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croSStodds:
You too get bad mouth.What if he's right?It's actually possible he's what he claimed to be.
It's true doctors,not only 'em health professionals in general are being vehemently underpaid in naija.
in fact,the situations is just too pathetic.Someone who studies a 4year banking and finance course and an accountant who spent less than 4years in school will be earning 4times your salary for an entry level...imagine!!!
actually,the dweeb doesn't know what he's saying all the same.

Chai, .....DWEEB!!! If I were Phantom I would just go on sabbatical, chaiii chaiii, I cannot take this chaiii

casket:
IFA is a comedian..
This same minister was once NARD president, lead NARD as a on strike against federal government 30 years ago oo.

They've sacked us twice within 2 years now..

You know what he was sacked once and he became a minister, and we've been sacked twice meaning our generation will become Presidents by God's grace.

nkemjacob2:
Dis kind of news make me dont trust, newspapers, blogers, or any print media. They can deny anytin and say anyin. Cos there are no concrete proof. Unlike radio and television where u can hear and see them.

Don't mind them, they can even deny their names

Honourable minister of health lacks full grasp of skipping And He is the minister of health in this dispensation, in this century? and he is a doctor? nay a Professor of Obs and Gynae?

Chaiii, where is PEJ when you need her?

There is God oooo

Is he still denying it?

nelszx:
Adewole ain't got balls mehn

Yea he's got no balls at all. Don't forget he ran into exile or should I say to seek for asylum in the UK 30 years ago when he was sacked by PMB for going on strike as a Resident doctor.

Today he sacked us thinking we like him will run, nah nah nah, we gat balls men!!!

In another news the meeting of NARD with The Honourable Speaker that lasted for about 6hours just ended.

This issue of sack was raised and both the Minister and the Perm Sec denied any knowledge of such.... imagine.

We'll hear from NARD soonest

armadeo:
Source.

Naija on fire if true.

Passport loading.

100% true. I have the communique. JOHESU had meeting today with FG at the Conference hall of MoLE and came up with this. I've been trying to download it here but not been able to.

so it's very very true.

In another news, Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) starts a 7-day warning strike on Wednesday 22/06/2016 by 12:01am

Warning strike by JOHESU Tomorrow
Wednesday 22/06/2016 by 12:01am

Warning strike by JOHESU Tomorrow

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Professor Isaac Adewole, former vice-chancellor of the University of Ibadan, was sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari 30 years ago, when he was Nigeria’s military head of state.

Sixty year old Adewole was then the secretary of the  Association of Resident Doctors at the University College Hospital in Ibadan.

Declared wanted by the Buhari regime, Adewole ran out of Nigeria and was on exile in Britain for 15 months. He returned to Nigeria following the pardon granted him and others by the Babangida administration.



But being in exile also changed the career path of Adewole. In an interview with TheNEWS on the occasion of his 60th birthday last May, he explained how this happened:

“I was away for about 15 months. But the experience I had at a research laboratory in London also influenced what I am today and helped me when I returned because while I was there, I wrote four papers. The then president, Ibrahim Babangida, gave us pardon. He said he was granting pardon to all the dismissed doctors so that they could participate in the national political discourse.

” I must thank some of my teachers who believed in me, especially Professor Ladipo who took active interest in me and brought me up. He was from Ogbomoso and I am from Ilesa. Many of the things I have achieved today happened through my interactions with him. He was among those who encouraged me to come back. I almost didn’t want to come back. Coming back means I am now in the academic line. Sometime in 1984/85, someone prophesied that Adewole would become a lecturer and a professor and I said, Throw it into the bin. I came back and from lecturer one, I rose through the ranks and became a professor, became head of department, provost, member of council, and vice-chancellor. Over the last 60 years, I have been the product of some divine interventions at various junctions.”.

http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2014/05/life-60/

Hmmmmm..... Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu comes to mind.. Like Adewale like Onyebuchi, Like GEJ like PMB.

Which way Najeriya!!!!

Sir, Permit me to use the nursingworldnigeria.com website to appreciate your kind gesture at the recent increment in allowances for NYSC members serving in your state, Sokoto.
You showed great magnanimity towards medical doctors by increasing their allowance from N36000 to N50,000. With this new initiative by your governemnt, even pharmacists would now smile home with N25,000 up from the N19,000 they previously earned.
According to you sir, graduates of lab science and other MEDICAL TECHNICIANS LIKE NURSES are now entitled to a monthly stipend of N15,000 up from the current N9,000 they were earning from the state governemnt
MEDICAL TECHNICIANS LIKE NURSES?
Sir, My first reaction to your grouping of nurses as MEDICAL TECHNICIANS was to laugh it off and totally ignore it but on second thought, I decided keeping silent would be unwise and i would unwittingly be lending credence to your innocent 'demeaning categorization' of nurses as technicians.
For the records sir,'medical technician’ is a broad term that encompasses a number of important careers in the healthcare industry.
In Nigeria these group of careers are referred to as medical technicians: operation theatre technicians, echo technicians, lab technicians, pharmacy technicians, environmental health technicians, community health technicians, medical darkroom technicians, x-ray technicians, dental technicians, biomed technicians, anaesthetic technicians, optometric technicians, EEG technicians etc their jobs can involve tasks such as utilizing equipment that provides the latest life-saving medical treatments for patients in need. Duties may involve the utilization of diagnostic equipment to produce images that allow physicians to diagnose and effectively treat a host of ailments. In addition to the responsibility of running medical equipment, medical technicians can also perform administrative duties that include organizing patient charts and making sure records are accurate and up to date
Sir, We are all human and every one can make an innocent mistake as we are not infallable. Even the president at one point in time referred to Germany as “West Germany” whereas Germany ceased to be West Germany in 1990. You would agree with me at this point that nurses are not medical technicians.
I am sincerely worried that your categorization of nurses as 'medical technicians' may have guided your decision on what they should earn as remuneration in this new policy you plan to implement.
I dont mean to disparage any professional course but i must highlight the fact that all these technician courses you grouped nurses with are all run on national diploma (ND) and higher national diploma (HND) basis in colleges of health tech at a maximum duration of 3 years. Could this be a factor your considered when you deemed it befitting that they earn N15,000?
According to the NUC benchmark and minimum academic standard for pharmaceutical sciences, Pharmacist spend five years in the university and graduate with a bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm), Nurses also spend 5 years in the university and graduate with a bachelor of Nursing science (BNSc) in addition to multiple diplomas in Nursing, Midwifery, public health etc. Am at a loss as to the yardstick used to determine that corper pharmacists should earn N25000 and nurses N15,000 whereas both spend same 5 years in the university and graduate with bachelors degree.
Sir, you must take a stand and stop this day light robbery which even continues even after youth service as these same pharmacy graduates after NYSC are placed on CONHESS 09 (Grade level 10) after internship with all its attendant practical experience and financial emoluments while nurses are denied internship opportunities and aberrantly placed on CONHESS 07 (Grade level 08)
Nurses spend more time at the patients bedside, they work under inhumane conditions in the wards. They are overworked and underpaid. What an aberration and travesty of justice. I urge you sir to revisit this new policy and ensure that NYSC nurses in the employ of sokoto state earn remunerations commensurate with the load they carry at work.
In November 2015, you ordered the immediate reabsorbtion of 50 Sure-p midwives and nurses into the sokoto primary healthcare agency after the federal government had ordered the winding down of SURE-P. We need you to stand up for us and take a stand. Nurses are not medical technicians and we deserve better.
I trust you would do the needfull
Jude Chiedu writes for Nursingworldnigeria.com
http://www.medicalworldnigeria.com/2016/06/dear-gov-tambuwal-nurses-are-not-technicians-by-jude-chiedu

DLondonboiy is likened to the proverbial palmwine taper. A palmwine taper never discloses all that he saw while atop the palm tree.

It's obvious he has information and l think we should be glad because at least we have someone who can tell Nigerians the truth.

We wish PMB well.
DLondonboiy, ride on, nothing do you.

DLondonboiy is likened to a palmwine taper. A palmwine taper never discloses all that he saw while atop the palm tree.

It's obvious he has information and l think we should be glad because at least we have someone who can tell Nigerians the truth.

We wish PMB well.
DLondonboiy, ride on, nothing do you.

Baroba:
A country people can easily buy opioids from Eze the chemist, and you tell me we don't live in a zoo..

Bros, what you need is build up your endurance, the human body has a wonderful way of adapting..

Please stay far away from Tramadol..

Bros no mind this guy, he thinks Tramadol is like children's biscuits...

If casala bursts he'll be running helter skelter when it'll be late already. If this guy is wise he should heed your advice and others' to stay away from Tramadol because it is not Tom Tom

He thinks government is foolish by making Tramadol a prescription-only-drug

Wait ooo, so even common geography our Agric Minister does not know, so He doesn't know that Libya is a north African country and NOT a member of ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States).

Even if there were such laws Mallam Ogbe so you will sit tight and watch your citizens slaughtered by foreigners and you do nothing because of one law? haba Mallam.

Why do we have these type of humans as our leaders, why? why??

ARD UCH
The brief and purposeful meeting with the speaker has ended. He pleaded for concession but NARD president made it clear we have negotiating for more than 3years and that the only concession now is that centers enjoying skipping are exempted for two weeks before joining centers not enjoying that are starting strike tommorrow.
He appreciated the concession given and fixed another meeting next week. All concerned stakeholders are expected to be present.
He also admitted that it might be difficult for the executive to change congress decision without recourse back to congress.
Please note, the nation wide center specific NARD strike starts 8am tommorrow.
Cheers.
Luqman ogunjimi
ARD UCH

It's unfortunate we found ourselves in this mess

Adenomyosis is when the tissues covering the inner aspects of the womb (endometrial tissues) is found within the muscles of the womb. It occurs in women of reproductive age group, rare before puberty and after menopause.

The main cause is unknown but a lot of factors have been attributed to it including hormonal factors, immunological factors, metaplasia (I.e. conversion of one type of tissue into another), retrograde menstruation, narrowing of the mouth of the womb (cervical stenosis), etc.

It can be very distressing, causes abnormal vaginal bleeding, severe menstrual and lower abdominal pain, severe pain during intercourse and infertility.

For your wife to have had uterine rupture at 32 weeks means it has severely eaten up the muscles of the womb such that it could no longer sustain the growing baby hence it gave way via rupture (breakage/tear).

If by God's grace she gets pregnant again the rupture will happen at an earlier time less than 32 weeks, and may be more "dangerous" than the first, hence the doctor's suggestion of delivering the baby at 30 weeks.

Removing the womb is NOT the definitive cure except where the lesion is confined to the womb but because endometriosis is capable of affecting different organs in the body including the lungs, liver and brain, it makes removing the womb irrelevant. Endometriosis is when this lining occurs in other structures or tissues outside the womb.

Removing the womb may be helpful if it is at a very early stage, and because she had rupture the lesion may have spread to different parts of the abdomen. Unfortunately she only needs palliation and God's miracle. She doesn't need to go abroad because it will be the same story, so save that money and pray for a miracle. Don't waste your money with native medicine they will not help.

l wish you luck.

hmmmmm... Kili we Nwachukwu, watched this Superman perform in those days in primary school, wao! waoo!! waoo!!!


Kili we...

Rxpetite:
Every state has a right to allow or deny herdsmen access to her territory.
Not all herdsmen are evil but one has to be careful. When boko haram started, northerners treated these issues with kid gloves until it started to torment them. They knew the members but protected them until they became uncontrollable. As far as I'm concerned, Northerners grew, groomed and nourished boko haram.
Here in the south we will not tolerate any act of terrorism especially from the north. We have our own issues to deal with.
They ask why we reacted differently to the kidnap of amina and ese ? The answer is simple;
Northern terrorists kidnap their northern schoolgirls in their northern territory and we Southerners can only show our concern(#bringbakourgirls ) and caution the north.
Northern assholes kidnap southern girls from southern territory and we will in orubebe's words , not take it.
States which can monitor the herdsmen can let them roam. If fayose cannot guarantee the security of his state from herdmen, he has every right to ban them from the on set to avoid stories that touch. people learn from their mistakes but smart people learn from other's mistakes.

well articulated... sincerely, you deserve a bottle of Coke

obbasiasa:
lol, permission Do you know the patient? Or did you see the pix as one that need permission?
If I want to show I am a doctor, there are better ways, I have picture of myself in operating theater and I can take a pix of stethoscope
I write like someone with intelligence, please try using it because it can waste away

Hi obbasiasa, I'm sure you know that doctors don't talk the way you're doing, pls those were not necessary. It is against the code of medical ethics to post the picture/image of your patient online without their consent, more so a minor. If you are taken up on this, then it would have been too late to learn.

please do the needful and remove the picture. PaulkillermanAg et al please forgive him I'm sure he has learnt something from this. Cheers!!

encourage her to go and see a Dermatologist in the nearest Teaching hospital.

The FG budgeted about 250billion naira for the health care of 170million Nigerians for the year 2016. A paltry 4% of the total budget', less than 5.8% - last year's figure and a far cry from 15% agreed by all Africa states. In simple terms, on a per capita basis, Federal Government of Nigeria is committed to spending 1,470naira on the health care of each Nigerian in 2016. My brother when next you see doctors operating with torch light or candle, please thank them. If you're planning to fall sick this year, have a rethink.

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Coordinator of the Benue State Myetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), the association of herdsmen, Gololo Garus, says the reason for last Friday's attack by the herdsmen on residents of Agwabi village in Binev Council Ward of Buruku local government area of the state, was because the youth in the area stole 800 cattle from the herdsmen a day before the attack happened. According to Tribune, Gololo said that information passed to him by the herdsmen claimed that trouble started when youth from the affected village on Thursday, May 12th, took away 800 cows belonging to the resident herders. He said instead of reporting to the appropriate authorities, the herdsmen decided to take laws into their hands by fighting with the youth in the community "The herders traced the missing cows the following day to that village and that was how trouble started. This is highly regrettable because they should have notified the security apparatus already put in place by the state government who could have handled the matter. They didn't report the matter even to us (MACBAN). It is painful that while the state government is doing everything to resolve the crisis, some others are taking the law into their hands. But, those found wanting in this matter would surely be handed over to the security agencies," he said. Over 12 people died during the attack.
www.lindaikejisblog.com/2016/05/herdsmen-attacked-benue-youths-last.html?m=1

The West Africa College of Physicians concluded the
second diet of exams recently. The faculty of psychiatry
declared a pass rate of 13.8% at its part one membership
exams (8 of 58 candidates). The faculty of public and
community health recorded a 32% pass rate (23 of 70
candidates)

Twice every year, candidates from all over the country
converge in Ibadan and Lagos for the West Africa College
of Physician and National Post Graduate Medical College
exams respectively, each diet of examinations consisting
of written, objective structured clinical exams, picture tests
and oral/long case exams as the case may be. It is usually
a very grueling and trying time for any candidate with
psychological, emotional, financial and sometimes
physical consequences.

A minimum of N60,000 is paid for each exam attended
without consideration of transportation, feeding, and other
ancillary expenses incurred. It is funded by the candidate
after an initial one time sponsorship by the training
hospital.

A candidate may repeat the exams as many as seven (7)
times. There are records of up to 10 times and over at one
stage. Usually, candidates do not scale the first stage, and
even then, meeting hurdles in each subsequent stages of
the OSCE, Picture test and long case stages. Each must be
passed independently, usually under stifling time
constraints.

It is pertinent to shed some light on the long case
examination, already phased out by certain faculties of the
college owing to its largely subjective nature. A candidate
is assigned a patient for the purposes of the exam, and is
to conduct an interview, physical examination and
prescribe a course of management under harrowing time
conditions. The candidate is to make an oral submission
of his findings to two or more examiners who are usually
less than dispassionate in their assessments. Mark you,
less than 10% of these examiners have any degree in
education, evaluation, assessing or any pedagogic training
for that matter.

It is under this long case that a lot of examiners excise
their “pound of flesh” as a candidate may be faulted in
practically any and everything! Thus, a candidate who
manages to scale through the first, second and third
stages, is truncated at the last stage by an examiner who
chooses to sleep during proceedings!

A lot of candidates have been maimed as a result of the
activities of these colleges with the active connivance of
some training hospitals. Failing to pass these exams, a
doctor is unable to make any professional advancement;
he is stuck and sooner or later shown the way out of the
residency program with no lifeline. He is unemployable as
a specialist, and cannot proceed as a general practitioner.
Medicine is touted to be an apprenticeship; so, if a
candidate has to repeat a particular exam so many times,
has he been properly mentored? Small wonder the high
morbidity and mortality rates; the capital flight in medical
tourism and the total loss of faith in the healthcare system.
Such candidates who are frustrated out of the system for
their inability to scales these exams, where do they go?
Where do they start from with families and other
dependants? What about the psychological toll on him?
Something to which he has committed a lifetime of effort
and suffered untold deprivation?

A number of questions beg for answers;
Does this “high” standard that candidates are held up to
translate to favorable health indices for the country-
reduced morbidity, mortality and medical tourism to India
and other nations? Capital flight? Is the nation any better
off from the efforts of the Postgraduate medical college?
What does a failure rate of 87% connote? The trainers are
not doing their jobs? The trainers do not understand what
is required of them? That candidates are so dull? Or is it
simply a case of unregulated and misguided leadership?
What role does national interest play in the determination
of proceedings, procedures, modus operandi and outcomes of the college? The national postgraduate medical college of Nigeria prides itself in having produced 4,000 plus specialists in over 30 years of existence and in a country of about 160 million people. Whose interest do they really serve?

What is the role of international best practice in the
regulation of the colleges? Any peer review mechanism?
Any validity and reliability studies on the mechanisms of
these colleges? Should each region or state not regulate its own postgraduate education, require and needs? Who oversees the activities of these colleges?

It is high time the House committee on health, the federal
ministry of health, policy makers and other interest groups
gave some scrutiny into the workings of these colleges in
the interest of all stake holders, and the nation as a whole
bearing in mind the various ramifications, dimensions and
implications of the activity of these colleges on all and
sundry.

It is no longer acceptable that things remain the
way they’ve always been. Indeed, the mark of humanity is
the ability to adapt; to evolve; to meet challenges and
peculiarities of the day, a peculiarity that once again
challenges our resourcefulness.
• Timi Babatunde MD
Lagos.

http://thenationonlineng.net/true-face-of-postgraduate-medical-training/

Politicians who say the last
administration is better than this
should be stoned like Satan is stoned
at Kabba'- Shettima

The Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, on
Wednesday May 4th, told the people of his state that
politicians who come to them to say the last administration
was better than this one should be stoned like Satan is
stoned at the Kabba during the Muslim Hajj.
According to Thisday , Shettima said this at the
commencement of distribution of relief materials in
Maiduguri by the National Logistics Committee on
Distribution of Relief Materials
“The politicians who left us to our troubles in the
last five years only to come back when peace has
returned to the state to tell us that Jonathan’s
administration was better than the present should
be stoned just like the Satan is stoned at the
Kaaba.”he said

www.lindaikejisblog.com/2016/05/politicians-who-say-last-administration.html?m=1

Lovalt15:
The problem is called endometriosis ( fallopian tube blockage ) in Yoruba language is called ( EDA) there is blockage in her tubes that why the fluids can't pass. One major cause of infertility read this https://www.nairaland.com/2848744/why-cant-pregnant-easily-women.

With due respect, please remove this it is a FALSE INFORMATION. This is wrong please don't delve into what you know absolutely NOTHING about.

Op, neither you nor your wife has any problem, it happens especially to first timers. If it continues, just visit a gynaecologist for counseling.