prettyprettywow: He also said " “Occasionally, the non-medical professionals are referred to as paramedics or allied medical workers or allied health professionals. That’s basically the structure; that’s how the hospital operates."

But according to online sources on paramedics "The paramedic is a healthcare professional who works in emergency medical situations. A paramedic may be more formally defined as a medical professional who provides medical care to sustain life in the pre-hospital environment, usually in an emergency, at the point of illness or injury" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramedic
So how come pharmacists, nurses, lab scientists, physiotherapists are paramedics?
Or are Nigerian Drs having problems understanding the English language? According to your link, it says "Allied health professions are health care professions distinct from nursing, medicine, and pharmacy", so how come nursing and pharmacy are classified as allied health professionals by Nigerian Drs?

Again obembe said, "“The structure of the health sector can simply be illustrated as having doctors and non-doctors; or you can say medical and non-medical workers. You can also refer to the non-medical personnel as allied health workers."

We can as well categorize health sector workers as Nurses and non-nurses, or Pharmacists and non-pharmacists, or Drs and non-Drs etc

sogodihno: I av to disagree on one point sir: Medical is not restricted to doctors, because if it's restricted to doctors, den d word "medical doctor" will b tautology. Tanks

heykims:
No, u got it wrong, d word 'medical' here is an adjective to differentiate MBBS holders from PhD holders.

omicron: So JOHESU is already warming up for a strike of their own? No comment, till then.

The Federal government got itself into this 'chaos', when it kept playing politics with the healthcare sector instead of equipping the hospitals to make them world-class and curbing the alarming rate of medical quackery, which has dragged the medical practice in Nigeria to where it is now, at the detriment of the common man.

Doctors will be ever-ready for any thing the government will do in order to save the health sector from all who now see the hospital as students' politics arena.

...doctors will ''always protect the traditions of the Medical Profession by ALL MEANS...'' as stated in the Oath, and in the best Interest of our sole reason for their existence - The Patient.

musaak: it is used that way to distinguish doctors that that treat medical ailment from other doctors such as academic doctors in the university with phd degree.

jideolubiyi: Miffed by recurring industrial actions in the health sector, the Federal Government may be considering the options of either proscribing the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) or privatizing all public health institutions.

A senior government official, Wednesday, in Abuja told The Nigerian Times that President Goodluck Jonathan is presently being advised on what to do in the situation, as the Federal Government is caught in the middle of the inter-union rivalry between the NMA and JOHESU that leaves many Nigerians without health care as often as they go on strike.

The NMA embarked on an indefinite strike action since July 1st, demanding among 24 things the payment of N13 billion wage demands for 2014, reserving the position of Chief Medical director to only medical doctors, appointment of Surgeon General of the Federation, passage of National Health Bill, providing security for doctors, increase in duty hazard and specialist allowances, as well as budget for residency training programme, reintegration of its members into the IPPIS platform, and reserving the title of consultants to only medical doctors.

The government officer revealed to The Nigerian Times that while government is negotiating with the medical doctors to return to work immediately and agreeing on many of the terms, JOHESU has written to the Ministry of Health of its plan to embark on another strike action in the event that government concedes to the demands of the doctors.

He said: “We cannot continue like this. NMA today, JOHESU tomorrow, and it has become a cat and mouse game. No responsible government will allow its employees hold it to ransom especially in a peculiar case like this..................

500GP: ASSU - NO WORK, NO PAY

NMA - NO WORK,, NO PAY.

FG SHOULD GIVE THEM THEIR DEMANDS. LABOURER DESERVES HIS WAGES.


#FOOLISH PRESIDENT EVER RULETH - GEJ

wordcat:

The foolish one here is you. Did you read their demands at all?
Do you the implication of granting that their useless demands?

wordcat:

The foolish one here is you. Did you read their demands at all?
Do you the implication of granting that their useless demands?

500GP:

SHUT UP.

DURING ASSU STRIKE, THE USELESS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT UTTERED THAT NO WORK, NO PAY.

THE SAME STATEMENT IS UTTERED AGAIN.

THEIR DEMAND IS MEANINGFUL, GOVERNMENT SHOULD GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT.

wordcat:

KEEP TALKING.

and your little sense didn't tell you that JOHESU will also go on strike demanding the opposite of what your govt granted to d NMA

sogodihno: I av to disagree on one point sir: Medical is not restricted to doctors, because if it's restricted to doctors, den d word "medical doctor" will b tautology. Tanks

dozzybaba:

Please desist from paying the unlettered guy any heed. He is easily gives himself away as the most unintelligent poster on this forum.
He is known as 5.0 I.Q in the pol section and jerks off anytime intelligent people quote him.

Pls quote him no more before he dies of exhaustion from...

prettyprettywow: Na wa o. Imagine Obembe "we have medical and non-medical workers. Medical workers are Drs while non-medical are allied health workers" If the word "medical refers to Drs alone, I wonder why we have "medical"lab scientists, Medical rehab, medical image scientists.

wordcat:

KEEP TALKING.

and your little sense didn't tell you that JOHESU will also go on strike demanding the opposite of what your govt granted to d NMA

Samgreguc:
stop decieving urself. The world medical aint restricted to Physicians alone.
.
I think you should google the history of Physicians.

phantom: then they should also get ready to proscribe NBA and NSE..... bunchajokers

sogodihno: I av to disagree on one point sir: Medical is not restricted to doctors, because if it's restricted to doctors, den d word "medical doctor" will b tautology. Tanks

prettyprettywow: Na wa o. Imagine Obembe "we have medical and non-medical workers. Medical workers are Drs while non-medical are allied health workers" If the word "medical refers to Drs alone, I wonder why we have "medical"lab scientists, Medical rehab, medical image scientists.

prettyprettywow: He also said " “Occasionally, the non-medical professionals are referred to as paramedics or allied medical workers or allied health professionals. That’s basically the structure; that’s how the hospital operates."

But according to online sources on paramedics "The paramedic is a healthcare professional who works in emergency medical situations. A paramedic may be more formally defined as a medical professional who provides medical care to sustain life in the pre-hospital environment, usually in an emergency, at the point of illness or injury" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramedic
So how come pharmacists, nurses, lab scientists, physiotherapists are paramedics?
Or are Nigerian Drs having problems understanding the English language? According to your link, it says "Allied health professions are health care professions distinct from nursing, medicine, and pharmacy", so how come nursing and pharmacy are classified as allied health professionals by Nigerian Drs?

Again obembe said, "“The structure of the health sector can simply be illustrated as having doctors and non-doctors; or you can say medical and non-medical workers. You can also refer to the non-medical personnel as allied health workers."

We can as well categorize health sector workers as Nurses and non-nurses, or Pharmacists and non-pharmacists, or Drs and non-Drs etc