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the guy run oo,u people are not nice.he was so entertaining.

phantom: started in '09 WITHOUT primaries,then to part one,and part two in six years.

read in between the lines since you are intelligent.

Doc,dat dude is extremely pained.its like a dog snatched something precious to him

McStoic: LOL....you want me to smile? Government didn't pay my tuition but I have gotten many times out of government than you can ever think of getting, legitimately or illegitimately. Face your front and talk to your fellow urchins. Once again, whatever is good for the ox is also good for the gander.



















I don't expect a mere medical student like you to understand my drift even after all these clues........

What,are u 12?u cn at least be matured about this.#smile,we r not throwing punches.we r clarifying issues.Just gather enough emotional capacity to deal with this issue.ok.peace

phantom: that is the message the FG passed along

But they don't have the common sense to reason that way.
I spoke with one of their ogas,dude was like.these residents done go Bleep us up oo.now we can't just embark on strike anyhow.

McStoic: Reading between the lines should be easy na. Guess you need the government to sponsor you on dat too. Boy face your front..

Bro,ur still not smiling.i beliv u attended private schools nd FG never paid your own tuition.sorry about that.but there z no need to be pained.

I laugh when I hear these guys make so much noise about residency for other health workers.Even the one on ground is not properly funded.the health budget keeps fluctuating between 3-7 percent instead of the >/=15 percent all African leaders agreed to.Do u think this govt is ready to spend all that money on ya'll.
Again,we are all important,but we are not all equal,its a fact we like to deny,from inception,across nations and borders,from saotome to mauritius.Men are not equal.
The input of a nurse in any health care setting cannot be compared with that of records officer,but they r both very vital.Importance should never be mistaken for equality.because we r all important but it doesn't make us all equal.

McStoic: Hahahahaha......wake up from your NARD induced illusions already. As it were, you guys have been the government's pet project, while being unappreciative of the fact that the residency program was designed to favour you all. Power has just changed hands, key into the present and stop perambulating in surrealism. It's a common knowledge that JOHESU are not greedy. They seek for what is attainable and pragmatic unlike you comedians.

For instance, if JOHESU were to proceed on any strike now, I can simply tell you in advance that one of the reasons would be to be treated equally in terms of residency program. As in sponsoring every concerned health personnel across board. This already is rational in itself. While at that, get it into your understanding that JOHESU are more credible than you all due to the fact that they are a recognized union. Being affiliated to the NLC renders their actions extra solid. Cue in to the fact that JOHESU are permanent staffs unlike you students who are still totally dependent on the government.

Dunno why you some of you so called doctors hate thinking rationally. I hate to always remind myself that you guys are supposed to be well informed.

Bro are u this pained?well my point is if what just happened means the tails of doctors hv bin clipped,we could as well say the same about JOHESU.Unless we join hands,we ll neva really get anything out of this government.
I won't stoop so low to exchange words with u sire,because your comment sire smells of beef.Not gonna give u d satisfaction of venting your anger on me.#staycalm and smile sire,it's not a war zone,its an hospital.

If FG could sack the residents,i wonder why it won't sack the whole of JOHESU wen d tym finally comes.

A GOVERNMENT THAT CANNOT BE TRUSTED

Now,let us critically examine some of the claims of the government against doctors .The government said that they have addressed more than 90% of doctors' demands. My knowledge of mathematics thought me that 90% of 24 will be 21.6,which is approximately 22. Now,adding the term ' MORE ', that means the government has met up with the 24 demands of doctors since the difference between 24 and 22 is just 2,which is infinitesimal. Let the government show us how they arrived at their own 90% since all these demands were published on the pages of our national newspapers.

It is quite regrettable that doctors are dealing with a government that is vacillating that cannot be trusted. Imagine a scenario where the government will issue a circular to doctors in the morning and in the afternoon the same government will issue a conflicting circular to JOHESU and when doctors protest,another circular will be issued to doctors in the evening and this cycle continues. My friend derisively suggested that,'it is like this federal government carries the circular in their cars etc and when there is any need,they will edit them and issue out.'

Remember that NMA wanted to embark on a nationwide strike early January this year but this same government pleaded that six months be given to them that they were going to address the doctors' demands but what did we see at the end? It is still the same government that came out to challenge NMA for a public debate to be presided over by our mostly uninformed Nigerian public,who are the real victims of the ongoing strike. As the lawyers will always say,'No one will be judge over his own case or a case one has interest in.' That is one of the principles of natural law,Nemo iudex in causa sua,but our honourable minister for health never considered that when he challenged doctors to a 'duel' so that the uninformed(or do I say,misinformed) victims of the strike will preside over the contest. What another error in reasoning? In view of the above,believe you me, this same government will still disappoint the lecturers in our colleges of education and polytechnics who suspended their strike in order to give the new minister for education time to study their demands. These Nigerian masses that the government and their JOHESU close friends have made to believe that Nigerian doctors are cruel,insensitive,wicked,inconsiderate etc will eventually be the final recipients of this power politics,if not now then later.

aztruth: you almost got me confused, had to go thru the post you quoted looking för where 90 percent appeared. No mention was made of 90 %!

I spoke of FG responses and solutions to the demands.

I have taken time trying to explain the issues that led up to FG suspending residency. FG just made the only feasible Choice they had in this whole health Crisis.

Let's all take a step back and look at this issues objectively. How did we ever get to this point? How can a govt suspend residency programme? The only reason could be if there was no other options. So, the next question would be; why were there no other options available? And truely there was no other option! Drs are more central to health care delivery and as a result seems to have a better bargaining power even with govt than others. This does not however mean that they can get anything thing they ask even when doing so would make the government Crush others who also have a part to play in any system that must work.

for example: JOHESU raises alarm and says the office of the CMAC has no legal framework and that the provision for the office of the CMD does not make it exclusive to Drs. [If JOHESU went on strike and said FG must remove all CMDs and CMACs because. ........ then you would be rest assured that the Strike would have been a very long one if not fatal as well bearing im mind the urgent need to return health care services to full functioning in the face of ebola at least from FG perspective]. FG refers the issues to a committee which is already working to bring harmony in the health sector. JOHESU says OK. NMA wakes up and declares strike and one öf the conditions being that the post of the CMD must remain theirs and that govt must issue a circular to that effect. Also govt must not abolish the office of the CMAC but instead of just one CMAC govt must increase the number of CMACs to three or four depending on the hospital and should immediately issue circulars to that effect. These are issues pending before an ad hoc committee already, FG tell NMA. NMA says no and insists on strike.
I can take these issues and analyse them one after the other and you will see why FG painfully had to thread this un popular path.

NMA also wants govt to overturn court decisions on the award of consultancy to health professionals other than Drs. How do you intend on achieving that?......................... IF YOU WERE GEJ WHAT WOULD YOU DO?


BESIDES FG IS SUSPENDING NOT ABOLISHING RESIDENCY ....... AND I THINK YOU GUYS WILL BE RECALLED.........HOW SOON IS WHAT I DON'T KNOW

Are u speaking of the committee which it's chairman resigned because of lack of funds and commitment on FGs side?this committee failed as soon as it started.FG should stop playing both Johesu nd NMA nd solve this thing at once.if they acceed to NMAs demands today,johesu ll embark on another strike and FG ll start issuing MOUs again as usual.If FG is serious it should find a lasting solution to this issue.

aztruth: House Drs programme has not been suspended.

There has been rumours for quite a while before residency suspension that it was resident doctors that were preventing NMA from calling off the strike. Some residents even said if NMA calls off the strike residents will still continue with the strike. Guess the FG heard the rumours too! THAT'S WHY AM GUESSING RESIDENT DOCTORS GOT THE AX. WHICH ALSO LEAVES A POSSIBLE INSINUATION, NMA SOLD NARD TO FG IN SOME WAY.

M glad u said rumours.But they r totally false.NMA didn't sell NARD out in fact they r fully backing them.
Residents got d axe because FG was desperate to divide NMA,which is not going to happen.FGs move unfortunately won't end the strike,it will further prolong it.

ehissi: Let me guess!! NMA is serious by sitting at home while ebola is killing folks including one of their own, a female medical doctor who's parents are complaining that she has been left there to die due to lack of attention by who? Serious doctors of D NMA whose president resigned because he couldn't get serious doctors to work and save lives. Minister of health scraps residency all of a sudden doctors finally left home nd R on D streets asking for their jobs back. Guess where they took their protest to? NMA office, if it was a consensus agreement to strike shrbi they woould have gone to Ministry of health office to protest. Come and assist in this ebola menance them say Sam.

All it takes is brainstorming and one well rounded act of legislature. And doctors can be made to pay as well as sign an agreement that can get them barred from D practice is such crap like this repeats itself cause as far as I am concerned these folks R D most greedy, unpatriotic folks I know. My relations a good number of them R doctors, they want to work NMA is threatening them with sanction simply because of their greed. Let them stay at home. Pay for your residncy while consultants supervise or sit as Medical officers or better yet, go abroad and do residency and see how easy it is .......mstchew

Let them wait. Change is coMing.....

In case ur not informed NMA is not sitting at home.They didn't sit during d bomb blasts nd dey r nt sitting now.if your govt is serious,things won't turn out dis way.We won't evn hv ebola to battle with.
U want them to troop into teaching hospitals for ebola?ebola is managed in a quarantine centre nd NMA is already supporting with that.All d doctors I know are in support of this strike.dunno about think residents ll pay for residency??biggest joke of the millennium!it shows u don't get wat residency is about.
M glad u said residency abroad is not easy abroad,but it's not impossible.med school is not easy,yet dey r doctors today.

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aztruth: If government privatizes all the hospitals today, it
will be because of in house fighting and un
reasonable NMA demands. It is easier for gov to
sell all the hospitals than to answer your prayers
against your fellow workers who are not drs.
Even suspending residency is easier than the
demands NMA is making. FG is just trying to
follow the easier path!
re appraise your demands objectively and see if
FG will not answer you.
The problem is not the salary increment or
improved facilities that the FG is concern over, It
is the un reasonable request to subdue everyone
in the health sector who is not a Doctor
If ASUU had told FG that no one apart from its
members be promoted to the post of registrar,
they would still have been on strike or all the
universities privatized by now.
You Drs make demands even against court orders
like the issue of other health workers becoming
Consultants. You also want FG to take decision
on some other issues which are before competent
law courts or yet to be determined before a duely
appointed committee for the purpose thereof.
HOW DO YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE ALL THESE?
SURGEON GENERAL was thrown out in national
confab and if my memory serves me right even in
national Assembly yet you expect FG to
unilaterally appoint one even without the backing
of the law. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?
The nation assemblies accelerated the passage of
the National health bill because it wad one of
your demandS.
FG tells you they don't have money to pay all
your arrears as agreed in January ( even though i
think FG was not telling the truth) but they will
pay you for two months and then capture the rest
in next years budget.
FG says issue of MD and CMAC are already
before an adhoc committee, maintain status quo
pendin determination, JOHESU says OK, NMA
says no way!
NMA wants scheme of service altered to stop
others from becoming directors while allowing
them to start their carreers in civil Service on GL
13 step 3. Govt refers NMA to relevant schemes
of service.
I can go on analysing NMA DEMANDS and govt
Responses and solutions...........
FELLOW NIGERIANS, WHAT MORE SHOULD FG
DO?
what else.........

Sir u said 90percent demands have been MET,yet u said FG will not answer NMAs demands,that it's easier to suspend residency than acceding to NMAs demands.
What a contradictory message.Are u a politician.
What u jst said means FG is politicising dis issue nd ur in FULL support.
"FG has met deir key demands but it's easier to suspend residency Dan meeting d demands,so it was suspended"

NMA Strike, What Is The FG Doing To Reopen Our Hospitals

Every time the Minister of health is asked about the
strike
he'll say that 90% of NMA demands have been
met. No one
ever asks him to explain what 90% meant; some
circulars and
MoU. These are documents they offer you and turn
round to
contravene and debase. In January they offered
circulars
and MoU, we took them and called off threat of
strike, 7
months later the circulars were never implemented
and the
MoU have been desecrated by this same
government. Now
MoU and Circulars are no longer sacred
government
documents. We want commencement of
implementation. This
government lies a lot. Today they said they don't
have money
to implement but 6 months earlier when granting
the
circular we urged them to send supplementary
budget for it's
implementation. The government agents said our
business
was to do our work as they will pay from SERVICE
WIDE
VOTE. Who is fooling who? Isreal despite being in a
constant
war zone did not sack her doctors after 5 months
of strike.
All through this strike, doctors under NMA directive
have
always scrambled to take care of bomb blasts
victims in the
North. Several NGOs commended this gesture, did
your
government comment on these? People are
bamboozled into
thinking that all doctors are actually needed to
contain
ebola (which by the way this government stood by
and watch
fly into Nigeria). That’s cheap propaganda.All they
need are
infectious disease specialists and the public health
physicians.Ebola will also not be managed in
Teaching
Hospitals, we need quarantine centres. Not that
pako (raw
wood) mama-put structure at Mainland hospital
Lagos. After
N1.9b release all we have are wooden structures
no airflow
controlled tents. No citizen have asked government
questions on these. NMA have volunteered to send
necessary
specialists to the quarantine centres. Where are the
quarantine centres in your state? We don't need
Surgeons,
Gynaecologists, Dermatologist, etc for ebola
containment.
It's all cheap propaganda. Note that in this strike
NMA is
going for broke. We don’t care what Nigerians think
because
they are weak. People that worship those that
acquired
riches by stealing from them (Nigerians). We want
the health
sector privatised or order restored. People that set
up
Yayale Ahmed committee to study international
best
practices in health sector and make suggestions on
way
forward then turn around and undermine the same
committee, rendering their recommendations
useless before
they started (after spending so much to fund
it).Nigerians'
capacity for selective amnesia amazes me.Well, I
am always
consoled by the fact that every population only
gets the
leadership they deserve.

Most people who have commented on the recent sack of the resident doctors by
President Jonathan do not understand how wrong he got it.
Firstly,the strike was not embarked upon by the Resident Doctors(governed under
NARD) but by the Nigerian Medical Association which happens to be the parent body of
all medical practitioners. The resident doctors in all Teaching Hospitals are the engine
room of the hospital,the Consultants are merely supervisors. The president should have
gone for the job of the consultants and M.O's who are the primarily the leaders of
NMA,not the residents. To illustrate,its like ASUU being on strike and the president
decides to sack only junior lecturers leaving the senior lecturers and profs that control
ASUU.
Secondly,since residency program was the reason why Teaching hospitals were
created,since the program has been suspended indefinitely it means that every
Teaching Hospital should also be shut down indefinitely.
Thirdly,this indefinite suspension also included House officers! What he doesn't know is
that house job is a compulsory one year program which every medical student MUST
undertake before he or she graduates fully to become a medical doctor. By doing
this,he has automatically suspended the graduation of all final year medical students
nationwide!

ehissi: When I see things like this, it reminds me of the battles that led to D formation of ANAN to D chagrin of ICAN which is even now seemingly more relevant than ICAN now. People may wonder how this relates to this issue, let's leave that for a different thread; what I find bizzarre is that the NMA isn't even trying to deny what D federal government said in its letter suspending this residency program; these are as follows:-

1.) That it had implemented up to 90% of what was required by NMA in its lists of demands.

2.) That D doctors where paid salaries as well as all allowances including hazard allowance in full even though they had sat at home for over a month (tell me what hazard can come out of sitting at home on strike) as a measure of good faith. Yet NMA didn't budge on D strike.

3.) Eminent persons where called in by the FG to negotiate on its behalf, yet NMA didn't budge. An excerpt from D suspension letter showing FG's represntatives and D pain of goverment.

"These personalities included the governor of Delta State, the secretary to the government of the federation, members of the National Assembly (especially the Senate and House committees on Heath), the head of the civil service of the federation, chairman of the National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission, the senior special assistant to the president on public affairs, the honourable ministers of health and labour and productivity, the honourable minister of state for health, presidents and registrars of the National Post-graduate Medical College of Nigeria, the West African College of Physicians and West African College of Surgeons, traditional rulers, eminent and senior members of the medical profession, as well as past executives of the NMA.
It should be stressed that the Federal Government has implemented more than 90 percent of its responsibilities as signed by both parties. At the conclusion of each meeting, the NMA promised to call off the strike but would renege." U see how confused NMA is?

4.) D last straw was its president, NMA of course. This is an excerpt on his resignation saga as contained in D
vanguard newspaper.

"FOLLOWING the confusion that trailed conflicting statements regarding the suspension of medical doctors’ 40-day strike, Dr Kayode Obembe has resigned as the national president of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).

Obembe issued a statement on Thursday that the doctors had suspended the strike but he was countered by some officers of the NMA, who insisted that the industrial action was still on.

Dr Kayode Obembe
Reacting to the issue Friday, Obembe, in a statement he entitled: ‘Clarification,’ said: “There has been a request for clarification about the two postings from NMA secretariat on NMA blog. I want to make it categorically clear that I stand by every letter of the document I signed-‘that the strike was suspended.’
And since upon my integrity and honour, I cannot continue to drive the doctrine that ‘strike continues,’ I hereby tender my letter of resignation as NMA president. What I have written, I have written.” "

The past NMA president called off D strike in D wake of D ebola outbreak, NMA merchant doctors said no way so D president for D sake of his own integrity as a medical doctor resigned, NMA Merchant doctors say make them die if we don't get all we want and more. FG gives U 90% and even pays U full pay with hazard allowance isn't enough for U to stop D strike while negotiation goes on as to when D rest 10% go show. Greedy folks

This is enough to signify that D NMA has run outta control; despite the Presidential declaration of a National Public Health Emergency on Ebola Disease which had united the entire country in the efforts to contain the disease, the NMA who should take leadership role in the fight against Ebola disease is now the most unsupportive.

All efforts by Government to contain this disease are being frustrated by the continued industrial strike action of the NMA.

Also realise that govt simply suspended the program not scrap it. So for those who think its not possible constitutionally, think again. Buhari tried to scrap it in D 80% not suspend that D difference between what happened in D 80's and now.

I pray that this action by government will pave D way for other medical and life scientist to create a parallel bodies that will ensure D protection of lives because NMA is selling off its members as a bunch of merchant doctors who know nothing of the hippocrites oath.

One thing anyone who is willing to be frank will take away from this strike and other forms of industrial action by Labour unions is that they always strike about D conditions of service of their members and not D quality of service. D rationale being that when D condition of service of their member is improved automatically D quality of service will improve but this is false.

Labour Unions/Professional bodies will never strike nor suggest ways through ïndustrial actions that will improve quality of service because actual quality of service delivery is their responsiblity (Goodluck can only send what they need he won't administer it) and it will affect close to 75% of it members and that will pit them against their fellows. U will see even if government gives them all they want, D medical services of government won't improve and if U ask NMA that is calling itself a body of professionals they will still blame it on government as if president Jonathan or his wife are at fault inspite all D power and recognition they have from FG to make changes and recommendations all they want is less working hours and more money.

Let them be paying for it like D way law students pay for law school and let FG setup parallel bodies that will protect D interest of service delivery of others in D industry including D recipients of such service and FG should take D bull by D horns in handling it medical services that way Nigerian medical services in D country will improve. God bless Nigeria

Fortunately residency is not like law school,residents make up the bulk of the doctors workforce in teaching hospitals,they r not just training,they are working.
And there z no where in d world residents pay for residency.maybe in Pluto tho.
If FG is so trustworthy,why are they still on strike?why is ASUU trying to come bk on strike.This FG loves MOUs which they never implement.they signed MOUs in January nd NMA is still on strike because of d same issues.This FG can't be trusted,what NMA is saying is they should start implementing,show some seriousness,not stupid MOUs that ll eventually amount to nothing.
NMA has denied dese purported 90% implementation countless times,u don't expect them to put it every letter,do u
Bottomline is FG is unserious about this issue.

ikennahill: funny Nigerian Medical doctors,u want your own residency but you are fighting others from doing fellowship in their own field(not medicine).It baffles me how these medical doctors think.Some are saying it is war with government,do they know the power government have? Hmmmm my brother go and read about government in time of war .I love this thing done by our president.Medical doctors in 9ja don chew too much.

You are fighting every other health care professional from growing to their peak,from been directors,from been consultants in their own field,from getting their allowances,from becoming CMDs,from further training,from existing.

[b]You are Commissioner of health,ministers of health,perm sec ministry of health in Federal and 97% of states,you are directors of medical service in federal and state ministry,if FMOH and atste Ministry of health have 5 directors you have 4 directors out of five,you are head of HMBs in most states,you are chairmen of most Federal and state Hospital and health related boards and parastattals,including Nafdac,primary health,[/b]etc.

You are MDs,head of most departments including colonization of some of them by force eg optometrist and ophthalmologist,etc,you even want to head medical lab,account dept,administration,medical record,etc.This is not enough after leading(was it actual leading?) and heading everywhere you turn around to say our system is in shamble because of a student that refuse to learn though government pay for his training,his salaries even while in training and will pay him higher on graduation.

WHY IS GOVT NOW EMPLOYING 490 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OFFICERS NOW? THIS HAVE BEEN ADVOCATED AND APPROVED FOR LONG BUT NMA HAVE BEEN SITTING ON THIS USING THEIR VARIOUS CONNECTION LIKE THEY DO TO OTHER HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS

.NMA COLONISED MASTERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH(MPH) IN NIGERIA,BUT PUBLIC HEALTH IS FOR EVERYBODY INCLUDING GRADUATES OF MASS COMMUNICATION ,HISTORY,ARCHITECTURE,ETC.IN 2011 THE BEST MPH STUDENT IN UCT WAS AN UGANDAN THAT READ MASS COMMUNICATION IN UGANDA.AS IF THIS IS NOT ENOUGH SOME OF THE SCHOOLS IN NIGERIA RENAMED MPH TO BE COMMUNITY HEALTH FOR NON MBBS MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS TO DIFFERENTIATE THEM FROM MPH WHILE THEY DO THE SAME COURSE,TAKE LECTURES TOGETHER WITH MBBS MPH STUDENTS,TAKES THE SAME EXAM BUT GET DIFFERENT CERTIFICATE.TODAY EBOLA IS HERE WITH US AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OFFICERS ARE TO BE EMPLOYED,THEN WHERE ARE THOSE MDCAN PUB HEALTH CONSULTANTS.
JONATHAN I DOFF MY HAT FOR YOU.IT IS 2 MONTHS NOW MBBS DOCTORS ARE ON STRIKE AND WE ARE STILL ALIVE.GOD WILL KEEP US ALIVE TILL HE DECIDE TO CALL US HOME ANY DAY HE WISH.

KUDOS TO GEJ

We r tired of epistles filled with lies,beef,misconceptions,we r tired of explaining wat the strike is about and not about.if u can't get wat it's about.we r really done explaining.it gets really frustrating.NMA has now become nuc that changes mph to commhealth.anybody can do mph in d country I live which is nigeria.dunno 'bout you

enny09: The problem is that they won't listen due to their superman nature, maybe they thought GEJ just woke up today to cancel residency program, he had planned it far back as October last year, the former NMA president is aware, that was why the minister of health was warning NMA, not to let FG do the worst

Even "if" dey cancel residency,doctors are professionals who can move anywhere in d world,it's nt gonna be easy for some,but dey will survive quite alright.u knw who ll suffer?my nigerian pipo.

Johncuppa: see urself. Gej traveling to U.k to see Nigeria doc tors? Wen u cannt even gv hope to d hopeless Sawyer. Wen did Nig doctors becme Ben Carsons?

Actually dere z nuttn to write to u.But really Patrick sawyerd you knw pipo r dead becos of dt guy.nd ur here blaming docs for dat too.*claps for you*ur soo damn smart.
Nd hey ask ur naija frnds dt seek health care abroad,dey see quite a lot of naija docs*winks*

Some pipo are not worth arguing with really,or worth educating at all.Fact is there aren't enough doctors to man our hospitals talk less of military doctors(mostly manned by civilians).MBBS Graduates?m still laffin at that one.
These pipo simply don't understand d situation of things.they just come here to comment.My great Nigerian pipo,ignorance as usual.

firedup: just be fooling yourself,better go and collect your sack letter 1st thing morrow morning and start applying for locum,others have already called the MD/CMD on the phone to secure their slot.sorry arse doctor

I guess u hv to call pipo names b4 making ur point.to assume am a resident tho,tht was slow.but I wdnt expect more from sme1 like u

enny09: Let see who is dumb between NMA and president Jonathan at end of the month when no alert for you, and mind you residency will take off later with new laws and will cover other health professionals in the health sector, but till then you are on your own.

Take off with which doctors?trust me d only thing dt ll happen is d usual "about turn"wen he reverses his decision.until den d film is interesting

Nigerians are so funny.they are so swift in saying docs should return to work cos of ebola yet they say docs are terrible,dey r killers.why do we want killers bk at work?
Your govt officials earn fat salaries,yet we claim the nation doesn't hv money to train her doctors.
Unserious nation,unserious citizens.

ANBAKO: My question is what is residency? Who is a resident Doctor? What is their role in the hospital? Is it what is also known as housemanship? Need enlightment.....thanks

Residency is a form of on-the-job training for doctors to specialise in whatever fields dey so choose.ur cardiologists,pediatricians,surgeons all did residency.Resident docs r d docs doing residency.their role in d hospital goes from patient care to research.they are typically d ones dat spend most tym with d patients.d consultants oversees deir work.and
It's not d same as housemanship which is for newly qualified doctors.Resident doctors have done housemanship,youth corps and are training in a specialty to offer a specialised form of care

ogawisdom: Do u ve sense at all, D president is d employer n drs r employee. Drs r d highest paid ppl in this country n yet they won't do their work strike today n strike tomoro. Go to a teaching hosp n see wen they come to work n wen they leave. Nigerian doctors r jst pathetic. Most of they ll reapply for d job even begging wen they r fired.
They r only interested in their private hospital where they finish ordinary nigerians wit their charges. Very few nigerian docs r committed to their work with govt.

Lemme correct something right dere.doctors are not the highest paid ppl in nigeria.maybe in america,yes.but nigeria,they are not even close

Well,doctors are doctors.we need dem no matter how much we deny it
Jonas move will only only encourage d already terrible brain drain.dere ll be dearth of specialists on d coming years nd d already mediocre health system will get even worse.
But then who ll suffer,d docs?nope,fg?nope.its u and I.
So we can all rant here,curse d doctors,hail jonathan.when he gets sick he travels UK to see dose same nigerian docs we so condemn.
Some docs are bad,yes.arent dere bad lawyers?military persons?bankers?
U say dey r proud,why not,if you are the shiznit.They say "it's not bragging if it's true",ryt?

Confirmed now that the FGN has released a lettrer to the ministry of
health directing it to
Suspend d residency programme
CMDs to sack all resident with 1 month salary in lieu
Board to ensure hospital runs with locus medical officers renewable 6monthly
Consultants are left out
Divide and RULE
Casual ideation of medical profession

Way forward
1. EDM immediately
2. NMA directs MDCAN to embark on strike over unconstitutional sack of
our students and stoppage of specialization in the nation.( the court
case in question do not affect these matter)
3. NMA direct MDCN to withdraw training of medical students
4. NMA directs all doctors not to pick up any locus job and enforce it
via picketing
5. Any CMD that enforces the sack is black listed
6. Group practice to Cather for our needs to be set up

Callistus Enyuma

deols: What is d requirent for employment as Locum?

None,i guess u jst nid d full MDCN registration

1.its a stupid move because locums can't replace residents expertise,but of course dis is nigeria we r not day interested in quality of patient care.
2.should NMA nd MDCN take drastic steps,we ll hv to import dose locums because no one ll risk it for deir license(s)
3.Residents basically own d hospitals,consultants are not so around,nd interns know so little.
4.Just like d fashola move,it's another bullshit from a govt who can't face nd solve issues