reindeer:

This is very good news!
Well done pharmacists!
Now if only the MDCN will hunt down all the quacks killing people in NIgeria, Life expectancy may just improve.

afam4eva:

Abeg make we hear word. How about the lower the minum wage the higher the poverty which can lead to death. So roads are more important to human life.

upendo 98:

@wegga

Continuous exposure to viruses especially HIV makes some LovePeddlers HIV resistant. Read about discordant couples.
If you slept wth one you are likely to get infected immediately but she wil not get down wth the virus.The moment she stops the trade then shes bound to get sick with it AIDS.
Your gf thats not continously exposed will infect u and get down wth it. but that pro on the street will never get down with it yet she carries it wthin her.

Research on that.

coogar:

the truth and nothing but the truth. pros[i]t[/i]itutes know how to take care of themselves more than the normal girls who are naive, uninformed, etc.

it is very justified. . . . .do you stay in nigeria at all? have you ever stayed there? if all these answers are yes then you amaze me in leaps and bounds.

almost 50% of the girls you see in tertiary institutions these days fend for themselve[/b]s. the parents only give them little or no support and you expect these young women not to seek [b]other means to get by? in developed c

Detailing the success recorded by the service, Ogar said “on May 23, security operatives discovered and successfully demobilised eight IEDs concealed in small and medium size tins beneath a staircase in Kafanchan, Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

Evil Brain:

You cannot deny doctors the rights that everybody else has just because its convenient. If a shoemaker has the right to stay at home then so does a doctor. If you think their services are so important, then you should pay them what they are worth. When they complain about their work conditions, you should try and address their concerns quickly. The problem in Nigeria is that strikes are the only language our useless government seems to understand. You can't negotiate with the government, you can't reason with it. Your only option is to go on strike.  Now, instead of doing something about the appalling work conditions doctors are subjected to, they want to resort to gestapo tactics. Well good luck to them. They'll only succeed in driving even more young doctors out of the country.

Once, when I was in medical school, the residents didn't get paid for about 6 months for one reason or the other. After the fourth month of working for free, they went on strike. Of course, the government immediately invoked the "no work, no pay" rule despite the strike being all about working without pay. I remember one of the senior residents pulling me to one side and advising me to start reading for foreign medical license exams so I could leave Nigeria. "This country doesn't deserve us" is what he said.

Best advice I ever got.

enyojo:

The award-winning President with highest number of Bombs detonated in the shortest possible time!
average of 2 per day or less!

hercules07:

Who regulates the Medical sector, is it the ministries or this council, I do not think they have any powers to swoop on anybody, they should go through the proper legal system jare.

kalokalo:

In saner climes, any medical practitioner who abandons his duty post for whatever reason that results in death or grievous harm to patients will have his medical license permanently revoked. He will be sued by his patients  for all his assets.

That is how serious they they take medical practise. Nigerians are very docile folks. If we start to do the above in Nigeria, the shenanigans of doctors will stop!!

Medical doctors can no longer go on strike, the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) has declared.

The highest decision-making body for doctors and dentists in the country said sanctions await any doctor that flouts the new directives agreed upon at the last stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja on June 23.

Dr. Roger Makanjuola, Chairman of the Council, told reporters in Abuja at the weekend that doctors could only go on strike in extreme cases.

He noted that certain measures must be put in place before doctors can abandon their duty posts.

Besides, he said before embarking on a strike, permission must be sought from and approval given by the central committee of the MDCN, which has not been the case in previous industrial actions.

Reading a communiqué at the end of the meeting, Makanjuola said: “It is unethical to go on strike. Practitioners must respect the provisions of the Code of Medical Ethics in Nigeria as prescribed by the MDCN. Having sworn to the Hippocratic Oath doctors should not go on strike because the oath says, first, the health of my patient shall be my first consideration and secondly that I will maintain the utmost respect for human life.

“These two components of the oath are clearly in conflict with strikes. If we do not intend to abide by the Hippocratic Oath, then we should stop swearing to it,” he said.

Though Makanjuola said doctors could express their grievances when such are genuine, he added that the Medical Code of Ethics allowed medical and dental practitioners to go on strike only in extreme circumstances.

He said: “When such industrial actions occur, the care of our patients is protected. The code stipulates that no patient can be abandoned in the midst of his or her treatment. A striking doctor must make arrangements to hand over the continued care of his patients before he leaves his post.

“Also, provision must be made for the continued provision of services for accident and emergencies and the care of those with serious illnesses and life-threatening conditions”.

On the possibility of governments and hospital management latching on the new directives to turn down demands for salary enhancement or provision of working tools or health infrastructures, Makanjuola said such could occur.

He said: “This is because, if the doctors have no tools to work with, coupled with an environment unsuitable for job, naturally he would explore all options first, then if everything fails to achieve redress, then the last option would be to down tool.

“What we are saying is that if any doctor goes on strike and it is reported to the Council, we will investigate it and if found culpable, sanctions would be imposed,” he emphasised.

He also said the Council was set to swoop on individuals that used fake imported medical equipment that diagnoses and treats all aliments.

splashbaby:

THE sound of fingernails on a blackboard, people having loud conversations on mobile phones in public - the list of things that annoy us is extensive.

But the sound of a child whining is the most irritating in the world to adults, scientists say.

A study found that a whining kid is the most effective way of distracting people carrying out elementary cognitive tasks.

Participants who were asked to do simple subtraction while listening to a range of noises - including machine noise and infant cries - made more mistakes and completed fewer problems while listening to a whining child.

"You're basically doing less work and doing it worse when you're listening to the whines," said study co-author Rosemarie Sokol Chang, a professor of psychology at the State University of New York.

The results weren't affected by whether or not the participants had children.

http://www.news.com.au/world/childs-whine-is-the-most-annoying-sound/story-e6frfkyi-1226080225515

Pennywise:

Or you could have it for dinner. A certain British couple did that recently. I guess when it becomes a fad it wont be news worthy any more.

M M M:

Op
Both of u should buy zidovudine and take.

Nekai:

Simply go to the nearest pharmacy and get a bottle of FOLATE. Tell her to take one everyday until it runs out.