onuman:

The litigant doctor ought to have prayed the court to stop the NMA from extorting doctors. The NMA plays supplementary roles to the NMDC in regulating medical practice, as well as protect the interest of doctors. Making the NMA a voluntary association is not at the interest of medical practice in the country. It's the government that is supposed to checkmate the extortionist officials of the NMA. But the government is not living up to its responsibility on that; the same manner the government has failed to checkmate extortion of members in other professional associations that indulge in extortion of their members; the same way the government has failed to checkmate the electricity DISCOs that extort citizens through Community Bills.

Nobody MADE it voluntary
It has
always been so

There is nothing like supplemtary role in regulation.
All regulation is statutory

There is no limit to the number of possible medical associations e.g you can have Ijaw doctors association, Christian doctors, military doctors and so on

They would all be interest groups not regulators
Same as NMA

ElevationD:
Having spent all the years training to become a medical doctor, you are still not qualified until you get your practicing license from the NMA.

Certainly some big bosses or controllers of the associations got greedy, as they probably found the place as a looting ground. Their greed has been destroyed by the court. Now once you are out of school, you can practice. However what and see how they would still put stumbling blocks on the way. I am very sure that many Doctors are glad at the judgement.

Now this Doctor has dismantled that structure. That’s what Peter Obi talks about. Destruction of the structure of criminality. The Doctor must be Obidient!

NMA has nothing to do with licence

Read the post well before commenting!

Racoon:
See wahala! So there will now be freelance medical practitioner with no regulatory authority? This one nah license to kill o.

onuman:



Judge hiding under freedom of association to deliver a stupeeed judgment.
In other words, any Dick can now practice medicine in Nigeria; no supervision from the regulatory body - the Medical and Dental Association of Nigeria. The association needs to appeal against the judgment.

You need to appeal for a refund of your school fees
You cannot comprehend simple English

Racoon:
See wahala! So there will now be freelance medical practitioner with no regulatory authority? This one nah license to kill o.

NMA is not a legally reçognized regulatory body. MDCN is the government-aproved regulatory body for medical and dental doctors in Nigeria. NMA is just a pressure group and some people are using it to milk others dry.

Racoon:
See wahala! So there will now be freelance medical practitioner with no regulatory authority? This one nah license to kill o.

That is not what the judgement means.

jahsharon:


Read well and understand, don't just read one or two lines like your other lazy youths that don't read. The regulatory council is not the same as the association, it cannot be, but the regulatory council has allowed the association to blur the line between the two

Honestly! MDCN ideally should be completely independent of NMA in order to avoid conflict of interests in the regulatory roles of MDCN but the corrupt system has made it such that NMA meddles so much into the affairs of MDCN

freedomchild:
This one na doctor's matter. This case would definitely lead to the weakening of NMA as a Union which would gradually reduce there influence in the healthcare polity.

Most unions in this country serve as a means to extort people.

NMA as a body seems to be a backbone which fights and protects the rights of doctors especially from the government.

They also serve as a Union used to fight other healthcare stakeholders.

That would be in the best interest of Nigeria's healthcare system and healthcare-seeking Nigerians because NMA has over the years constituted clog in wheels of progress of our healthcare system by unreasonably stunting the growth of other health professionals and depriving Nigerians of the benefits of such growth.

Their fights against other health professionals are usually very unreasonably petty. Such fights usually portray them like the proverbial hunter that was busy struggling to over an ant whilst carrying the carcass of an elephant on his head. Very annoying people dragging the noble profession of medicine to the mud!

adioolayi:
Why...

How will they regulate themselves if they are not members of the same body

I do hope the court will say same of NBA.


I am not a Dr...but this judgement be one kain

Ah, does extorting members mean regulation? I don't think so.

When will someone sue PSN? Those mugus wan kill me with dues. Over 100k every year for audio building. Thiefs everywhere. Mehn fvck Nigeria!

Racoon:
See wahala! So there will now be freelance medical practitioner with no regulatory authority? This one nah license to kill o.

No! It is unfortunate that yours was the first post!

There are 2 bodies he sued. The regulator that issues practicing license and the labour union or professional association of medical doctors. The regulators will continue to regulate medical practice in Nigeria. However, it is no longer compulsory for medical doctors to be a member of the professional association

Racoon:
See wahala! So there will now be freelance medical practitioner with no regulatory authority? This one nah license to kill o.

Read the post properly.

Racoon:
See wahala! So there will now be freelance medical practitioner with no regulatory authority? This one nah license to kill o.

Nma is not a regulatory authority. Mdcn is

adioolayi:
Why...

How will they regulate themselves if they are not members of the same body

I do hope the court will say same of NBA.


I am not a Dr...but this judgement be one kain

Those bodies wake and levy everybody huge money, that u will take 3 months to pay. At end, nothing to show. They ll be drive biiiig cars

Gajagojo:


NMA has nothing to do with licence

A little bit of reading would have helped you.

“ On September 20, 2021, SaharaReporters reported that Olusola Adeyelu had sued NMA and MDCAN over the alleged imposition of unjustifiable charges on medical practitioners. It was reported that he also sought a court order declaring NMA membership as voluntary and that he has the right to resign his membership from the association and still practise as a medical doctor.

However, in 2020, upon payment for the renewal of his practicing licence, the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria insisted that the payment of the Nigerian Medical Association’s building levy was compulsory for all doctors in Nigeria before practising licence could be renewed and indeed made it a precondition for the mandatory renewal of the practising license for the year and without any legal justification”.


That’s the story!

Racoon:
See wahala! So there will now be freelance medical practitioner with no regulatory authority? This one nah license to kill o.

they are all regulated but joining the association is not compulsory. Renewing license is compulsory so has no effect on doctors

DCmonster:
But you need NBA stamp to file cases or submit documents in court.
Dey play.

And WHY? I mean, that's as unconstitutional as it gets. Play till someone challenges it in court and wins.

ElevationD:


A little bit of reading would have helped you.

“ On September 20, 2021, SaharaReporters reported that Olusola Adeyelu had sued NMA and MDCAN over the alleged imposition of unjustifiable charges on medical practitioners. It was reported that he also sought a court order declaring NMA membership as voluntary and that he has the right to resign his membership from the association and still practise as a medical doctor.

However, in 2020, upon payment for the renewal of his practicing licence, the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria insisted that the payment of the Nigerian Medical Association’s building levy was compulsory for all doctors in Nigeria before practising licence could be renewed and indeed made it a precondition for the mandatory renewal of the practising license for the year and without any legal justification”.


That’s the story!

I know the story....
Intimately

NMA has NOTHING to do with licence
Absolutely Zero

Literacy will help you if you can acquire it

This is what you said ignorantly

ElevationD:
Having spent all the years training to become a medical doctor, you are still not qualified until you get your practicing license from the NMA.
!

The NMA does not issue practising licence the NMDC does
Licence is not a qualification you don't need a licence if you choose to go abroad
Your degree is your qualification
Stop arguing foolishly on a matter you are totally clueless about

TH3 NMA HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH LICENCES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

hopeforcharles:
Wahala. So I fit just wear lab coat, steal or modify certificate then boom I am a doctor.

After reading, please try and comprehend, NMA is different from MDCN which licenses and regulates medical practice

Racoon:
See wahala! So there will now be freelance medical practitioner with no regulatory authority? This one nah license to kill o.

Learn took read with understanding
MDCN is in charge of licensing, and is compulsory. U cannot escape it. NMA is just an association for physicians and isn't compulsory

tuoyoojo:
This is the step in the right direction

NMA doesn't do much asides collecting dues

Every doctor forced to pay building levys is extortion
At least with this hope the indiscriminate and illegal level would stop

Hmmm. These court cases are useless. NMA and MDCN would still extort that building levy from u. Those 2 are in cahoots. There was a court case won by one Igbo physician lawyer(forgotten his name). They ruled that the building levy is illegal since last year but just last month I paid that levy when I was trying to get my certificate of good standing for external practice.
So don't bother yourself, dem go catch u when u wan get one certificate or other.
Useless criminals

Racoon:
Do you read that one of the antagonism of the petitioner against the MDCN is the issue of a just constituting a delegate body that unilaterally determined the fate of doctors via a delegate system that does not allow for participatory association? Meanwhile, the MDCN have been imposing the illegal building levy in collaboration with the NMA.

Association is different from licensing. Every doctor in Nigeria is licensed and have a folio number. Stop exposing your ignorance

Bluntemperor:
Human Selfishness:
•I don't know why the O P brought this to grace the Front page but it doesn't worth it- especially,in this kind of Labour dispute.
That Judgement will surely be appealed against and won by the NMA!
•The Doctor is exercising his right no doubts but a Caveat on the Medical line- if you want to continue to Practice Medicine, you belongs to this body- which Control, Monitor,set examinations Standards- as a Specialist, Surgeon experts, Professional,etc.
•Who Monitors his Improvements and Promotions to a higher level?
When he wants to Sign a Form for other Examinations,he needs the Signatures and Stamps of his Colleagues - who belongs to the NMA professional body!
I doubt it it's because of due payment alone making him to fret!
That is what you can't do as a LONE -Ranger in a body that deals with LIFE!
It's a Vexation, Uncalled for and Selfish personality!

Reread the article. This time very slowly

onuman:


The NMA is another organisation that checkmates faking and standards in Medical practice.
It compliments the jobs of the NMDC.
Without the Nigeria Medical Association, the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria would be there while fake doctors and substandard practices take over the entire space of Nigeria.

What is this one saying?
NMA has no business over checkmating practices and weeding out unlicensed doctors
I think English comprehension tests should be a must on Nairaland

onuman:

Bolded.
An association that goes for the interest of doctors is crucial to medical practice in any society. Any doctor who opts out of such an association may have sinister motives.

I have been practicing for nearly 20 years without giving a fvck about NMA Meetings or dues(apart from the few occasions MDCN forced me to pay their dues) and I have no need for them. Now that I'm leaving, they can go suck a dicck

ElevationD:
Having spent all the years training to become a medical doctor, you are still not qualified until you get your practicing license from the NMA.

Certainly some big bosses or controllers of the associations got greedy, as they probably found the place as a looting ground. Their greed has been destroyed by the court. Now once you are out of school, you can practice. However what and see how they would still put stumbling blocks on the way. I am very sure that many Doctors are glad at the judgement.

Now this Doctor has dismantled that structure. That’s what Peter Obi talks about. Destruction of the structure of criminality. The Doctor must be Obidient!

What is this one saying? When did NMA start issuing licenses? Lol 😆
Not only is Tilumbu subjecting u to object poverty, he's also sucking your brains

Gajagojo:

I know the story....
Intimately

NMA has NOTHING to do with licence
Absolutely Zero

Literacy will help you if you can acquire it

This is what you said ignorantly

The NMA does not issue practising licence the NMDC does
Licence is not a qualification you don't need a licence if you choose to go abroad
Your degree is your qualification
Stop arguing foolishly on a matter you are totally clueless about

TH3 NMA HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH LICENCES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

Mr. I too know. Please read and stop this arrogant display of lack of reading culture and blatant ignorance. You know it and yet you failed to read the published story.

I quoted what I read and here it is again below:

“It was reported that he also sought a court order declaring NMA membership as voluntary and that he has the right to resign his membership from the association and still practise as a medical doctor.

However, in 2020, upon payment for the renewal of his practicing licence, the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria insisted that the payment of the Nigerian Medical Association’s building levy was compulsory for all doctors in Nigeria before practising licence could be renewed and indeed made it a precondition for the mandatory renewal of the practising license for the year and without any legal justification”.

Looking through that is it not obvious to you that his membership was predicated on payment of levies and the rates were not justifiable to him? Added to it was the lack of proper democratic practices that did not suit him. He went to court and he won.

The MDCN issues licenses and were sued along with NMA. The story says that MDCN insisted. The word insisted was there. All the man wanted (just like many others who could not summon courage), was to cut off his perceived yoke of the associations, off his neck.

“License is not a qualification”? And yet the renewal of his license was hinged upon his payment of the levies? Who issues licenses that need to be renewed? You?

“..if you choose to go abroad”. Who’s talking about that? We are talking about medical practice in Nigeria, oga loud mouth.

Clueless people who ask questions and read properly, are more knowledgeable than arrogant people, who claim to know all and yet fail the basic things.

Oga read the entire story word by word. If you do not understand it in English, please translate it to your language, for better understanding.

onuman:


Malpractice and discipline of medical practitioners are what seems to interest you.
Interest of medical practitioners does not interest you. Reality is if interest of practitioners is not looked after by the government, government hospitals will become mere decorative edifices.

There's other associations that canvass for doctor welfare like NARD, AGMPSS, MDCAN etc
If u don't understand something, why don't you keep quiet and let the knowledgeable ones lecture u

jaephoenix:

What is this one saying? When did NMA start issuing licenses? Lol 😆
Not only is Tilumbu subjecting u to object poverty, he's also sucking your brains

Go and sit down.
It was not meant to be NMA.

Blind follow follow supporter, with a long neck like the ostrich’s.

In 2014, your likes protested against GEJ’s government to the highest heaven, when he was going to end fuel subsidy and set petrol at 140.

The same people who led your protests are in charge today, with petrol at 1000 in some areas. You roast and cry secretly in your closets and openly pretend that all is well.

Just know that you are welcome to get some food from me anytime, any day, until you can begin to fend for yourself. Ensure to use this same moniker.

mkoabiola:

What's d diffeerence btwn NARD and NMA.

NARD is for residents and house officers
NMA is for all doctors, irrespective of cadres

Gajagojo:


You need to appeal for a refund of your school fees
You cannot comprehend simple English

As in eh…
Simple English is a problem for some people