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Hate him or love him, but he foresaw all this Fulani invasion.

show me the picture or I don't believe it

what did EFCC say?

This is serious
having same issue with my Lexus RX 300.

it was leaking gas at compressor, the technician changed the seal, worked for two months next thing I heard is virus.

I have lost confidence in the whole thing.

A man that was prosecuted by PDP led FG, while he was in PDP
so PMB has turned to a judge that sends people to jail?

The writer is first class material, the writeup is a master piece. I have just read an analytic work for the first time in Niraland since this year.

Oh the state Assembly financial autonomy serves the current feeding bottle system and distance us from restructuring.

The thing Yoruba and Igbos don't know is that they are not benefitting anything from Nigeria. However, the Igbos and SS ethnic nationalities have started receiving the sense small small.

The people against restructuring are the one benefiting from 'one' Nigeria.

I have never seen where marriage is by force.

Nigeria, country of confusion.
Complexity in corruption and ethnicity
Lack of patriotism, bane of nationhood.

The hurricane Abaribe
talk on...

I don't know what to believe again. who is lying and who is not?
But I can still remember some of the events and dates Reno released above.

Even the presidency knows that PMB is a can make it.

Even the presidency knows that PMB is a gonner.

we are led by an irredeemable failure

States in connection with what holds us down as a Nation.

poor PMB

BAYELSA
From St. Mathias Parish Amarata, Yenagoa to Government House Gate and back.
Time: 10am

I support

This minister of health is an olodo!
Just like PMB he doesn't even know the specialties and services available in Nigerian hospitals which he is overseeing.

congratulations holy fathers but next time we need a Nigerian to be among.

All this is because Catholics are planning nationwide peaceful demonstration coming Tuesday.

APC scammers!

Thanks18:
Bros, your statement is simply lies and deceptive to say the least.

Healthcare delivery is a team work. Physician is just a member while physiotherapist, pharmacist, lab scientists, radiographer make clinical input for the overall health improvement of the patients. A physiotherapist assess, diagnose, plan a treatment and execute the plan and discharge. so what are you stammering

Don't mind the olodo!

He who doesn't know should ask Google, if you fail to learn, then you can remain an olodo.

Dbboy:
What about USA secretary for health Alex Michael Azar II is an American lawyer and former drug company executive who is the current United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, after being nominated by President Donald Trump.

Don't mind the egomaniac

when their relatives are the one on sick bed they will shelve the ego be running up and down the hospital mobilizing all the departments to help.

*UK HEALTH COUNCIL*

In united kingdom where our president and other senators often seek medical care, leaving our jeopardized health system being managed by minister of doctors over the years without meaningful development, but rather what we are experiencing are anarchy, morbid egocentric mentality, industrial disharmony, superiority complexes, and strong desire to head all departments. They have termed other health care professionals such as Physiotherapists, Nurses, Medical Laboratory Scientists, Pharmacists, Optometrists, Radiographers, Dieticians and Occupational therapists as Non medical Health workers and they are the only medical health workers in Nigeria. With this showmanship of ignorance and acute behaviour of catatonic schizophrenia found among medical doctors in Nigeria. We wish to explain how the UK HEALTH COUNCIL IS HEADED.

*UK Minister of State For Health- Stephen Barclay* ; - He studied Law at the College of Law, Chester.

*UK Secretary of state for Health and Social care- Jeremy Hunt MP* ;- He studied philosophy, politics and economics at Magdelen College, Oxford.

*UK Minister of State for Care- Caroline Dinenage* ;- She studied Politics and English at Swansea University

*UK Secretary of State for Mental Health and Inequalities- Jackie Dougle* ;- She studied economics at University College, Durham

*UK Secretary of State for Public Health and Primary care- Steve Brina MP* - He studied History from Liverpool Hope University

Is it not laughable that NMA is citing International best practices, I wonder where their own international best practices came from.

Concerned
UGONSITE
JOHESUITE

ashjay001:
Info will not kee us

Truth will always over take lies.

Since the current health workers strike in Nigeria, all the stake holders has been citing international best practices. The doctors under NMA and all other health workers under JOHESU has been at log ahead.

Both groups has been dishing out propaganda to the media. The doctors has claimed that they control all other departments and their services are at the doctors' beck and call, but JOHESU insists that the assumption is wrong. Doctors lack training and competence in some of these areas e.g physiotherapy/medical rehabilitation. They are doctors too, they assess, treat, rehabilitate and discharge with all diagnostic imaging and lab tests privileges. Optometrists too are doctors both by operations and designation, they have spent 6yrs in medical school yet NMA said they are just support staff.

Nonetheless, JOHESU Leadership has come out to accuse the NMA doctors of ignorance, greediness and myopic thinking. Dr. Adewole the current Minister for Health has been proven wrong in regard to international best practices.

There could be bias from the Ministers. Today, both the minister of labour, senior and junior ministers of health are NMA doctors so the JOHESU strike that has paralyzed the health sector is rather a thing of politics for the ministers. You often see them on TV interviews double speaking. There is no gainsaying that NMA has colonized and made their birth right the offices of:
a) minister for health
b) minister of state for health
c) CMDs of all secondary and tertiary hospitals
d) Deputy CMDs
e) CMACs
f) directors of 90% of all parastaltas and health related agencies
g) the list is endless
NMA said the reason for coveting these offices is because other health workers are not "medically qualified" even though they all finished from the same college of medicine; took same or similar causes together or as separate departments.

Let's look at the so called international best practices. Lets look at the ministers of health of following countries:

1. France minister of health
Morisol Touraine.
She is not a degree holder. Studied At Ecole Normale Supereure and specialized in Economics and social issues.

2. Germany minister of health
Jens Spahn.
Studied Political science and Law at University of Hagen.

3. Saudi Arabia minister of health.
Dr. Tawfiq Al Ravish.
Obtain bachelor degree in Financial management and Mathematics, then 2 masters in computer science and information science.

4. Israel minister of health.
Yaakov Litzman.
Studied Torah and his first job was principal of Yaakov Girls school and then join politics.

5. Spain minister of health, social, security and Equality.
Dolors Montserrat.
A Lawyer and politician. She specialized in Real Estate and Environmental Law.

6. India minister of health
Jagat Prakash Nadda.
He a graduate of Law at Himachal Prakash.

7. Canada minister of health
Genette Petitpas Taylor.
She has bachelor degree in Social work.

Non of the above ministers study medicine and they are health ministers of their countries. Yet Isaac Adewole and NMA are saying our ministry of health institutions most be headed by medical doctors, ie. the international best practice.

#copied and edited.

"The holy see" should just investigate Buhari for his 'deliberate' inaction about the massacre.

physicians claim island of knowledge but I have seen where nurses, lab scientists, pharmacists or physiotherapists avert the death of patients out of doctors negligence or ignorance.

I have seen experienced Nurses teach jittery young doctors how to carry out certain procedures.

mbos:
To an idiotic zombie
Twins bear same middle names
how you have paid Last month allowance
BMC

Eqwu di kwa

PRESS RELEASE

RE: JOINT HEALTH SECTOR UNIONS STRIKE: NIGERIA SOCIETY OF PHYSIOTHERAPY (NSP) POSITION

The Nigeria Society of Physiotherapy (NSP), the umbrella professional body of Physiotherapists practicing in Nigeria since 1959, wishes to draw the attention of the Federal Govenrment to the State of our health institutions and the injustice in the system that paved way for the on-going strike action by the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) in the hospitals. None implementation of past agreements and court judgments and neglected welfare issues of health workers as against an anomaly where only Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) members are taken care of since 2014 and enjoying specialized packages in form of CONMESS while JOHESU demands are ignored played significant roles in the situation we found ourselves.

The existing situation where only NMA members receive special treatment from the Federal Government through Federal Ministry of Health is unacceptable to us and we want to use this avenue to appeal to the Federal Government to look into the current imbroglio and bring succour to the affected health workers by putting an end to the hegemonic situation once and for all for peace and harmony to reign in our hospitals.

The practice of Federal Government giving preferential treatment to NMA members working under the jurisdictions of Federal Ministry of Health over all other health professionals started in 1991 with the introduction of special Medical Salary Scale (MSS) and Medical Super Salary Scale (MSSS) for medical doctors alone without consideration for other professionals working in the health sector. The action of the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Health again in 2014 to adjust the CONMESS Salary of Medical Doctors alone and subsequent implementation and payments of ALL accrued arrears by the Federal Ministry of Health under this administration is a continuation of the act of carrying out government affairs in a manner which fails to recognise the diversity of different professionals working under the jurisdictions of Federal Ministry of Health by giving preferential treatment to Medical Doctors alone in the conduct of its activities. This is against the provision of Section 13 and 14 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended.

RELATIVITY
It is necessary to state clearly that relativity has been granted to Medical Doctors when a fresh post NYSC Medical Doctor is allowed to enter the civil service on GL 12 while all other health professionals enter the civil service on GL 10 and below. The implication is that it will take years of practice for any other health care professional to attain GL12 where a fresh post NYSC medical doctor starts his/her career. It must be noted that salary of a fresh post NYSC Medical Doctor is higher than the salary of principal officers of all other health professionals. Relativity has also been granted to Medical Doctors after residency because they are allowed to enter the civil service on GL 14 which is equivalent to the position of Assistant Director for other health professionals. It takes other health professionals nothing less than 12-18 years in civil service to attain GL 14. Another relativity is tantamount to double relativity and this will not just be a bad precedence in health sector but every other sector in the federal civil service. International best practices make use of creation of entry level to determine relativity and not creation of new salary structure just in the name of relativity.

PARITY
What is parity? It simply means what you do to one side, you should do same to the other side of an equation. For instance if Government increases the salary of NMA members by X percentage, it should do same to the salary of the other workers in the same sector. This is also the principle of social justice. Therefore, JOHESU's demand for same percentage increase in salary on CONHESS as it was done for COMESS is right and justified.

Our demands are sincere and with the interest of Physiotherapy profession, other health professions in JOHESU and the Nigerian public as stated below.

JOHESU DEMANDS
1) Approve and Circularize Upward review of CONHESS Salary Structure

2) Payment of backlog of arrears as a result of CONHESS 10 Skipping.

3) Employment of more staff to strengthen the health sector

4) Release of Circulars for review of retirement age from 60 to 65 years

5) Implementation of NICN judgments in favour of JOHESU members.

RECOMMENDATIONS

To minimise or remove most of the challenges in the health sector, we suggest as follows:

1) The presidency should appoint a health professional of JOHESU extraction to pair with an NMA member for balancing, collaboration, functionality and development rather than appoint only NMA persons.

2) There should be only one salary structure in the health sector as it was under Harmonised Tertiary Institutions Salary Structure(HATTISS)

3) The entry point should be decided by job evaluation which has been achieved already.

4) Allowances should be a fixed percentage of the evaluated salary.

5) Appointment of CMDs and MDs should no longer be restricted to only one professional group but made open to other professionals in the sector who have the requisite qualifications and competence.

6) In the tertiary institutions, management positions should be diversified among the various health professionals.

7) There should be a department of Physiotherapy/Medical rehabilitation in the Federal Ministry of Health together with those of Nursing, Medical Laboratory Sciences and others.

All professions whose duration of training is Six years should enter the salary structure at the same level, GL 12, with General Medical Practitioners eg Doctor of Physiotherapy degree, Doctor of Optometry degree, Dentistry, Doctor of Pharmacy degree etc. Other University graduates with 5 years duration should enter on GL 10 while those with 4 years duration should enter on GL 9.

Once again, we make a passionate appeal to the Federal Government to step in and bring lasting solution and succour to health workers on this matter.

Long live Nigerian Society of Physiotherapy!
Long live Federal Republic of Nigeria!

Sgd

Dr Odusanya Oyinlola Felix, PT M.Sc., MNSP . National General Secretary

Dr Rufai Yusuf Ahmad, DPT, PhD, MNSP
National President

criminality to say the least.
All this money has entered into Nigerian Economy or will enter into Nigeria yet we are all hungry.

Let Lia Mohammed tell us not you.

nothernization

grass root politician