Doctors’ sack is illegal – NMA.
Nigeria Medical Association has expressed its disappointment at the sack of resident doctors by the Federal Government.
The body on Friday directed its members not to collect any sack letter, saying the action is illegal because it did not follow status book.
It also directed its members to shun any local appointment with the government hospitals as directed by the circular.
The Federal Government had on Thursday issued a circular suspending residency training programmes for doctors.
The country is currently groaning under the dearth of specialist doctors with 3,000 specialists to over 170 million Nigerians. Besides, there are over 25,000 Nigerian doctors in the United States and over 4,000 in the United Kingdom.
The consequence of the government circular, according to a medical doctor with the National Hospital, Abuja, Ujam Kingsley,  is that in the next five-six years when the present ones passes out, there would be no specialist doctor in the country.
The training which comes up immediately after National Youth Service, Dr. Ujam said lasts between six to eight years and it is designed to develop specialist doctors in different fields of medicine.
Reacting to government’s order, NMA President, Dr. Kayode Obembe, noted that the current government’s stance will further worsen the present industrial harmony.
Obembe insisted that government action was illegal as it did not follow the books, saying “It is our believe that the status book that established the residency training programme has not been followed.
Residency Training programme is governed by status books.
“No single person or individual no matter how highly placed can just directly and wishfully jettison all these documents and go and sack our doctors. It is illegal and we condemn it in its entirety. That is our position on that,” the NMA president said.

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Moves by the Nigerian Medical Association
( NMA ) and the National Association of
Resident Doctors ( NARD ) to pressurize the
federal government to withdraw the circular
suspending residency training programme have
fell on deaf ears as officials at the Federal
Ministry of Health were adamant on reversing
the suspension.
The suspension of the residency training
programme indirectly means the sack of about
16 000 medical doctors, leaving behind 3000
medical consultants and higher ranking
medical personnel to cater for medical services
around the country.
The government also lampooned the medical
doctors for embarking on protest and
demonstration in Abuja, calling their actions as
hypocritical.
Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of
Health, Linus Awute, stated this Saturday in
an interview with journalists in Abuja.
Awute observed that though the doctors
claimed to be on strike, some were working
on the field.
He blamed the doctors for the decision by the
federal government to suspend residency
training for the medical practitioners, including
the directive to the managements of public
hospitals to find replacement for them.
http://www.newsday.com.ng/government-
vows-recall-sacked-doctors/

Photos: Doctors, students,
protest mass sack of resident
doctors
Medical doctors, students, consultants
converged at the Lagos University Teaching
hospital, (LUTH), Idi Araba, today to protest
the recent sack of 16,000 resident doctors by
the Federal Government. The protest was led
by the Chairman of the Nigerian Medical
Association, NMA, Dr. Tope Ojo.
The doctors said their strike was never about
an increase in their salary, that all they were
fighting for was for better structures and
equipment in hospitals across the country.
See more photos after the cut
Photo credit - Sahara Reporters

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