is the same way with doctors.

It is not the job of d doctor to provide quality healthcare. It is the job of the government. That is what every one whould understand. If illiteracy and laziness will allow us, let us look at the healthcare systems of other countries and see how much the govt does to promote good health care systems.

Okay. Look at the fight against Boko haram. It has been reported severally that those terrorists have better arms than our own military. But has dat made the govt to increase funding for the army in order to better equip it? No, it hasn't.

ASUP lecturers have been on strike for how many months now. And what is d government doing about it?

Until we realise where our problems are coming from, we will keep going around in circles.

Djtm:
Exactly my point. I said doctors are overhyped in Nigeria, I didn't say doctors are overhyped. Any sick person needs a doctor not just in Nigeria but all over the world. So your "dont visit a doctor" point doesn't count.

YourHealthlabs:

If you do a little googling you'll find out that majority of the countries still offering m.b.bs are in asia and africa. It's now seen as a third world med.degree.
Though that doesn't take anything away from smart docz, it's an individual thing.

I only get pissed off when some docz make it seem like "UK and US are falling all over themselves to have Nigerian mbbs docz", nothing can be further from the truth.
Let's protect gullible people from swallowing those lies.

Good morning.

YourHealthlabs:



culled from:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20131105072323AA1XKYs

allycat: The general consensus I get from these threads is that the Nigerian public does not require the services of these idiots called Doctors. So why all the noise, take your sick to the pharmacist, physiotherapist , MLS and nurses, no one is stopping you. After all some years ago Borno state brought in Egyptian technologist who were acting as doctors. Yes people died but it's better than being treated by a lousy Nigerian doctor.In everything in life there is the law of demand and supply if people stop looking for doctors then we(cos I am one) will find our level. Shikena!

YourHealthlabs:

If you do a little googling you'll find out that majority of the countries still offering m.b.bs are in asia and africa. It's now seen as a third world med.degree.
Though that doesn't take anything away from smart docz, it's an individual thing.

I only get pissed off when some docz make it seem like "UK and US are falling all over themselves to have Nigerian mbbs docz", nothing can be further from the truth.
Let's protect gullible people from swallowing those lies.

Good morning.