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/

a fight that will never finish

some fools that hate drs will start commenting below me nw..just watch

clueless people

Hmmm,two elephants fight!

The doctors acted stupidly

That's very serious.

story!!! jonathan has played his trump card. unintelligent man! akin to a carpenter who has only a hammer in his tool box and as such sees a nail in every problem. when he sobers up,he knows where to find the doctors........


....and by the way,i hope he has also gotten locum consultants from cuba to resume on monday??

bunchajokers!

barcanista: The doctors acted stupidly

Very stupidly the doctors acted. They are just plain greedy and high on selfishness weed.

And the masses suffer.....

[size=18pt]GUYS VOTE GEJ OUT 2015! THIS MAN IS DESTROYING THE NATION! [/size]

Aish!
Wish am a doctor,i would have applied to be taken....

Useless bunch of doctors on strike,when the nation needed them most.....They should all GO TO HELL!

Thank God
I just got a schengen VISA

if una want
make una kill una sef for naija

One of them will shift grounds eventually. Let's see who blinks 1st...Meanwhile, consult your nearest 'chemist'.

Really?

Why all this rubbish when all hands are supposed to be on deck helping to curb the spread of Ebola in Nigeria..ehn

Great.

Medical profession should be more of saving lives and not more of making money

Hope this crisis would be resolved soon.

suwailad: [size=18pt]GUYS VOTE GEJ OUT 2015! THIS MAN IS DESTROYING THE NATION! [/size]

vote him out and vote who in my darling? Your elder brother? No!
Goodluck go finish his second tenure,if u no like am,na u sabi!

Meanwhile people are dying because of this.

If this doctors start carrying arms and blowing up hospitals , this goverment will not only grant them amnesty but also sponsor them to the best teaching hospital in the world.

The doctors won't lose that much, all they need is open private hospitals or travel and be doctors in other countries.

suwailad: [size=18pt]GUYS VOTE GEJ OUT 2015! THIS MAN IS DESTROYING THE NATION! [/size]

And vote who in? The man that presided over your father? Jonathan is the best option for now cos all the other candidates are tested and trusted crooks. He is doing his best despite the challenges he is facing. Change is a gradual process, we would get there.

this is the type of news that make me wish i wasnt a Nigerian. how can they be toying with peoples lives? how can u sack 16,000 resident doctors? will the F.G do their job in the hospitals? pls 2015 shld come and go, everything in nigeria nw is done because of 2015 election.

#Every Issue Is Politicised

phantom: story!!! jonathan has played his trump card. unintelligent man! akin to a carpenter who has only a hammer in his tool box and as such sees a nail in every problem. when he sobers up, he knows where to find the doctors........

bunchajokers!

Find who? I hope you don't mean for treatment cos if Jona sneezes, it'll be on his jet on the way to a hospital in germany.

They shd be sacked. Wen dem no sack dem, wetin dem dey do?Abeegi... This Is d time d country needs dem most. Wah happened to d Oath they took for a critical time like dis? What if our millitary embarked on strike during dis Boko haram security issue? Would dia be any doctor alive to go on a stupid strike? Shioooor

rattlesnake: Thank God
I just got a schenden VISA

if una want
make una kill una sef for naija

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Oh.....you mean schenden in tanzania? Its too sunny there.....

God help

issokay... hope that is the best option

Uncompromising men are easy to admire but it is the ability to compromise that makes a man noble - 16th Century ailing King of Scotland

Am not sure dis doctors no wat D̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ are doin....let dem get bck 2 work 1st.......crazy D̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ dere deir head...until we start burnin down dere private hospitals abi.....me support uncle jona on dis

*Fingers crossed*