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pls house is NoC 3211 eligible to apply in this current EE...

ferdiii:
How did u know? Ur NOC and points?

thank u so much,i have discovered my bad.misinterpreted this quote -- There are also sub-caps of 1,000 for each of the 50 eligible occupations.---was assuming that its only for the eligible 50, am on it now .my noc is 3211.and is skill category B

Evening guys,,i checked through this site http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/complete-applications.asp and found out that i am not eligible...so what"s next for me?
do i just apply for worker"s permit?

yomifowe:
Bros you have a long way to go o. Your questions can only be answered by you visiting this link.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-how.asp

After reading up, then you can then ask questions based on information you have received.

thanks dear.
i checked through this site http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/complete-applications.asp and found out that i am not eligible...so what"s next for me?
do i just apply for worker"s permit?

ferdimako:
U have to read the thread...that is d key or use Google.

ok,capisce

ferdimako:
Hiya...saw ur pm. Just do IELTS GT and pick nothing less than 19points and start ur ECA.

THANKS BRO FOR YOUR PROMPT RESPONSE.
HOW DO I GET ABOUT THE TEST,AM A TOTAL NOVICE AND ALSO MY PROFESSION IS WHICH NOC NUMBER AND HOW DO I CHECK IT.
PLS DO BEAR WITH MY IGNORANCE.

ANBAKO:
To move forward please answer the following questions

Highest level of education
Occupation & years of experience
Do you have family Member in Canada
Age

Goodluck

Highest level of education---B.MLS(BACHELOR IN MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE)
Occupation & years of experience---- CIVIL SERVANT AND 9 YEARS
Do you have family Member in Canada---NO
Age--34

am a medical lab technologist currently practicing but will love to move permanently to canada with my wife and daughter.pls dear forumites am i qualified,how do i get about it.thanks

Demdem: [s][/s]

Johesu fool, am no doctor neither am I in the sectorand I have stated that clearly. My profession has nothing to do with topic. If u believe otherwise then that's ur cup of tea and simply can't help ur stupidity . Shove back ur advise into ur anus.

Go and sin no more

Finally, the truth is coming out! Even the real doctors are now confessing the truth.
Read and see for your self.

…No, we own the patient –NMA
Unlike his medical colleagues, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of University College Hospital, Ibadan, Prof. Temitope Alonge, has said that the title of ‘consultancy’ in a teaching hospital should not be reserved for doctors alone. He however, explained that the terminology which could apply to other professional bodies that have got to a certain level in their career should not be confused with that of a consultant doctor which is based on years of practice in a particular specialty.

Prof Alonge who is also an Orthopaedic surgeon, divulged this to newsmen during a media parley in Lagos recently.
In the recent times, the issue of consultancy has caused quite a controversy in the medical sector, with the dispute largely blamed for the unresolved industrial actions, the consequential death tolls and the decay in the sector.

While other health professionals such as Pharm. Olumide Akintayo, the President of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), has argued that the title “consultancy” as well as the position of directors, are applicable to other health professionals, a member of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Dr. Olubunmi Omojowolo told National Mirror that this cannot work in a teaching hospital. “Yes there are consultant nurses and pharmacists in other countries but that is only in private hospitals, it cannot work in a teaching hospital”, he said.

Report has it that the hornets’ nest was stirred when consultant nurses and pharmacists were appointed at UCH and other teaching hospitals, a development that did not go well with the doctors.

According to the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCAN), the situation became unbearable when, “consultant nurses prevented surgeons, who performed surgical procedures on patients from inspecting the surgical wounds of their own patients.” In a press conference at Ibadan, the President of MDCAN, Dr Olusegun Ayodeji Oluwole narrated how a Consultant Plastic Surgeon was barred from reviewing the surgical wound he created post-operatively because a “Consultant Nurse” had reviewed the wound earlier and was satisfied with her findings. Also at the Nnamdi Azikwe University Teaching Hospital Awka, a “Consultant Pharmacist” was reported to have invaded the wards with his team, canceled patients’ prescriptions and demanded that a Consultant Cardiologist remove a key drug in an in-patient prescription, on grounds that the drug has some known adverse effects.

On the heel of these developments, the NMA commenced an indefinite strike after issuing a 24-point demand to the government, one of which include the discontinuation of non-medical doctors as Directors and Consultants in a teaching hospital.

Pledging its resolve to continue the strike despite the Ebola outbreak, and the recent sack of 16,000 resident doctors, the NMA president Lagos branch, Dr. Kola Ojo, insists that the title of ‘Consultant’ in medical practice is reserved exclusively for a doctor that has gone through a minimum of six years postgraduate academic training.

According to him, the patient is traditionally registered under a consultant, who owns the patient and reserves all rights over the patient.
However, in a shift from the doctor’s sacrosanct view, Prof Alonge of UCH Ibadan explained that the premier teaching hospital does not concentrate effort to one cadre of medical profession alone. “Let me say that in UCH, we don’t discriminate and we implement government directives to the letters. The Federal Government has issued a mandate that everyone should get to the peak of their career”.

He expressed the view that other members of the health sector have the right to be made directors in teaching hospitals explaining that “very soon, we are going to have directors of pharmacy, nursing, physiotherapy at UCH. All of these people are Level-17 officers and we must give them their due rights”.
While reacting to the incident of ‘consultant nurses’ and ‘pharmacists’ which has its root from UCH, he explained this as a confusion of terminology, “It was an unfortunate scenario when the hospital introduced, without the consent of the ministry, the issue of consultancy in other areas.

I think the terminology is what is confusing the entire public because when the patients come they don’t have an idea that Consultancy, by virtue of professionalism is different from a consultant in a particular specialty based on years of practice as a doctor. But I think a particular committee is addressing the terminology”

Professor Alonge lauded the efforts of specialized pharmacy also known as “clinical pharmacy” adding that no one can question their approach to care. “If you send a prescription to the pharmacy department and the drugs are not compatible, the pharmacists will comfortable write on the prescription back to you, asking you to kindly review the prescription or ask for a discussion.

“That is called clinical pharmacy. Otherwise, a young doctor, by virtue of the limited experience in particular area may want to mix drugs not deliberately but out of the fact that he has not had deep experience enough to know the limitation. But the pharmacy will not say I don’t want to give you the drugs, rather he will write to the doctor, so we have a good working relationship with our pharmacists,” he said.

He also narrated his own experience in 1995 while practicing as an orthopedic surgeon, “having written a prescription of antibiotics, the pharmacists called me – ‘can I have few words with you?’ He explained that the prescription may need to be reviewed but I informed him that the patient has an acute infection and I needed to contain it as soon as possible and that is why I have extended the prescription beyond the routine to 10 days. And that was accepted because it was a straight logical discussion”
Prof. Alonge advised that everyone should know their limitation and other profession should also be respected

[quote author=Demdem][/quote]For you not to disclose your profession,its obvious that you are a doctor but not just a doctor,but a sacked former resident doctor(student) who was forcefully thrown into the labour market while trying to tell his pay master what other fellow employee(govt permanent staff for that matter) should get.
Now my candid advice is for u to go and beg for locum now or it will dawn on u when u don't see alert by the end of this month.
Thank me later.

Demdem:
Crap.
Ok, the doctors have been sacked, why are the hospitals still shut.
Do u think if u johesu folks were sacked, tge hospitals will remain shut? U lots are nothing but support staffs. Am no doctor but eh whenever I come to the hospital, it's because I want to see a doctor first before any other.
Besides, shame to ur consultant nurses, consultant pharmacist, consultant gateman etc who simply can't continue to run the hospitals despite doctors sack.

Bros, you sound so ignorant of how the health care system works.Apart from your cursing and swearing,what is your profession?
Let me remind you,as far as you are not a doctor and you that is blabbing gets a job in the FG owned hospital,you are inevitably JOHESU! Be you a lawyer(attorney to the hospital),An Engineer(works dept),Computer scientist(IT Dept),etc and all these professionals work together to ensure that you leave the hospital well again.Now the doctors have sworn over there dead body for this diverse departments not to head themselves.

Royver: 1. president sacks all resident doctors
2. President employs locum doctors all of whom will be overworked.
3. Patient comes in with Ebola fever, but since it cannot be differentiated from Malaria fever, nobody is alerted.
4. Also no protective equipment for doctor and no protection for other patients.
5. Ebola patient sits next to another patient and sneezes, sweats, cleans hands on the chair and gists with other patients, shaking their hands, borrowing biro and newspapers from them, touching them.
6. The Ebola virus spreads.
7. Patient enters to see the already overworked and dirty doctor, the doctor touches patient and gets infected.
8. Doctor sees other patients and infects them as well.
9. No test kit to even check if the patient has ebola
10. One(1) person with ebola entered the hospital. All(20? 50? 100?) the people the doctor saw in his room leave the hospital with the Ebola virus.


And you Nigerians are still trading insults.
Instead of you to see the health implications of what is about to happen, you are sitting comfortably in your rooms typing droppings about doctors online because you finally have a chance to showcase your hate.
A disaster is on your doorstep and you think by sending doctors back to work the Ebola virus will miraculously disappear.
The same people who say doctors are useless are the same ones clamouring that they return and work wonders with no equipment, no drugs, no test kits, NOTHING.
The Problem is not just the President.
The problem is also the citizens.
This country is to be pitied.

Doctors are already a disaster on the citizens by abandoning the tax payers by going on strike for a month an half now,do u know many that have died? abeg they should go out their and tackle ebola afterall they never went on strike for proper equiping of our hospitals but rather for ego trips and money. nonsense

atlwireles: The problem is the crazy Unions in Nigeria, not doctors. Unions in this country need to severely restricted to market women and Okada drivers only.

what is this one saying

drobadebayo: 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

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

logic2014: everybody may be a doctor even your dog but you would neva be. and as long as your sorry ass continue to work within the four walls of a hospital you would always be second best my dear dispenser. Don't deceive yourself about running different race. na the same race. Even in 4X100m where all 4 runners are in the same team, there is always the one they call the 'anchor' he is the best of the 4 and he always run the last leg. remember Usain bolt! He is the anchor in the Jamaican team. in this race of health care, the doctor is the anchor and there is no amount of beef that can change that, You would always be second best. Deal with it.

you dim wit,is it not better you should use this samll time you have to type your application letter or u dont understand the fact now that you r jobless.DRUM IT IN YA EARS' YOU HAVE BEEN SACKED

Chartey: Next time try to understand things properly before posting. You obviously know little about residency.

i hope you agree now i know alot.its only students that can be hired and disgracefully sacked like what the fg is doing now.better go and apply for locum before its late

ketoprofen: resident doctors that work their asses off are mere post graduate students?
Nkita rifooro gi nsi

Keto wateva...nkita riforo gi nsi too...now your arse is jobless,u better go and apply for locum before the space will be finished.
jobless fool

onyxo76: i really pity your ignorance, in yankee don't residents get paid while in training?? A resident may be a post graduate medical doctor but how do you expect him to survive and feed his/her family while training to become a specialist?? You cannot be an MO in an FG hospital at the same time a resident in another teaching hospital ,the system will find you out... Which parent after training his ward for close to 7 years in medical school will now continue to pay school fees for another 4-7 years for the chap to become a consultant?? I almost have a feeling that your family has never produced a medical doctor let alone a consultant...

i hope you have apllied for locum by now.i warned you that u r just a mere student,u never believed.now you have lost your job.
morrow morning tuck in your tail between ur legs and collect ur sack letter and come back to the labour market if u r not in good terms with ya MD/CMD.
ROTFL

chamboy: Abeg Gerrout

see you cant tell me gerrout because you have already being thrown out.no job.shikena. maybe it has not dawned on you yet.better dont wait till u see no alert this month.you better go and queue for your locum job morrow and thank me later.everyone of u liking ur posts have already called their MD and CMD to secure their locum jobs.no dulling.

armadeo: Fixed!

So u feel editing and quoting me will make you feel better?
My dear maybe you didnt realise you are now jobless,i mean no more monthly alerts.you are back on the labour market where you came from...we call it square 1.or else u rush morrow morning and apply for locum.thank me later ,ok.

sonofaGod: [b][/b]another wasted sperm,totally clueless chap.dear Lord plz forgive him cos he doesn't kno wat he is saying

you call urself son of a god,,definitely its sango or amadioha,,now you know who is serving the living God.you better go 1st thing morrow morning apply for locum or your sorry arse will be jobless and find urself back on pp...u know how it is in pp....ROTFL

Meanwhile, u will always be a learner.

centje: [s][/s]

Id*iot.

i can understand your situation. you know,waking up suddenly and finding yourself jobless its not easy ton comprehend.
i suggest u cover ur head in shame as u come out morrow or are u still in a govt sponsored update.if you are enjoy it,for it may be your last..just saying.

magnusalbertus: is this what u call 'woken up'? I see u are of d same stock as those clueless fellows. with this Ebola epidermic I think this is a poor decision.

So who r those clueless fellows?

Who is the Minister of health--doctor
Who is the minister of state for health--doctor
Who wants to be the next surgeon general--doctor
Who claims to know all in Health Management--doctor

So all this Egomaniacs and Money mongers of a doctor calling our president CLUELESS with bad advisers should swallow their saliva with SHAME.
The doctors want to collapse health sector but GEJ must first collapse all of you cankerworms!
GEJ till 2019....better go and Join TAN now and apply 4 job,,it is not late yet.Jobless fools

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

Finally Fg have woken up from slumber.

phantom: these people signed an agreement with NMA/NARD last year that these monetary issues would take effect from January this year.they promised that monies to settle these arrears would be appropriated under SERVICE WIDE VOTE in the 2014 budget.
the service wide vote in the 2014 budget is to the tune of 260+ billion naira and was one of the reasons for the back and forth between the executive and the legislature before the budget was finally passed.
the service wide vote is not budgeted for anything in particular and is supposed to be for emergency spending.
the FG had promised the NMA that monies owed would be settled from the SWV.
why then are okonjo iweala and these criminal reps telling us stories?
where did the money that was flown to Brazil when the eagles refused to train come from?
how much has been spent on the useless national confab so far?
how much is the newspaper allowance for our senators and reps every month?
why are our leaders taking us for fools? do they think we don't know they plan to use these monies to fund election campaigns and rigging in the forthcoming state elections and 2015 presidential elections?
we are watching!

So is truly because of money that NMA went on strike allowing the poor tax payers to die off.Crazy Doctors that have left their calling to chase money.Then you better leave your calling and join the politicians for the national cake since it is what you want.
READ and Digest Fools,
The Nigerian Health Sector has been in the news for some
time now, as a result of the lingering crisis that has bedeviled
the Sector. The HEALTH sector is expected to be a place of
total wellbeing but why is there so much hostility in the
Sector which has taken a hydra-headed form? Why is the
Sector matching towards Tophet; the Valley of Destruction?
There is so much misinformation, impunity, violation of
Established Rules and Codes of Conduct. Why is the Place
polarized with mistrust, and disharmony? Why has the
Government allowed herself to become a pawn in the hands
of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and Medical and
Dental Consultants Association(MDCAN) which are not
legally recognized Trade Unions ? Why does the Government
allow double Standards within the same Sector? The
government that was able to restrain a registered Trade
Union from going on strike has not stopped an unregistered
body posturing as a Trade Union. Why has the Government
allowed the Constitution of the Federal Republic, to be
violated by NMA who sees herself as the Imperial Majesty,
who must continue to subjugate other workers in the Health
Sector? Before we bring answers to these numerous WHYS,
let us x-ray the pathogenesis of the crisis in the Health
Sector.
SALARY STRUCTURES IN THE HEALTH SECTOR
Under the then President, His Excellency Alhaji Umaru Musa
Yar’Adua, the Nigerian Government in 2009 had approved
two different Salary Structures in the Health Sector. These
two Salary Scales were known as Consolidated Medical
Salary Scale (CONMESS) and Consolidated Health Salary
Scale (CONHESS).Medical Doctors in the Service of the
Nigerian Civil Service are on CONMESS, while every other
person working in the Health Sector was placed under the
CONHESS structure. Before the emergence of the late
President UMARU MUSA YAR’ ADUA, President Olusegun
Obasanjo, had placed all Nigerian Health Workers under a
unified Salary Scale.NMA had seriously kicked against this
unified Salary Scale. It was NMA that negotiated CONMESS
for her members while the Joint Health Sector Union
(JOHESU), a recognized Trade Union made up of all Unions
in the Health Sector outside Medical Doctors, negotiated
CONHESS for her members. Below is the two Salary Scales.
CONMESS SALARY SCALE
CONMESS 01----- HOUSE OFFICER/YOUTH CORPS DOCTOR
– Grade Level 10
CONMESS 02----- Registrar/Medical Officer - Grade Level 12
CONMESS 03----- Senior Registrar Grade 11/Senior Medical
Officer Grade 2 Grade Level 13
CONMESS 04---- - Senior Registrar Grade 1/Senior Medical
Officer Grade 1 Grade level 14
CONMESS 05------ Consultant/Principal Medical officer
Grade 2 Grade Level 15
CONMESS 06------ Consultant Special Grade 2/Principal
Medical Officer Grade 1 Grade Level 16
CONMESS 07-------Consultant Special Grade 1/Chief
Medical Officer Grade Level 17
CONHESS SALARY SCALE
CONHESS 7 INTERNS/NYSC ----------- Grade Level 8
CONHESS 8 X -Officer 1 ----------- Grade Level 9
CONHESS 9 Senior X-Officer ----------- Grade Level 10
CONHESS 11 Principal X- Officer ----------- Grade Level 12
CONHESS 12 Assistant Chief X-Officer ------------ Grade
Level 13
CONHESS 13 Chief X-Officer ------------- Grade Level 14
CONHESS 14 Assistant Director X-Officer ---------- Grade
Level 15
CONHESS 15 Deputy Director X-Officer ------------- Grade
Level 16
CONHESS 16 Director X-Officer ---------------------Grade
Level 17
THE FACE OF JANUS AND THE MATCH TOWARDS TOPHET!
In the late 2009, NMA, started a campaign of calumny,
against members of JOHESU , that they were Skipping, which
she alleged as a violation of Government policy. And they as
Medical Doctors are treated unjustly in the health sector .As
shown above, we have seen that NMA members were the
greatest beneficiary of the Government approved Salary
Scale, with higher entry point and jumbo pay.NMA was of the
opinion that any member of JOHESU, who had moved from
CONHESS 9 -to CONHESS 11, should be brought down by
one grade level. JOHESU members were unjustly accused of
skipping and the polity was heated up. The Public Service
Rule provides in 020205 and 020205 (e)- To be eligible for
appointment into the Federal Public Service (e) possess
requisite qualifications as provided for in the scheme of
service. The accusation was faulty because in the Scheme of
Service for JOHESU members, there was nothing like Grade
level 11.In fact it is a misnomer to term the movement from
Grade Level 10 to Grade Level 12 skipping. This is not
skipping, because there is no level 11 and what you have in
the Scheme of Service is movement from Grade level 10 to
12.The Ministry of Health was seeing through the prism and
binoculars of NMA. She supported the recommendation
subscribed by NMA that all JOHESU members who have
moved from Grade Level 10 to Grade level 12 should be
brought down by one Grade level. In a circular dated 11th of
January 2010 , with reference number HCSF /EPO/EIR/RR/
B.63755/T1/77 ,the office of the Head of Service of the
Federation stopped the movement of JOHESU members from
Grade 10 to Grade level 12. About a year later, the Head of
Service in a similar circular dated 10th of February, 2011
with reference number HCSF/EPO/EIR/63755/T1/149 called
the movement of Workers from Grade 10 to Grade Level 12
an unauthorized Skipping. By June 2011, the Health Sector
was already heated up with drum beats of war between the
Workers under the aegis of JOHESU and the Nigerian
Government represented by the Ministry of Health. It should
be recalled, that as at June 28th 2010, in a meeting held at
JUTH GUEST HOUSE in Abuja all Chief Medical Directors and
Medical Directors under the auspices of Committee of Chief
Executives, Federal Tertiary Aspect in Nigeria, unanimously
agreed and released a memo with the reference number
CCEHTH/SEC/V.1/86 on the 29th of June 2010 addressed to
all Chief Executives of Federal Health Institutions. Article 3 on
the topic was- implementation of circular on CONTISS
forbidding skipping of Grade Level 10 or any Grade level. The
decision taken was;-(1) Members decided that by July this
year (2010) all Federal Tertiary Hospital should have fully
implemented the circular with effect from 1st April 2010.All
officers who had skipped Grade level 10 should be brought
down by one grade level except those occupying the
appointive posts of Director of Administration.(2)To effect this
all CF.Os should simultaneously issue a circular to all
affected staff on the 12th July,2010 informing them of the
plan to implement the circular in July. This memo was signed
by M O. Adeoba for: Chairman CCEFTH. Immediately this
directive was later implemented, the Health Sector was
thrown into chaos, JOHESU gave the Government ultimatum
to change her decisions which was not workers friendly, but
the Government refused. Moreover the Government failed to
implement agreements signed with JOHESU since 2009. This
was now followed with a Strike action by JOHESU who
accused, the Government of not keeping with the principle of
Collective Bargaining. As a result of the crisis in the health
Sector on the 9th of August 2011, The Minister of Labour
waded into the matter, but the Ministry of Health was not
satistisfied by the resolution, and the matter was later taken
to the National Industrial Court for adjudication. After a legal
battle between the Ministry of Health and JOHESU, the Court
ruled in favour of JOHESU in 2013, that Government was
wrong to have denied JOHESU members her right. And that
JOHESU members appointed Consultants were wrongfully
stopped as consultants. After the judgment, from nowhere,
NMA/MDCAN who were not a party to the suit, cried foul that
the Court Judgment should not be implemented. They as
usual were the one that hoodwinked the Government, to have
taken the wrong decision that was upturned by the Court.
Suddenly they started accusing government of favouring
JOHESU members, and that they must skip, even though that
no JOHESU member was skipping. Now that the Government
is trying to muster the courage to do what is right, NMA/
MDCAN has chosen to fight the Nigerian patients, by denying
them services and declaring a strike action. Note that it is the
same patient they have told the world that they own and that
all their actions is for the best interest of the patient. Today
NMA/MDCAN who insisted that they must have a different
salary structure are the ones imposing on the Government
what other employees should earn .The same NMA/MDCAN
that wrongfully accused JOHESU members of skipping and
even lost this matter in court is the one, now championing
skipping for her members, even when doctors scheme of
service does not grant such. What a double standard!
NMA/MDCAN AND CALCULATED SABOTAGE.
Since July 1st 2014,NMA AND MDCAN have denied patients
the right to treatment even when the National Industrial Court
had ruled that all parties involved should maintain status quo
ante. Dr Obembe the leader of NMA, who also happens to be
a member of MDCAN has continued to defy Court orders
under the guise that it is MDCAN that went to Court. One is
forced to ask, “Is Dr Obembe not a member of MDCAN”?
Again, does NMA have the moral justification to call for strike
when she is not a Trade Union? Can NMA go on strike on an
issue that is already before a Court of competent jurisdiction?
How does NMA think that the Government will be negotiating
with her on an issue before the Court? MDCAN in a
calculated ploy to deceive the Nigerian populace came on air
to declare that they are not on strike and that they are not
joining NMA in the strike action. The truth of the matter is
that MDCAN is on strike they are not on ground, and they are
not working. MDCAN and her fellow consultants, who have
so designated themselves as the owner of the patients, have
abandoned the patient they say they own. On the so called
minimal achievable demand, NMA should be told in clear
terms that they are not achievable. In the immortal words of
the erudite Justice Niki Tobi, JCA ( as he then was) “when an
issue is before a Court of competent jurisdiction, even though
it takes time, the parties must wait ,they must not jump the
gun, they cannot go for self help” What NMA is doing now is
self help and transfer of aggression on the innocent patients
they have acclaimed to own. The issues raised by NMA/
MDCAN are before a court, so negotiations and decisions
cannot be taking on such matters.
NMA/MDCAN strike is a strike of Prejudice and Ego trip, and
Government should be firm to stop this hydra-headed
problem. The Members of the National Assembly and the
Government should not cave in to the blackmail by NMA/
MDCAN. They must be firm to make NMA/MDCAN see that
their actions are against the state. This is the only way to
make NMA/MDCAN amenable to the laws of the land and
eschew impunity. The Government should know that
Nigerians and indeed the world is watching! JOHESU
members account over 95% of the Healthcare work force, so
the Government must be careful not to be seen to show
favoritism. But must stand on the pedestal of equity and
justice to call a spade a spade. The agitation by NMA/MDCAN
that only they should be Directors, Hospital Chief Executives,
and Consultants should be jettisoned in a jiffy. This is
because such demands are not supported by any statute in
Nigeria. If one is to use the principle of balance of
convenience, how does appointing other healthcare experts
as Directors, Consultants in their specialized disciplines,
affect members of NMA/MDCAN? Even when the different
approved scheme of service, for all these professionals,
allows them to reach the zenith of their career and recognizes
such appointments. How does it affect NMA/MDCAN?. NMA/
MDCAN should know that the other Healthcare Workers are
not a conquered people and that the hospital is not their
capitalist empire. The hospital is a government parastatals
set by law and must operate within the confines of the law
setting it up.NMA/MDCAN should throw away the toga of
medical capitalism and imperialism by embracing medical
humanism. A Physician is expected to be compassionate,
and service oriented devoid of prejudice. NMA/MDCAN
should go and study the preamble to the declaration of
Independence of the United States of America, composed in
1776 which reads thus, “We hold these truth to be self-
evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among
these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” So do all
medical personnel in the health sector who is not an
allopathic physician do affirm. NMA/MDCAN should know
that for a nation to excel, it must be build on equality of all
men, rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.NMA/
MDCAN are not the employers of the Nigerian Health Workers,
so she cannot decide what Nigerian Health Workers get. The
issue of relativity is unfounded and has no basis on any
Nigerian Statute book even indeed world over. No
professional’s wage bill is determined by the wage bill of
another, but by Governments’ Terms of Appointment into the
Service.
On the floor of the Nigerian National Assembly, when, the
incumbent Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu ,was
being screened to become a Minister, he was asked, “how
would he maintain peace in the health sector that has been
so laden with interprofessional disharmony?”. The Minister
answered that he would do all it takes to bring harmony into
the sector. Again, he was also asked, “what are his views that
only one professional group is the one virtually in control in
the health sector and that other healthcare professionals are
not so involved in leadership of the System?”. The Min. of
Health again answered; that “we will get there that it is a
gradual process that things are changing.” To the Most HIGH
be the glory that the Hon Minister told the world ,that his
action of stopping the consultancy status of other health
workers, was as a result of the complain made by NMA. It is
on the same issue, that the National Industrial Court has said
that, that action was in error, a violation of workers right to
collective bargain. Now that the Hon. Min. of Health has
started seeing that NMA/MDCANS’ actions, are in bad faith,
he must be firm to right the structural injustices in the Health
Sector. So that he would have lived up to his words, “that he
would do everything in his power to bring harmony in the
health sector.” The crisis in the health sector has gotten to
where it is today, because of the over bearing attitude of
some allopathic physicians, who have forgotten that medicine
is the art, act and science of healing, whose scope is beyond
allopathic medicine. It is highly unfortunate that NMA/
MDCAN leadership personified in the person of Dr Obembe
has suddenly forgotten that the word medical is an adjective
which means related to the art, act and science of healing. A
situation, where allopathic physicians in a false mindset sees
only themselves as being medical and other healthcare
experts as non medical breeds/creates a wrong image. The
future allopathic physicians must be nursed and nurtured to
have a mind set of medical humanism to give a good medical
image that does not thrive on rancor, falsehood and a
doctored ideology. The word medical is not a synonym for a
doctor, for if it were, it would not be seen placed in front of
the word doctor as in the term “medical doctor” for that will
be tautology. Every healthcare professional involved with the
act, art and science related to healing are all medical
personnel. So the word medical is not an exclusive term to
designate allopathic physicians but all that is involved with
healing and healthcare services.
Conclusion
Now that it is so glaring that NMA/MDCAN strike is sabotage
against the state, because they are causing untold hardship
to the citizens of Nigeria. This as a result of their ego driven
demands. And have failed to obey Government orders,
because most hospital Chief Executives being members of
MDCAN are in sympathy with them. They have failed to call
NMA/MDCAN to order to suspend the strike, even when there
is a court order. As a result of the death of Nigerians, based
on this sabotage, the Federal Government should invoke the
powers conferred on her in section 18(1) and 18(2) of
University Teaching Hospitals (Reconstruction of Boards, etc)
Act CAP 463 LFN which states 18(1) “The President may,
notwithstanding any provision of this Act, take such
measures as occasion may warrant in order to improve the
efficiency or due administration of the teaching hospitals
specified in the Schedule to this Act.”
18(2) “ For the purpose of section (1 )of this section, the
President may appoint or give such authority for the
appointment of Military Commandments to take charge of
administration of any of the teaching hospitals specified in
this Act for such period as may be stipulated in the authority.
Again, section 19 of the act, on the definition of hospital
states “Hospital includes all institutions (however called)
controlled by the board.” Government should as a matter of
urgency bring sanity into the system by making sure; that
this sabotage by allopathic doctors is stopped. The
Government should declare their actions illegal. As the Health
Sector moves towards TOPHET a symbol of collapse, we
must do all it takes to salvage her, by doing what is right!

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Their major grouse with
government was a demand for
"Teaching Allowance" for House
Officers, who are doctors-in-
training, still being taught the
practical aspects of the job to
prepare them well for the
challenges of the caring
profession.
House Officers, according to the
Lagos State Commisioner for
Information and Strategy,
Aderemin Lateef Ibirogba, would
only be eligible to proceed on
National Youth Service Corps
based on their success at this
Housemanship.
The Doctors, he disclosed were
also demanding an increase in
their salaries without recourse
to the other professionals in the
public service system, despite
currently receiving the full
Consolidated Medical Salary
Structure (CONMESS), by which
the least paid among them (the
House Officers), receive over
N173,000.00 monthly
As at now, House Officers on Grade Level in the
State take home a total of
N173,927.33, while Medical
Officers on Grade level 12, earn
between N207,629.75 and
N256,903.58 every month, he
said, adding that those on level
13 earn between N260,690.59
and N309,303.83 monthly.
Level 14 Medical Officers earn
between N312,883.83 and
N364,613.41 monthly, just as
those on level 15 net home
between N372,463.50 and
N444,311.58 every month.
"In the same way, the State pays
doctors on Grade Level 16
between N445,522.00 and
N531,205.83 monthly, while
those on level 17 are paid
between N534,594.67 and
N632,658.17. The Consultants
earn a monthly salary of
between N439,576.50 and
N801,985.09", he said.
Government, he explained, had
frowned at the habit of the
doctors of exploiting every
flimsy excuse to divert patients
from government hospitals to
their private clinics, most of
which were located close to
government hospitals under the
guise of ill-conceived strike,
adding that government was
committed to maintaining law
and order while making efforts
to protect who chose not to take
part in the illegal strike, as
adequate security would be
provided to make those who
want to work do so unhindered,
in this regard, doctors who
consider it their professional
duty to continue to work are
assured of adequate protection.
The Commissioner however,
assured that everything possible
was being done to ensure that
normalcy was quickly restored
to the health system and that
knee-jerk recourse to strike
action, leading to distress and
even death of citizens of Lagos,
would no longer be part of the
culture of the state health
service. the skipping has already been done from House officer GL10 to medical officer GL 12. and now super skipping to GL13.