These people and their conmess rubbish. Why is it so hard to understand that Lagos state is not under any obligation to dance to follow any silly nonsense put together by some national union and who to hire or fire.

If you don't like what Lagos if offering, go to ekiti or any federal hospital of your choice, it's not like Lagos is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to stay in Lagos. What's next, garbage people forming their own national group and start demanding what ever they want? Is ordering your employer around the new thing?

They keep going on and on about some silly conmess as if it's some order from heaven.

I dont see your anger changing anything.It's not that significant in the general scheme of things.
I wish the government pays soon and save people who use these hospitals the headache.We all know the government can care less as they go abroad to ''treat headaches'' anyway.

What anger are you talking about. The only way to save lives is to go look for your preferred employer who's willing to pay you what you want and let the people of Lagos state move on. It's not by force to work for Lagos state .

reindeer, Nice to see you defending our profession once more. But I actually agree with Eko Ile, if we don't like the job quit. I hate seeing us grovel and beg as if we are casual labourers with no skills. I have said it over ands over again that the only way forward in medicine is private practice. All the hospitals we run to in India and South Africa are private. In the UK and America the best hospitals are private institutions. Where you see Nigerians go as a patient to a government institution abroad it is because they cannot afford to go private. To all those that say the poor will suffer if most doctors go private I say pele, sorry whatever. Are they not suffering worse now. There are doctors and nurses are in gov hospitals now but the services they get are not up to what the average dog gets from his vet in the UK. What government should do is properly regulate the system such that there are basic minimum standards.
And by the way I am a consultant with over 20 years post MBBs and on conmess my salary pretaxation will not be more than 550K that is b4 Fasholas deductions. I was not given a car, I was never offered accomodation by the government. The only Doctors that may earn up to 800k on CONMESS will be those on GL17 equivalent to Director Generals of minitries.

tis an unguided statement from a supposed elder state-man

@Allycat
Thanks for the clarification on CONMESS because some people have really been misinformed by the politicians they worship.
Its okay to leave, i left, but for how long will that have to continue with this exploding population in the country?Something has to be done to attract and retain the best brains.I know good wages are the way to start that.
Now about standards, it is difficult expecting that when people are paid peanuts.One of the reasons people will give the kind of service they render here in the UK is because nobody wants to lose a stream of income this good.If you pay people that good then you can demand standards, the mere fact that they may lose a job paying 500k per month will make people sit up.''to whom much is given, much is expected'' let the government start with the giving part and then come down hard on poor care.I will even say they should make the doctors and nurses sign a contract that allows for them to be sacked when their practice is below par and make that a condition for paying these salaries.
Afterwards they can change the mode of recruitment from the civil service type right now to renewable contracts based on performance and the duration can be set, these will make the tedious job rewarding and at the same time ensure compliance with laid down rules and improve patient care.
Talking about private practice, i know how hard it is cos i knew people who tried and became ''humanitarian'' once patients start to beg them and these doctors ended up in big losses.The earning power of the masses have to be really good before private practice will be attractive to doctors.except you have a few humdred millions to start something big and charge really big at the same time.
When all is said and done,everyone is a victim except the politicians. The doctors in training lose valuable learning time(which i know the colleges don't care about), the patients lose good health care and the government ends up losing money because they wil still pay for all these periods people didnt work.The politicians however can travel anywhere they want on government bill and get treated alongside their relatives.
It is time to develop a good health system to be proud of, afterall, this same system produced most of us doing well in europe and the Americas.
Let this wasting of innocent lives stop,the governmet should please pay and close this chapter.

Is Tinubu running for President or Governor
This man is throwing his weight around too much

@allycat, @ reindeer I agree with both of u, Im a nigerian dr presently on CALL in a small island nation as i type this msg. I resign from lagos state job few years back due to d stress of the work and poor remuneration. Here both the citizens and the expatriate are on renewable contracts there is nothing like permanent employment till u retire, there is a standard expect of u to be met before renewal.

Here they take every death very seriously the drs and nurses involve in management will give an account of what happened, as a junior dr u MUST inform your consultant on call about a critical case and he MUST review the patient PHYSICALLY nt by phone msg.

We hardly loose patent here sometimes none for several months, the yearly mortality rate is about month mortality where i work in nigeria before and most time nobody cares about the course of death as we dont routinely do autopsy. D governement needs to pay health workers well and monitor the standard of care being given by the workers, then most pple will sit up. TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS EXPECTED.

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See how the shameless "Progressives" tried to justify this wickedness and stuupidity.

Tomorrow another clueless ignorant imbeciile will come out and call fashola "The best governor in Nigeria's history".
Dunces drunk on their own propaganda and lies.

Ok

You won't see seunmsg in this sort of thread

Seun the supporter of tulubu oya come and defend your master

The ugly drug dealing vagabond has always been an insensitive and wicked old man. Imagine Tinubu asking Fashola to sack doctors just because they asked for better salary

How wicked can this man be, just one bullion van of stolen cash is enough to settle them but no, he would rather give the cash to his children to buy condos worth 2 million dollars in America.

E no go better for anyone still supporting this Bat.

Lol is this not the same thing they accused Peter obi of?

Even peter obi was more civilized in his dealings with his people than this vagabond of a presidential candidate. Peter obi offered the doctors 60 percent pay rise but the doctors declined claiming they deserved 80-90%. Peter obi had to leave them to their own fate.

Nobody tell them make they resume work.

Seunmsg ur attention is needed here sir

Wow. See the callous way he asked for doctors to be sacked even though he was not even the governor himself.

Imagine what he will do if he becomes president?!

God please help us avoid this tragedy!

This is very wicked of Tinubu

The man Tinubu is highly selfcentred ,accepting his advice is dangerous.

thread should grace front page too