savanto:

Male doctors are even more professional than the females who are heading because they are wearing lab coats. Please don't let me discuss the student doctors as the though of it would bring tears to my sad face. Let them be. Virtue is its own reward.

KDULAR:

Majority of Docs and nurses especially the former are in for the Job not because of real love for the Job but because of money and the pride  ( at least they are better paid than most civil servants) and their entry point is out of this world ( Imagine ) at the present rate, It will take graduates of other degreees employed at the same time with these doctors 8 years! to get to their entry point . Even a lab scientist or pharmacist who spent just a year less than the number of years spent by d Doctors to get their degrees will have to spend 5 years on the Job before he can get to their own entry point Not to now talk of the the Bogus allowances and royalty accorded them in their emolment and condition of service. Thus making it lucrative.

Look at all the previous strikes by the doctors especially the younger ones and you 'll see that it is bacically 90 % about their pay rise and 10% better equipments for improved services.
When you see 2 young doctors talking about a new employment by either of the two,the first thing will be asked is ' how are you being payed and not how's  the Job and  thing that makes them look confident is actually how much they earn, the moment some one of other profession seem to look better than them,, they "loose it". This is the reason why they  fight only for themselves for increment of pay leaving out all other health workers who sin qua non they cannot function , Besides no doctor is thought how to manage an hospital in their training but what do you see, they are the head of all hospitals and health ministries and thus the sorry state of our health sector. I said ones that rather than increase pay adn emoluments fantastically even from intern level as being done now ,why not spread on more heads so that you'll have more people employed thereby reducing the work burden and giving more doctors a life( a large majority in private hospitals are either under payed and some are even jobless!) . but no, selfish , proud and insensitive they remain to their own plights too.  
Thirdly most Docs in luth are the sions and daughters of existing big bpys in the profession , so they feel immuned to any anything/anybody and believe they can behave as they like.

gentlegg:

I think is common with all government owned institutions especially FG owned.

I had a similar annoying experience last week at FMC Asaba. My wife gave birth there last week. I can't narrate all my experience there but the most annoying thing to me is when my wife and baby was discharged to go. They were discharged around 9.00AM and i asked for the bill, they told me to wait, that they have sent our file/folder to the department where they will cost it and send our bill. Oh boy i waited till 12pm and they've not sent the thing. When i tried asking the nurses the second time what is delaying the cost, infact they told me not to enter their ward/room again that is not their biz to cost. I went outside and waited till 3.00PM yet no info yet. I entered there to ask them again but met nurses on afternoon shift, i narrated my story to them, and they told me to keep waiting, i then asked them to tell me where the so called costing/accounting department is so i can go myself and ask what's delaying, they told me that is not my biz to go there, that i should keep waiting. i waited till 4PM, yet nothing. Around 4:30 the bill/cost finally was sent. To pay the bill is where my patience got drained, one nurse said i should follow her to where i will pay, when we got there, those people have left, the nurse complained that they shouldn't have left by then, somebody beside there then told us that they have system failure hence they can't compute any payment, that's why they left, she now ask us to trek down to the 2nd place we could also pay, the nurse with me complained that she can't trek there, i asked her to give me the folder/file she was carrying so i can carry it to the 2nd place and pay there, she said that she can't leave the file for me. She now told me to wait again for somebody else to come so that she will send me with the person. I waited like another 30mins yet the person have not come. I entered there to complain that they've really killed my time, the nurse almost pushed me out of the ward saying that infact am not authorized to enter inside there again, by now my patience are gone, i then went to SERVICOM office to complain, SERVICOM staffs now followed me to the nurses, it was at our arriving there that we saw the person she have been waiting for. By now i was really fuming, the SERVICOM staffs pleaded with me that since the person have come that i should now follow here to pay, i finally drove out with my wife and baby from the hospital around 5:30PM

Dextra:

Reindeer is the only person who had made a reasonable statement in ds forum. @Dis Guy, how do u know dat abortion is 5k? @All, u all come in here to show self righteousness whereas u are worst in your respective places of work. Just because u encountered a single unfriendly health personnel in a public hosp, u rant nd generalize. U walk in2 d hospital nd treat dem as if they are your servants, u can't even take simple instruction! How do u expect dem to respect u?

wendieposh:

Their work load is crazy! Plus their salaries are not
always paid on time or at all

Tokotaya:

Truth is the docs are even better. Most nurses are illiterate in their mentality.

I see this internet campaign as seeking pity which wont make you or the system better.

Dis Guy:

can you imagine a medical doctor yet again thinking everyone making a complaint or stating their distaste to awful customer service is seeking sympathy

They are overworked
They are poorly paid
The society in general is rude
Everyone expects to be treated like kings bla blah


IF that's the case why is their strike always mostly about INCREASE IN SALARY and never strike on behalf of their fellow nurse and even patients
Strike for better equipments and fairer workload, these guys behave just like ASUU who only ever strike for wage increments but never  offer improve their own individual performance
Another worrying aspect is they refer you to nearby private clinics/hospital where they have financial interest, usually when they are on strike they are holed up here receiving fee paying customers, perhaps they are deliberately offering satanic   customer service so you have not option than to go private.

its not rocket science take a poll online or on the streets the result will overwhelmingly come back with the same result= extremely poor service, rude staff, scheming! its not enough to hide under come excuses of 'some' few bad eggs, the problem is there! admit it and deal with it, instead of always accusing genuine complaints as an attempt to 'spoil some non-existent' reputation!

PS: there are brilliant doctors/health workers out there, in fact when you come across these lot, you'd wonder if these people didnt attend the same lectures

KDULAR:

Majority of Docs and nurses especially the former are in for the Job not because of real love for the Job but because of money and the pride  ( at least they are better paid than most civil servants) and their entry point is out of this world ( Imagine ) at the present rate, It will take graduates of other degreees employed at the same time with these doctors 8 years! to get to their entry point . Even a lab scientist or pharmacist who spent just a year less than the number of years spent by d Doctors to get their degrees will have to spend 5 years on the Job before he can get to their own entry point Not to now talk of the the Bogus allowances and royalty accorded them in their emolment and condition of service. Thus making it lucrative.

Look at all the previous strikes by the doctors especially the younger ones and you 'll see that it is bacically 90 % about their pay rise and 10% better equipments for improved services.
When you see 2 young doctors talking about a new employment by either of the two,the first thing will be asked is ' how are you being payed and not how's  the Job and  thing that makes them look confident is actually how much they earn, the moment some one of other profession seem to look better than them,, they "loose it". This is the reason why they  fight only for themselves for increment of pay leaving out all other health workers who sin qua non they cannot function , Besides no doctor is thought how to manage an hospital in their training but what do you see, they are the head of all hospitals and health ministries and thus the sorry state of our health sector. I said ones that rather than increase pay adn emoluments fantastically even from intern level as being done now ,why not spread on more heads so that you'll have more people employed thereby reducing the work burden and giving more doctors a life( a large majority in private hospitals are either under payed and some are even jobless!) . but no, selfish , proud and insensitive they remain to their own plights too.  
Thirdly most Docs in luth are the sions and daughters of existing big bpys in the profession , so they feel immuned to any anything/anybody and believe they can behave as they like.

reindeer:

So what does the internet campaign hope to achieve?can you please let us know exactly just what this will achieve?
There are channels for complaints, there are channels for airing your grievances, there are processes in government hospitals for dealing with complaints. That will achieve results, crying on the internet won't do much.
I said this because i dont know what you expect here, we have agreed there is a problem, we have given reasons for the problem, we have identified ways in which it can be reduced. Ok what suggestions do you have?

Dis Guy:

still cant understand the use of the word campaign as if it some orchestrated attempt to label unprofessional doctors- there have only been two unrelated complaints about doctors in the past few weeks

what does the yapping on nairaland hope to achieve? what is being achieved by the commentators in the political section of the site?
it seems like you are from an environment/culture where genuine complaints is frowned upon, where feedback for improvement is just a buzzword;
the channels for complaints and processes for dealing with complaint are perhaps like many other things including the service they provide inefficient corrupt, and poorly regulated and with the attempts at defending these uncaring care workers, one shouldn't be surprised if patients are met with the same attitude of closing ranks and victimizing the complainer.

all you see is degraded human conditions and yet you are not paid enough for the horrors