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When Pharm. Olumide Akintayo, the president of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria a renowned JOHESU Warlord recently alleged that Nigerian Doctors are trying to force the Hippocratic order of Medicine on other paramedical professionals in Nigeria when they insist that Doctors must continue to lead the medical team. First, as an activist, it made some sense to me, but on second thought, my mind went to World Health Organization (WHO) the United Nations Human Right Arm of Health.
This took me to the year precisely April, 1948 when the man George Brock Chisholm from Canada became the first Director General (DG) of WHO winning with a vote of 46-2. This great man was initially a soldier with Canadian Expeditionary Force, who out of his passion for medicine and because medicine is not hereditary, struggled to earn for himself Doctor of Medicine (MD) from the University of Toronto, he was a renowned Medical Doctor with psychiatry bias. He led WHO till 1953.
To fill the vacancy created by Brock Chisholm’s exit, another manMarcolino Gomes Candau a Brazilian, was elected to head WHO for the next twenty years. He was a medical doctor that graduated from the state of Rio de Janeiro, University of Brazil and Johns Hopkins University.
When Gomes Candau left in 1973, another man a Danish Medical Doctor Halfan Mahler was made the DG of WHO. He was to give us the historic Alma-Ata Declaration, and led the organization for the next fifteen years.
After the exit of Mahler in 1988, there came another medical doctor from Japan by name Hiroshi Nakajima who graduated from medicine at the Tokyo Medical University . it is of importance to note that when Hiroshi was employed in 1994 at WHO, he was the scientist in charge of Drug Evaluation and monitoring which led to his being made in 1976, the Head of WHO Drug Policies and Management where he pioneered the concept of today’s essential drugs.
In Nigeria today, if a doctor who by training been endowed to be versatile in drugs and therapeutics is made the head of such parastatal, JOHESU will call for earthquake, it has become a crime in Nigeria for a doctor to oversee the council that formulates the training of nurses or even hospital cleaners.So sad!!
After Hiroshi’s exit in 1998 came another Medical Colossus, the Norwegian Iron lady Gro Harlem Brundtland who headed WHO from 1998 to 2003. Brundtland’s first choice of carrier was neither to be an Environmentalist or Politician, but to be a doctor like her father. She was a Specialist in Rehabilitation Medicine and is good to note that this lady served three terms as Norways Prime Minister.
In 2003, another new head was appointed to lead WHO, the great Dr Lee Gong-Wook. Lee was the first Korean to lead an international agency. A medical doctor who also obtained a medical degree at Seoul National University. Lee tenure was rudely cut short by his untimely death in 2006.
Following the sudden death of Dr Lee, another acting head was appointed to lead WHO from May 2006 to January 2007 by name Anders Nordstrom. Also Anders was a medical graduate of karolinska Institut Sweden, who prior his DG appointment was WHO’s Assistant DG and has a background that combines development experience in the field, National and International Health Policy and Planning, and Strategic leadership.After this short interregnum of Lee’s death , a substantive DG, Dr Margaret Chan was appointed and she resumed duties in January, 2007. Dr Chan who is the current WHO, was previously trained as a Home Economist, but for her love and passion for medicine, had to go to the University of Western Ontario for her medical circumcision where she qualified as a medical doctor in 1977 after which she joined the Hong Kong government in 1978 as a Medical Officer.
So why the noise about the imperialistic nature of Nigerian Medical Association? Why is it that the black Africans only way of reaching the outer space is by witchcraft? What is wrong in our continent in doing the needful in encouraging our scientist to first gain the expertise that will aid us build a spacecraft? How can our noble brothers and amiable sisters who are Pharmacists and Nurses choose to form gangsterish association with hospital cleaners, laborers, porters and security men whose sole aim is to find a way of bringing down the laboring Hippocratic order of medicine in this amorphous assembly of JOHESU (Joint Health Sector Union) or simply put “Joe Hates U”?While one cannot be blind to the corruption being seen among the various heads of our health institutions where some Medical Directors have become even more administratively horrible and financially corrupt like the mere rogues that abound in our political landscape, that will never be allowed for the excuse to water down the hierarchical order of the noble medical profession.
Like in any other profession of the world, there are men who have administrative and academic excellence as their watch word, such doctors should be given leadership positions instead of the government trying to turn the revered medical profession into a banana republic where porters want to be called medical consultants in “medical porterring” thereby confusing our already disoriented patients.
Let’s be proud of who we are in this nation as professionals and strive to be who we we want to be through the legally available means.
If WHO can as a standard United Nations Health Organization have a respected order of who becomes who, why is our health ministry getting confused on how to maintain order in the health sector.
Even if wishes were horses, Catholic Catechists can never be called Archbishops!! Ka Chineke Mezie Okwu!!!!
Dr Korie

dojumav: Walahi ... Common sense u no get

Your must be a member of the gangsteric amorphours body called JOHESU, or simply put; Joe Hates U

Once upon a time, a magistrate asked for assistants to be employed in a
bid to make his services more efficient. After some time, they got so
good in their specific tasks, they felt
indispensable and proficient enough to do all the magistrate did. They
began to agitate to bear the titles "Esquire" and "SAN". They began to
blackmail a weak government seeking re-election.
They went on strike and locked up the courts to prevent the magistrate
from working (knowing that left alone, the magistrate could still see
cases).
These assistants also went to the media and began to mislead the
public. The government
without proper consultation or consideration of "international best
practices" agreed to the
demands of these assistants due to their large number (and monetary
influence?).
So the magistrate went on strike and left them to attend to cases.
Haba, Magistrate! Why should you have gone on strike? Here's the
reason why:An analysis of JOHESU:
Nurses: Most nurses always wanted to be nurses. They love their
profession and work closely with doctors despite the often overbearing
attitudes of
these doctors. They appear not to be too keen on this JOHESU fight as
they lack the inferiority complex displayed by other members. Within
their ranks is a battle between the traditional
Registered Nurses and the university trained B.Sc Nurses. This may
contribute to their disinterest. A lot of them are married to doctors, have
dated doctors or have doctors as children.
PS: "Doctor" refers to a medical doctor who has sworn the Hippocratic
oath or a similar oath and carries a licence to practice Medicine.
Pharmacists:
These professionals are university trained. Unfortunately, in the
government sector, their
role appears to have been largely limited to procuring, stocking and
dispensing of medications. Their occasional attempts to involve
themselves in patient care is often tainted by the mutual suspicion
between them and the clinician (doctor) directly responsible for the
patients.The Pharm.D (Doctor of Pharmacy) programme is currently the standard
in the USA but is under some controversy in Nigeria as other university
academics (excluding medical doctors) are unhappy by what appears to
be a shortcut to a Ph.D equivalent.
Some pharmacists want(ed) to be medical doctors. In some pharmacies,
they are already masquerading as doctors.
Some are quite satisfied being what they always dreamt of.
Optometrists:
These are trained in the University to measure refractive errors and
prescribe lenses (glasses). In addition, they receive clinical training in
management of simple eye disorders.
Ophthalmologists (medical doctors specializing in eye disorders) are
inadequate in number and are
more focussed on eye diseases. Optometrists provide valuable services
as primary care providers and even ophthalmologists go to them
for glasses...but...
They are not doctors in the medical sense. Some universities run 6 year
courses and award O.D. (Doctor of Optometry).
However, when it comes to major eye disease and eye surgery, only the
ophthalmologistis licensed to treat.
Optometrists are doing well financially based on their private practices.They are not key militants in the JOHESU saga.
Physiotherapists:
These relatively new and few entrants into Nigeria's health sector are
University-trained to carry out physical rehabilitation of patients. Some
also run private gyms.
Depending on their training institution, they receive bachelor's or
"doctorate" degrees. Most of them will confess to have chosen to read
Medicine
initially. Like the general public, most of them were not aware of their
current profession when they got university admission.
Their association is rapidly becoming one of the more militant JOHESU
affiliates.
Medical Laboratory Scientists (Technologists?)
These are the arrow-heads of JOHESU. As a group, they have the free
time, the resources and the lack of professionalismand empathy for
suffering patients needed to start this controversy.
These staff are usually not university trained as their programmes are
run by accredited teaching hospitals. They obtain memberships and
fellowships of the institutes of Laboratory Science (or Technology)
allowing them to work in Pathology laboratories.Virtually all of these folks had the ambition of being medical doctors but
could not meet the requirements.
In better countries than Nigeria, laboratories are headed by research
scientists (in research institutes) and by consultant pathologists (in
hospitals). Research scientists are typically Ph.D holders while
consultant pathologists are medical doctors with postgraduate
specializationsin Pathology.
In Nigeria, they are quick to claim they do all the work in the
laboratories of government hospitals.
In their private practices, most masquerade as doctors, prescribing
antibiotics and other drugs after spurious "Typhoid" tests.
Having grown wings, they fired the first salvo by declaring their right to
perform accreditation for all labs in Nigeria including side-labs in private
hospitals.
The next issue was preventing resident doctors in training from
accessing the labs to carry out procedures (yet they claim they do all
the work).
It got to the point, doctors were physically harassed by laboratory
scientists and hounded by the Police and SSS on the instigation of these
technologists. Luckily, most security agencies quickly washed their hands
off this matter.Interestingly, when JOHESU members (or their family) get ill, they never
go to their fellow JOHESU members for care or advice! They always look
privately for the same doctor they insult publicly. And the doctors still
treat them specially "as colleagues".
This JOHESU problem appears to be a problem of the teaching
hospitals. State-owned hospitals and private/institutional centres would
not condone this needless rabble-rousing and jostling for primacy.
Nigerians shouldn't permit persons without direct involvement in patient-
care add to the many problems already facing our healthcare system.
Nigeria is not the only country running a teaching hospital system. Let's
look at the successful models in other countries and make things work.
That way, all these unnecessary crises in our health system will end.

simply_me: Do the needful. Fu ck him.

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Many peeps we think are very educated knw very little abt dia health, most nigerians dnt even make budget for dia health in a month, health issues are usu in miscallaneous or emergency expenses, no wonder our people are very religious and patronise d nearest chemist for sm expired meds wen they fall sick

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@Enoquin, pls can u tell me of a nice hotel and a cinema one can go to, smwhr close to whr 1 cld shop lightly, great food, and hw much do 1 budget pa night for the hotels? We want to spend more times togeda rather dn going to museums etc

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My problem and annoyance dse days is the way some churches tend to deceive ladies, doctors depend on God for wisdom and guidiance durin such surgeries, bt y wld pastors make d doctor look bad most times wen he guarantees safe delivery only by cs. There are absolute and relative indications for cs, every child cn be delivered by womanly delivery, bt d question is 'wat wld be d outcome of such delivery'? Is the baby alive? If alive, does he run d risk of cerebral palsy and other physical challenges. Women be wise, and pastors pls work wt d doctor, his aim is to save lives

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I seen midwives takin deliveries so many many times and have taken some a couple of times, trust me the sight is horrible and painful for husbands and mothers and the rate of women with botherline pelvis is gradually rising and also other indications for operative delivery. Many of this kids delivered by such mothers may end up with cerebral palsy, fractures and even some soft tissue injuries, sometimes death of baby plus or minus death of the mother. With CS, in less than 30 mins u have ur child and thankGod for spinal anaesthesia which can ensure the woman is awake all through there by no risk of aspiration.
Recently, Ȋ̝̊̅ saw a 13yr old girl with very small pelvis rejecting Cs and her relatives and husband supporting her until she developed VVF and also lost the baby.
Now my question is why do nigerian women always reject operative delivery even when it is very obvious they cn hv a normal delivery?

Our health sector is gettin worse by the day, politicians takin off abroad to go seek medical attention, ARD are calling F̶̲̅Õ̳͡я̅ strike S̶̲̥̅Ơ̴̴̴̴̴̴͡ as attention can reach our pubic hospitals whc is for the masses, so backward thinkin Nigerians refer to ARD members as postgraduate students, its a pity, everywhr in the world medical doctors are professionals who continue to share there experiences and do further research to preserve life, its a pity sm peeps are so backwards and unappreciative