The President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria,
Olumide Akintayo, has said that the Nigerian
Medical Association (NMA) has come up with a
“24 Commandment” which the government must
obey before the ongoing strike can be called off,
calling it a tragedy.
He stated that part of the NMA’s issues was that
the federal government should create the office of
the Surgeon-General of the federation, when there
is no enabling act that backs such an office.
Speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s
Saturday breakfast programme, Sunrise, Mr.
Akintayo explained that for there to be an office of
a Surgeon General, there is need for an act of
parliament before a president can put up such
office or from the constitution.
“This is happening because there is a carryover of
the military mentality when NMA had godfathers
who are friends with military officers so they
utilize these contacts, when government under the
military came out with obnoxious laws which is
the fundamental problem in the health care sector
today.
“The NMA says its members will not come to
work until a National Health Bill is passed which
has been done by the Senate and House of
Reps”.He further noted that if the NMA has
respect for the president of the country and
consumers of health such conditions would not
have been given. He further noted that if the NMA
has respect for the president of the country and
consumers of health such conditions would not
have been given.
He further spoke on the residency training……..we
will start from here…excerpts

Olumide ; So rather than concentrating on
providing resources for the training of this
medical student, they divert it, they are enjoying
the bouty,so that was why i said it is all about the
grab grab grab syndrome of resources and
privileges in the healthcare sector and you know
for so long we have watched this madness, i am
sorry, you permit me the use of words, we have
allowed them this unfortunate statues quo for far
too long, but now as responsible citizens and
representatives of our people, we are going to put
a final stop to the menaces of Nigerian doctors…..
Channels…let’s take up on a couple of things,
let’s start with acknowledging the facts that the
large number of people that work in most
establishment in Nigeria where they are not fully
functional but they get paid for being an assistant
to an assistant to an assistant, all of this things
happens, it is across board in Nigeria,our
government is bloated, our health sector is
bloated, but it is known as well that all around the
world, that consultants are people with great
value, you would admit that won’t you?
Olumide …hmm(nods in agreement)

Channels;(continues) …that those medical
consultants are people with a level of expertise
and experience that would add value to the health
sector, so you cannot discount the fact that we a
have quite a few medical consultants in Nigeria…
Olumide ; let me say this, in all of the time, you
know the NMA propagandist machine is always
alive and well…interrupted…no no let me just
make the point…

Channels; but..but… i am talking from traveling
around the world…..anywhere you find a
consultant you know the quality he has…

Olumide; fine.. it is good that you have travelled
around…let me say this.. you travelled, I am
happy you gave the information that you have
travelled around the world, in other climes that
you have visited, do you have a bloated figure,
this type of bloated figure, what.., i belong to the…
i don’t want to mention names now because I
need to protect certain interest… I belong to one
of the boards I talked about, I know what goes
on…in this city of Lagos alone, we have over 200
honourary consultants from various colleges of
medicine through two major teaching hospitals,
one LASU for the state government, and there is
one for the federal, there is specialist orthopedic
hospital, a psychiatric hospital and there is
federal medical center, five institutions, you have
two thousand consultants. Look, let’s be realistic,
what are you doing with 2000 consultants. In this
other climes that you talked about, what happens
is that you will have consultant orthopedic
surgeon who consults for that same enclave for
those five health institutions, so if he is supposed
to be in LUTH today,he probably puts in four
hours on Mondays, the same consultant is in
LASUTH on a Wednesday, he puts in some hours
and he get well paid, that is the way they run this
services, that is why it is consultant services. I
agree that is also about training and that is why
you have these people in the hospital, some bold
CMDs will tell you, (and I am saying from
privileged.. from view point of vantage privileged
information), that this thing is just about sharing
bounties, because you do not need two thousand
honorary consultant and hospital based
consultants to render services in one city….

Channels; ..why honorary..

Olumide ; It is honorary because one you are a
university lecturer, that is the designation they
came up with, the man is a lecturer in the
university but he is consulting for the teaching
hospital, because it is a teaching and you must
teach students. But I am saying, you do not have
to bring all of these people, because these are the
real reasons why health sector has been in a
perpetual coma, because all the resources that
should have been channeled to replacing obsolete
hospital equipment…go to all the hospital, the last
time we had comprehensive infrastructure was in
golden era when health administrators where in
charge of these health infrastructure..
Channels; Mr. Akintayo, let me just ask these
question and I will ask the same question all
around. Do you think we have enough funds in the
medical sector today, because it is one thing to
say that most of the money goes to consultants
and those who are grabbing, at the end of the day,
do you think there is enough money budgeted for
our health sector in Nigeria today

Olumide ; do you want me to answer…

Channels; it is a quick question, quick answer, I
don’t want an analysis..

Olumide ; it might be enough, but the critical
question is this, please ask questions to what has
been done with little( the interviewers chorused
“with little” with him) that has been provided, look
we carried out a study and I am speaking from
evidenced based data, we have a research
department and we carried out a research in
Nigeria, we said, yes, the WHO recommends 13%
minimum health budget, Nigeria is a signatory to
that, so this year I think the health sector was
allocated 6 or 7%, but we carried out that survey
and we discovered that a whopping 92% of the
total budget for the health care is actually
dedicated to the payment of emolument

All; Jesuss!!!….

Olumide; (continues)…out of this, and that is why I
am presenting these things, out of this in
apocalyptic terms, in absolute terms, 60%
because 59.88% of this total budget is dedicated
to payment of only one cadre of personnel…
medical doctors, at least at the federal level, now
is this the trend that you want to continue, you
that is why in …in the part of the world where I
come from, it is said that even when you give a
mad man a hole to come up with a heap,
naturally he heaps it towards his side, that is why
I portrayed that situational analysis so that you
see what goes on, so what goes on is that people
our definitely out there to maintain only narrow
and selfish interest, you know these doctors who
are protesting, let me give this information I say it
before my creator, immediately after youth
service, at the level of government, a medical
doctor is placed on grade level 12, these doctors
who are giving you, the members of the public the
impression they are oppressed o, grade level 12,
post youth service, do ask, I believe you are also
a university graduate, any other university
graduate who starts on grade level 8, after youth
service, it will take a minimum of 10 years for you
to get to grade level 12 which is where doctors
take off from youth service and yet they give
consumers of health and the people the
impression that they being marginalized,
marginalized by who?

At the end of the interesting interview…

Channels; alright, we have to rap up than you very
much for coming, we have been chatting with Mr.
Segun shotiloye, a physiotherapist and chairman
NUAHP at UCH Ibadan as well as Mr. Olumide
Akintayo, president Pharmaceutical society of
Nigeria and the social commentator Ugo Ugoke
thank you all very much for coming to share you
insights with us and as we said before the start of
this segment, Dr. Kayode Obembe who is the NMA
president had actually assured us that he will be
with us for this segment but had to cancel that at
last minute due to other commitments
Other people spoke as well, you see it here http://
www.channelstv.com/2014/07/05/
pharmaceutical-president-calls-doctors-
strike-24-commandment/


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92% of the total budget for the health care is actually dedicated to the payment of emolument All; Jesuss!!!….

choii!!!

Honestly, these guys are feeding on Niger Delta Oil

Yet we are always quick to shout Politicians, I personally checked a Professor/Medical Doctor's pay-check back then at school & I almost fainted on seeing N972,000. Official brand new suvs, drivers and protocols join oo...
As at then sha, na dat school pay Lecturers pass in the whole of the federation (oyel money )

Meanwhile, commisioners in some states earn less than N350,000 basic salary. Even some Profs (in EKSU, Ado-Ekiti for instance) earn less than N350,000.



Overall, na unemployed over crowded BScs, BAs, BTechs, BEngs graduates dey suffer am, common level g 4 sef no dey, and everybody is quiet