₦airaland Forum

diamondoluwole:
This isn't the matter of meeting Lagos is not meant for one person, for does people that said Lagos is for Yoruba people even Tinubu too can not said it that Lagos is for Yoruba people Lagos is for Benin people they are the first people that first came to Lagos. AD owns Lagos before Tinubu came and betraying them and built AC so he shouldn't afraid of loosing Lagos. This election is not for JK and Tinubuis for Tinubu and people in Lagos state if JK win the election make him go jump into lagoo n as cited by Oba of Lagos. People in Lagos is wiser than want you think. We can't vote fo r thief Ambode is a thief. Let another party rule us.

Abayhormy:
Do you know Ambode graduated as an accountant from University of Lagos at the age of 21?

Do you know he became a Chartered accountant at the age of 24 ?

Do you know he became a fellow of the Institute of chartered accountants at the age of 36 ?

Do you know he was the second best graduating student in WAEC+HSE at Federal government college Warri ?

Do you know JK was a strong Tinubu boy in ACN but left the party when Tinubu decided to pick fashola over him simply because Tinubu felt fashola would do better in governance because he is a lawyer and SAN while JK is just a Pharmacist ? Do you know it was the potentials that Tinubu saw in Fashola that now became evident to all of us in the governance of Fashola ?

Do you know Ambode was the Accountant General of Lagos state when Federal Government was not giving Lagos state any Allocation at all for some years(Tinubu was the governor) ? And Ambode/Tinubu had to put creative minds together to run lagos for four years(despite the huge population and responsibility) ?

Do you know Ambode has 26 years of Administrative/accounting experience ?

Ambode is a quiet man and he does not blow his horn too loud, but he is quality, just like Fashola.

Let's put sentiments aside, let's vote in the best interest of lagos.

Ambo, Atide. Eko oni Baje.

balaclava:
Look @ how SMALL that "big" white car became jst because it's parked side by side with that truck.

Lesson: don't ever look down on others, there's something out there way bigger than you. you'v jst not been placed side by side with it.

lonelydora:
I don't reply foo.ls like you. I'm sure I know more than you when it comes to road laws.

lonelydora:
Once it is called Highway, there is no speed limit attached to it. In an ideal situation you have right to overtake any car on highway but if you do such in a place like North East at the current situation I think you are inviting trouble. Well let's wait for the NA statement.

Dammysmart:
I remember doing this while I was in remedial school at Unilorin, dose days en my body go just dey smell flames ni...lolz, Buh its an experience to remember though,

so guys nd ladies who amongst u remember this moments, share your experiences too...

IHate9ja1:
i dont get dis private univ. stuff,instead i wld spend such cash on my kids to iceland,germany,south africa et al to get better quality on such fees and not just one priv univ in our rotten educational system.in south africa d fees aint upto 1m self.

beckleyhans:
Pls ooo is america an oil produceng country. must nigeria be like other countries. And must be during election he remove 10 naria. Who ever wrote dis dis tin get brain damage

temmytanny:
think before you write, there is road tax on the fuel charge in usa. minimum wage in usa is $7.25 meaning my one day pay is equal to your 15days pay(if you earn minimum wage).gas this time last year in dallas was $3.15/gallon but its $1.79 today. Even though we naija dont refine but atleast we should have the pump price below N70/litre.

dguy4:
Op pls get ur facts right before you post anything, America is not an oil producing state, you just can't compare them with us when it comes to crude oil, u compare your stats. with an oil producing state.

saintjoel:
Tincan/cotonou?

priscaoge: In Nigeria, a bottle of
Kerosene+stove+newspapers=BOMB Lmao

Tobbie9: sh*t

Tobbie9: is this who i think it is?

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I'm AS as well, but I haven't blamed God for the choices I've made. Did God ask you to "toast" a fellow AS genotype? Did God ask you not to check your genotype since 1914? People should take responsibility for their own actions and stop blaming God or Satan for everything. [/color]

Tobbie9: I always say Nigerian leadership is not d major problem, the followership is far worse people like Fayemi,oshiomole & co though not perfect are too sophisticated to survive the kind of politics in this zoo called Nigeria. God i hate this country

prettyprettywow: You forgot that these are salaries of specialist Doctors(consultants) with over 12yrs of education and average of $300k in student loan (for US Drs) as compared to the salaries of an entry level nurse ( 4yrs degree and less than $50k student loanfor US graduates)). You fail to realize that in US, resident Drs earn an average of $45k, quite below the salary of the least hospital worker. So when they say Drs aern 200k, know that they are talking about consultants, and if you wanna compare with nurses, talk about nurse practitioners where some specialist nurse practitioners earn more than some specialist Drs e.g Anaesthetic nurses (CRNA) earn more than family physicians. Our Drs want to reap where they did not sow.

Besides, nobody is asking to earn same salary as Drs. That has never been the issue

sonnie10: When a medical physicist (a consultant in radiology) is earning $200k and above per annum in US while a primary care physician is managing to take $180K per annum, people are here exhibiting ignorance about US payscale. These are individuals that have advanced there career from their humble being as radiographers. Every professional should be allowed to advance in his/her field. This medical physicist are also called resident/ consultants. I challenge any doctor here to tell us which specialty in medicine, be it either radiologist or oncologist has the training to handle the job of a medical physicist. That why the continue to roast cancer patients with wrong radiation doses in Nigeria in the name of delivering radiation doses. The simple physic in the radiologist board exam is the nightmare of every aspiring radiologist/oncologist. Dem no born any doctor well to attempt classical physics courses! QUOTE ME ANYWHERE.

drlawizle: Guy we wicked oh...see as you exposed this guy for public...the guy has gone to rest sha...#germanstyle!!!

sogodihno: Do these people tink everybody dt is doing pharmacy,nursing and physiotherapy first apply for medicine or intentionally want to go for medicine? in OAU if u dont beat d cut off of medicine, even if u beat dt of pharmacy u cant enter, because u didnt choose pharmacy.

Medicine was reserved for the best brains?
In OAU 2011/2012 PD, d highest score was 91. and dz boy dt got dz score chose pharmacy and cut off for medicine den was 82, like wise some of my friend wth scores like 83, 84 etc dt chose pharmacy.
u said 'best brains' make me remember a guy we called best brain, and u know wat? dz guy is in pharmacy not medicine. 60% of students in OAU bliv dt OAU PHARMACY is tougher than OAU MEDICINE; and dt's d truth.
Dz country na wa o, because u A a doctor u tink u A more intelligent than everybody else. Dia A some of my friend currently in Medicine dt score as low as 220,240 wen d cut off was 295. Dis A d best brains too? u call urself d head and u A preventing other part of d body from growing. let's see if d head will survive too.

LASTLY, All we A doing in dz country, let's all know that diaris God o

YourHealthlabs: THE rot in Nigeria’s health care delivery system has once again been brought to the fore as doctors embark on yet another strike that has crippled public health care services nationwide. As some patients die and others writhe in agony, with no physicians to attend to them, doctors and government officials cannot reach an agreement on how to quickly restore services to public health institutions. Both should reach for their consciences — if they still have any — and restart the hospitals to stop the human misery.

There are no saints in this grim saga. Successive governments have made a mess of health services — under-funding and under-equipping hospitals, entrenching corruption and inking agreements with doctors and other professionals that they thereafter fail to honour. Some doctors, on their part, have run public health institutions with glaring inefficiency, antagonized other health workers thereby polarizing the system, and short-changed the public by simultaneously engaging in private practice.

When public sector doctors began a “total and indefinite” nationwide strike on Tuesday, all these longstanding combustible elements were in play. Among their 24-point demands were the usual requests for better remuneration and implementation of agreements reached between the Nigerian Medical Association and its affiliates, and the Federal Government. The terms include upgrades of public health facilities, passage of the National Health Bill and universal coverage under the National Health Insurance Scheme. The doctors said their action was to “save the system from anarchy.”

While these sound lofty and there can be no excuse for the government’s failure to honour or renegotiate agreements, the sad reality is that Nigerian doctors have over-used and abused the strike weapon. As we have argued in the past, a physician belongs to a special class of professionals; we believe the primary job of a doctor is to save lives and manage the sick.

Just as journalists constitute the Fourth Estate of the Realm and soldiers pledge their very lives to defend the Commonwealth, we believe that doctors too have a higher calling that should make them embarrassed to be found staging more work stoppages than railway unionists, petrol tanker drivers or daily paid workers.

While the mandatory Hippocratic oath enjoins doctors to save lives, patients die and suffer disabilities and pain when doctors stop work. The strikes have been just too many and their impact, dreadful. The latest was preceded by a three-day “warning strike.” Numerous strikes since year 2000 have led to numerous deaths, while those mostly hit are the low income earners. In a country where 61 per cent of the population are poor, where only 35 per cent have access to adequate sanitation, and life expectancy is only 54 years, the frequent recourse to strikes is cruel and self-centred.

Doctors are making some untenable demands. Their earlier insistence on only doctors being made minister is unreasonable. It is a political-cum-administrative post and other countries don’t subscribe to this. Their opposition to health professionals rising to directorship in public hospitals is also odious.

Demands such as denying other professionals the title of consultants, should be resolved by the government only in the light of best practices worldwide and in the public interest. Doctors have the right to bargain for rewards, but it is unacceptable to oppose the right of others to receive what an employer is ready to offer them.

If doctors from other countries are in Nigeria helping in the terror-torn North; and in Zamfara State where lead poisoning has killed hundreds of children; combating malaria and polio elsewhere, and are mapping strategies to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, this time, therefore, is not when our own doctors should cripple hospitals with strikes!

The primary blame for the mess of course lies with our corrupt, clueless and fickle government that has failed to prioritize health care delivery and implement sensible policies to revamp the rickety system. Even its own National Strategic Health Development Plan 2010-2015 has gone nowhere. Only N264.46 billion was earmarked for health in the 2014 federal budget of N4.69 trillion, even less than the N279.53 billion or 5.7 per cent earmarked from the N4.92 trillion 2013 budget.

Worse, about 80 per cent of this is spent on recurrent items, leaving only 20 per cent for infrastructure in a system that has 20 ill-equipped teaching hospitals, 22 Federal Medical Centres and 13 specialist hospitals across the country. The World Health Organisation faulted the 4.6 per cent of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product contributed by the health sector in 2011 as incapable of reversing the sorry state of health services in the country. The NMA claimed in 2012 that 5,000 Nigerians travelled abroad each month (mostly to India) for medical treatment, costing the country $500 million annually, with India alone raking in $260 million of this. Like the centre, most of the 36 states also fail to adequately fund health, while the governors, legislators and contractors gorge on the treasury.

This trend is unsustainable as the cost in death and human misery is too high. The Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, needs to demonstrate more commitment and urgency in tackling the terrible state of health care services. He and President Goodluck Jonathan, who, characteristically, has remained aloof while the populace groans in misery, need all their persuasive skills to bring the recalcitrant doctors and all health professionals, state governors and other stakeholders to the roundtable to break the deadlock.

The government should stop the cavalier attitude of reneging on agreements. There should be an emergency programme to bring back many of the estimated 15,000 Nigerian doctors practicing abroad to join the 25,000 at home. With a doctor-to-patient ratio of 1: 6,400 and only about 3,000 doctors produced locally each year, efforts should be made to reach the WHO standard of 1: 600.

In the meantime, the NMA should call off this strike and pursue the path of dialogue.

The Consultant which doctors become isn't a title


http://www.punchng.com/editorial/doctors-strike-let-sanity-prevail/