₦airaland Forum

McStoic: Long term jealousy indeed! Guess you think everyone envies your profession, ain't it? FYI, I am very very comfortable in the career i have chosen. I stand to gain nothing by being jealous or intimidated by a fellow professional. I have doctors, med lab scientists, pharmacists and other medical personnels as relations and friends hence i have nothing against them.

McStoic: Even if I am wrong, why should a temporary staff like the resident doctors hold the government by
the jugular at a time like this? Why must a temporary staff dictate to the employer on what and how
to remunerate the permanent staff? Sometimes I wonder at the way some of these doctors reason.
In one of the Federal Medical Centres last week, a so called senior consultant in Family Medicine
was questioning where the FG got the N1 billion they released for the eradication of the Ebola virus
(failing to realize that, a man may not have money but will definitely be forced to have even if it
means borrowing when his wife is in labour) . His rationale was that since government claimed they
didn't have money, where could they have raised that from!! Imagine how a full fledged health
professional is reasoning, you can now imagine how the lesser group who are resident doctors will
be...........Funny set of people! You cannot win a war against the government, be warned all of you.

McStoic: Whether the resident doctors were sacked or not, one thing remains clear: returning to status quo will cause a lot of chain reaction in the health sector.

In saner climes, the responsibilities of the government towards a medical student stops or kind of gets limited once they are through with their intership or housemanship as the case is ( In USA, for instance, they sponsor themselves while the government only pays them stipend to aid them) .For those who are not aware, the federal government still trains a resident doctor to pass his exams towards attaining consultancy! Meanwhile, other medical students in say med lab and co are left to cater for the expenses incurred while trying to attain the same status of high class specialists.

From the foregoing, resident doctors used to pay for their residency but at a point in time, Nigeria didn't have enough doctors and it was decided (during the military era) that the cost of the residency program would be shouldered by the government to enable greater output of doctors. For many years this had been on, no one complained, not even other members of the health sector. Cue in to recent developments, where doctors are against like better benefits for other paramedical bodies. Hardly anywhere in the world can you find the government bearing the total brunt of a student's tuition. These resident doctors are students and ought to pay for their further studies just like other allopathic students do. It's clear that only the doctors have been favoured all these while and now they are trying to abuse the privilege. If the suspension should ever be called off, the president should be ready to pay for other medical students as well. Most Nigerians don't know that the amount of money spent to train these resident doctors can be chanelled into other areas cos they eat up a large chunk of the budget. Those who are aggrieved can still go and pass their consultancy training at other West African Countries or even overseas like they are threatening...........Whatever is good for the ox is good for the gander!!

Medicare funds the vast majority
of residency training in the US.

A doctor who came here
for MSc in Public health. He had
is eye in the residency program
but he cant make it there from
Nigeria. He finished his MSc n
now in the residence program
with $50k pay

samuel900: If you are among those fools that abuse Fashola and APC for not using the drug, u are a big fool

EbolaParasite: Nigerians sha with una over sabi. Everybody be Ebola expert. You honestly think in your mind that somebody that just recovered from EBOLA will be discharged without testing. Come on now. No make i vex for you oo. This aint Guinea, Liberia or Congo. This is NIGERIA. We no bad like that.

eaglechild: Why is there sooooooo much ignorance in every Ebola thread?

Emeka UgwuonyeThe Due
Process Advocates (DPA)
Fri ·
NEGLECT OF THE EBOLA
PATIENTS: THE WORST THAT WE
FEARED HAPPENED:
When I speak out against the
Nigerian Government, many
people, particularly the
supporters of the government,
accuse me of all manner of evil.
They think they love Nigeria
better than I do. But the fact is
that I have been right. Nigerian
Government is the worst on
earth. It is made up of criminals
and incompetent fools from top
to bottom. I hate to have to
speak of them like this. But I
cannot run away from the truth.
Nigerian Government officials
are the most corrupt. They are
the most ignorant. They do not
care about their country. They
do not care about their people.
Openly they speak of one
Nigeria and patriotism. But
behind, they work so hard to
destroy the country. Even on
common things like fighting
Ebola, they are uselessly unable
to perform the basic things.
They quickly announced the
allocation of 1.9 Billion Naira,
which they have earmarked to
embezzle. Those who would use
that money to buy mansions in
Europe and America already
know themselves.
So, they abandoned our Ebola
patients to die. They went to
televisions and spoke nonsense.
But in fact, they never cared
about the patients. No oxygen
canisters. No basic medication
and equipments that WHO has
recommended. Indeed, Nigerian
Government isolated the Ebola
patients for the purpose of
finishing them up. It is mind
bugging to face up to the
exceptional neglect these
patients have suffered. To get a
better picture, consider the
following statements from Mr.
John Okeiyi Kalu (JOK) who
stayed in touch with an Ebola
patient in isolation till the last.
JOK wrote:
"My basic conclusion is that
Nigeria and the world failed
Justina. She (Justina Ejelonu,
one of the nurses) could have
lived if all that was required at
the quarantine place was
provided. Her fiancé shares my
view and sent this to me a while
ago: "Am presently at the
hospital to get her death
certificate. Am angry n will do
what Justina will do for me if its
me. These pple are being
brought here to die n that's all
but I can't watch it.""
…………..
"I was on the phone with the
fiancé who stopped over
yesterday morning at the
market to buy a few things
Justina will need. We mapped
out our plan on what to do that
day, including getting a list of
essential drugs from the WHO
staff so we can urgently procure
them and also inform the
authorities that those items are
not available. When he arrived
at the hospital to deliver what
he bought and await Yako's
arrival with the new oxygen
canister, he sent me this
initially confusing message "my
brother Obioma is gone""
……………..
"Due to the work we did quietly
without rabble rousing, the
nation is now focused on the
state of the quarantine facility.
Relatives of patints have found
their voices and are protesting.
The media is focusing on details
like why there is no oxygen,
infusion and other medical
supplies there. We have given
what information we have to
them. As you now know, we got
3 media people to hear directly
from Justina. 2 of them have
published already and the 3rd
one is so angry that I am
"scared" of what he will publish
this saturday in his feature
story."
Those who defend Nigeria or
Nigerian Government really has
to understand that they are
defending the worst regime on
earth. They are defending idiots
and crooks. It is not about
political parties. I don't support
any. I don't care who is in
power. What matters is what do
they do for the people of this
country? How could they allow
our citizens die like chicken?
Even Guinea and Sierra Leone
and Liberia have all done better
than the big-for-nothing
Nigeria.

viroblaze: A reason we should free ourselves from the claws of the so called big companies.. I so much love the xiaomi and the miui.. Android truly redefined..

theoctopus: This is a report from a media house, not a government news briefing. Must you criticize everything?

felifeli: [size=16pt]This report is false. I know the woman and the last report we got of her last night is that she is in critical condition. News still went around this evening to pray for her. A miracle could happen but not one that will cause her to be discharged so suddenly. I hope she has not passed on. She is really a very brilliant doctor and her father was a former VC of Unilag. Poor woman [/size]

of the eight
suspected Ebola cases quarantined
at the Isolation Unit of the Yaba
Mainland Hospital has gone into a
coma, a source has told Premium
Times. The patient, a female
consultant at the First Consultant
Medical Centre, is now in a critical
condition. “She is in a bad shape,
her condition really deteriorated
today. But the other seven are
responding to treatment,” the
source said. The female doctor is
one of the 44 people who had
primary contact with Patrick
Sawyer, the Liberian- Americ an
who died of Ebola virus."

Sunkyphil: me too am wondering even called a news conference

One of the eight suspected Ebola
cases quarantined at the Isolation
Unit of the Yaba Mainland Hospital
has gone into a coma, a source
has
told Premium Times.
The patient, a female consultant at
the First Consultant Medical
Centre,
is now in a critical condition.
“She is in a bad shape, her
condition
really deteriorated today. But the
other seven are responding to
treatment,” the source said.
The female doctor is one of the 44
people who had primary contact
with
Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-Americ
an
who died of Ebola virus.

mez: I love your sense of humour/sarcasm.

FKO1: YOU ANSWER AM WELLL

Onegai: Let me give you my personal gist. Take a cold zobo, pull up a chair

I had an illness, which I never had before. But I couldn't afford to go to a doctor for a whole month, so suffered, as in truly suffered. Till I told Pharmacist A, who screamed I should head to the hospital asap.

A nurse came, took N15,000 equivalent from me, filled out my history, the doctor came and in a bored voice, without doing a single physical exam, started asking me if I had HIV, Herpes, this STI or that. While I wept.

Doctor B heard what happened to me and sent me to another clinic. Filled with wonderful people, who ran tests and answered his questions via email. We got a diagnosis and I left healed. I paid nothing.

That story happened in the US. That bored doctor charged me over a $100 and assumed my black skin meant I was a crackhead, streetgirl and didn't bother treating me, just assumed I had some funky disease. The pharmacist A and doctor B were living in Nigeria, and insisted (over the phone and through emails) that I get better healthcare. They found me a free clinic and the nurses there were willing to listen and discuss my case with them, because I was so weak and tired and afraid by then.

So yes, you have lousy doctors in Nigeria, yet you have doctors in this Nigeria, better than the ones in the US. If they had good facilities, we wouldn't have half-baked doctors. Stop insulting them, demand your govt give them everything then demand the absolute best from doctors. Because then it will be your right.

Public healthcare is usually not great, ask people who have access to NHS in the UK. But it is still the first and best line of defence any country has. I got a lousy doctor in the US because my health coverage (made for profit) didn't cover me getting a doctor who gave a d.amn. I got fantastic treatment from people who ran free clinics. So I will always be in support of public healthcare. And I support doctors, so that if we give them what they want, we can shout at them for not performing.

You want them to all resume with no Hazmat suits, don't you know the greatest carriers of an infectious viral disease is medical staff and close family and friends? SMH.