Most people who have commented on the recent sack of the resident doctors by President Jonathan do not understand how wrong he got it.

Firstly,the strike was not embarked upon by the Resident Doctors(governed under NARD) but by the Nigerian Medical Association which happens to be the parent body of all medical practitioners. The resident doctors in all Teaching Hospitals are the engine room of the hospital,the Consultants are merely supervisors. The president should have gone for the job of the consultants and M.O's who are the primarily the leaders of NMA,not the residents. To illustrate,its like ASUU being on strike and the president decides to sack only junior lecturers leaving the senior lecturers and profs that control ASUU.

Secondly,since residency program was the reason why Teaching hospitals were created,since the program has been suspended indefinitely it means that every Teaching Hospital should also be shut down indefinitely.

Thirdly,this indefinite suspension also included House officers! What he doesn't know is that house job is a compulsory one year program which every medical student MUST undertake before he or she graduates fully to become a medical doctor. By doing this,he has automatically suspended the graduation of all final year medical students nationwide!

But y did dey hv to b on strike wen d nation needed dem most