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by the way, those are request forms.

where are the histology results??

elevated PSA is also seen in benign enlargement.
this proves nothing!

that word is prostate no prostrate! they mean entirely two different things. grab a dictionary!
@OP........I would take a sick buhari any day over a hale and hearty Jonathan.


yaradua proved that a sick and dying leader can still be a "strong" leader.

These are the things they dont understand.
THE PHARMACISTS KNOW THEIR DRUGS- EFFECTS ON THE BODY,THE BODY'S EFFECT ON THE DRUG,SIDE EFFECTS ETC.....

.......BUT WHEN YOU INTRODUCE A DISEASE,THE PICTURE CHANGES......



the DOCTORS KNOW THE EFFECT OF A DISEASE ON THE BODY AND THE BODYS RESPONSE TO THE DISEASE.
IT IS THIS KNOWLEDGE THAT GIVES THE DOCTOR THE EDGE BY FAR! HE KNOWS HOW TO USE THE FULL PROPERTIES OF DRUGS INCLUDING THEIR SIDE EFFECTS TO GET RESULTS.

A WOMAN WITH A VERY PAINFUL ABDOMEN(acute) GOES TO A PHARMACIST. HE GIVES HER A STRONG PAINKILLER AND SENDS HER TO THE HOSPITAL.
A SEASONED DOCTOR WILL NOT DO THAT!

It begins!! i wonder which chapter is next?

JOHESU Suspends 2-Month Old Strike In Enugu


The Enugu State branch of the Joint Health Workers Union of Nigeria (JOHESU), has suspended its two month old strike.

The Chairman of the union, Chief Mathias Okonkwo, announced this at the end of its congress in Enugu on Friday.

Okonkwo said the suspension followed the outcome of a meeting the leaders of the union held with Gov. Sullivan Chime of Enugu State on Thursday.

The chairman said the governor promised to look into the implementation of the consolidated health workers salary structure.

He directed all workers to resume work on Monday.

Members of the union, including the Chairman of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), Comrade Maurice Eze, expressed hope that the government would keep to the agreement.

Members of JOHESU include the Nigeria Union of Allied Health Professionals, MHWUN and National Association of Nurses and Midwives.
source

^^^^^^^entourage......

john Wick

cao:
I personally enjoyed it, Peggy Carter kicks butt. Seriously, her brand of butt whooping is brutal - she beat one dude with a stapler. She gets s*** done, even though her boss & most of the guys at her place of work see her as a defenceless woman, and as Captain America's grieving ex-girlfriend. The first three episodes have been good so far, this season will only last for 8 episodes. The season arc is about her clearing Howard Stark's name and trying to solve the mysterious big bad of the season.

thanks...

marvels agent carter reviews please ....i dont want to waste my time.

OP... get a source!

take not of the bolded parts.... ** MODS,please consider this thread for the frontpage to make for a more robust discourse,thanks**

JOHESU had better come to their senses AND ON TIME TOO. The FG is not negotiating until after the elections and if JONATHAN WINS AGAIN, the recommendations of that report will be implemented.The FG is quiet and calm BUT i think THIS IS THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM!!
The FG will privatize many ancillary departments.... the pharmacies and labs especially.
JOHESU should IN THEIR BEST INTEREST call of this strike otherwise i forsee the different constituent groups pulling out one by one.
If the nurses decide to pull out,the strike is over!
JOHESU be realistic and return to work!

1. Introduction
The attention of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has been drawn to a newspaper adverorial by the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations (AHPA) on pafes 56 & 57 of the Punch Newspaper of January 7 2015. We are deeply concerned that a report just submitted to Mr . President has allegedly found its way into the hands of JOHESU and AHPA even before the government has had time to study its contents. We consider the comments on the report at this stage as rude, sad and highly regrettable.

2. Confidence and respect for the Yayale Ahmed Committee:
Notwithstanding this worrisome and ugly development, the NMA wishes to restate its trust and confidence in the ability and capacity of the distinguished members of the honourable committee chaired by a highly seasoned world class public servant and patriot, and membership drawn from Nigeria's best in their various disciplines to have, most probably, done an honest, clean and great job.


We observe with disbelief that the brazen transparency, unparalled accommodation of all stakeholders' input and strict compliance with global best practices which necessitated the Committee's study tour of various local health institutions and several countries of the world with efficient healthcare delivery ,didn't strike a note of reckoning to our agitating friends. We therefore, condemn in its entirety without any equivention the aspersions cast on the integrity of the members of the Committee.

3. Bane of the Nation's Public Health Sector:
It should be of great concern to any well-meaning citizen or organisation in this country that our health care system has been reduced to a pariah of an ideal health care system by persons entrusted with the responsibility of discharging the duty of care, due to inordinate ambitions, agitations and self-serving mentality of what the health care system should be as against international best practices. We wholeheartedly refuse to accept that Nigeria is a bababa republic where noting good can happen, and where anything good can happen, and where anything goes. As leaders in the health sector and the custodian of the people's health, we wish to assure Nigerian public that we shall do all in our powers to safeguard their health. Without order in the sector and strict adherence to best practices, all waste. We thank Mr President for finding space and time to seek out fundamental solutions to a protacted clogging issue crippling the Health sector.

4. Global Best Practice:
The Insitutionlisation of international best practice and clincal governance in our health care system will be one of the uncommon transformations currently going in different sectors of the economy in the country. We urge all workers, unions and associations in the health sector to align themselves with progressive move initiated by Mr. President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan in the overall interest of our people.
We shall reserve our comments on the main work of the Honorable Committee until government makes a pronouncement on the recommendations or we are obliged with a copy. Once again we stress our high regard for all the essteemed members of the Committee, and patriotically commend Mr. President, Dr Goodlust Jonathan for this bold step towars bringing to an end the intractable but avoidable crises in the health sector, and the many strides in innovative governance despite the so many inherited and emergent challenges facing the country.



5. Yayale Ahmed Committee Report:
We are not in a position right now to comment on the veracity or otherwise of the comments, allegations and suggestions put forward by JOHESU since we do not have a copy of the report and have not read it.
Nonotheless, the Terms of Reference given the Committee at their inauguration leaves no one in doubt as to the genuine desire of Government to take the issues in the Public Health Sector most fundamentally and holistically. However, going by our understanding of the character of the agitating organisations and the principal actors, we would not be surprised to learn that they would have misrepresented or outrightly falsified the alleged contents of the report in an effort to curry underserved and unnecessary sympathy of members of the public as well as influence the white paper. This is a stratey that has falled to achieve any positive result over the years, and has brought the health care system to its knees. Continuing along this line will be giving life to the widely held view that the agitators have an agenda of ensuring that the health sector under President Goodluck Jonathan's administration will never know peace. Their penchant for fueling unrests in the sector is a well-known phenomenon, but we do not see them succeeding this time.

6. Attack on the Yayale Ahmed Committee's Report:
This unprovoked attack occasioned by very premature insinuation of whatever lapses which only JOHESU and AHPA have allegedly seen has also gone far to confirm to all Nigerians the true identity of those truly engineering and fueling the crises in the sector. We had since 2011 posited that some demands and strikes by majority of Allied health workers have political undertones as these demands were self-serving, egocentric and of on value whatsoever to the advancement of health care. A situation where every professional or health worker in the health sector aspires to be designated a Consultant without clear definition of roles and command of authority continues to beat the imaginations of well-meaning citizens of this great nation and beyond. . It is verifiable globally that whatever roles any health worker plays in the care of the patient, the buck stops on the Consultant's table, who is accountable for the care of the patient. It sounds even more legally meaningful than logical for the patients, our clients, to have a particular professional to be held accountable and responsible for the care s/he receives. This is a global best practice which puts the responsibility of ultimate decision making and therefore culpability on the Consultant. Nigeria should not be an exception to this system of organisation which is natural in the healthcare setting. It is also pertinent to note that whereas the term Consultant may cannote some other meaning in the secular world, it has a single strictly applied meaning in the hospital. Since this is what JOHESU and AHPA are fighting against, our assertion that they do not mean well for Nigeria cannot be faulted. We have appealed times without number that the Health sector is uniquein structural and functional organisation and nomenclature. The whole world respects this, let's do same in Nigeria.

7. Public Private Partnership in Public Health Sector:
Let us once more use this opportunity to call on government to hasten the implementation of institutions taking a deep look at areas for public private partnerships (PPP). The closure of pharmacies and in some areas, laboratories, since thest two unions embarked on stike for about teo months now have provided a golden opportunity to truly determine what service areas that could be targeted for concession and for other PPP arrangements to enhance quality care, reduce cost of governance, drastically reduce service interruptions and without any adverse consequences. Patients have procurred their drugs from registered pharmacies outside the hospitals without pains and in settings blessed with pathologists and laboratory medicine resident doctors, laboratory services have gone unimpeded. There are lessons to be learnt from this.

8. Job Description:
We have also posited and advised that job designations/descriptions and professional roles should be defined by the direct employing authority at the point of engagement rather than being left to a broad assumption in the mind of the newly recruited. The era of generic job description and universality of schemes of service and cadres which is susceptible to all forms of abuses has become obsolete.
Borrowing from international human resource management ideals in this regard would save the nation so must pains and anguish festered on it by the suffocating fight for recognition, award of roles and appellations and other self-seeking agitations which are witnessed in the public health sector today.
Private health institutions in Nigeria, as elsewhere, have long adopted these international best practice, which explains the peace, harmony and efficient service delivery witnessed in that setting which is also serviced by the same admixture of professionals as in the Public health sector. This is the time for government to call JOHESU/AHPA to order and tell all enemies of Nigeria that enough is enough.

9. Appreciation of Nigerian Doctors:
NMA wishes to appreciate all her members in the public health sector who have continued to render medicare to Nigerians to the best of what the prevailing circumstances could allow and reassure our compatriots that we would continue to give our all to care for them. All doctors are urged to remain vigilant, and to ensure they participate fully in the forthcoming elections by ensuring that they exercise their franchise according to their convictions.

10. 2015 Elections
We also appeal to all Nigerian youths to refuse to be used by any politician, no matter how highly placed or related, to foment trouble or violence before, during or after the elections. Your families need you. Some of the children of the politicians are probably already abroad for political reasons. Let all losers in the election seek recourse to the law for redress. Violence is not an option.

Finally, we call on all candidates for the forthcoming elections to base their campaigns on issues and not on personality or resort to use of foul languages.

We wish Nigeria and all Nigeirans a very peaceful and prosperous 2015.

Signed
Dr Obitade OBIMAKINDE
Chairman, Publications and Publicity Committee,
Nigerian Medical Association.

SOURCE

Zeus777:
isnt it the same yayale commitee findings u lots where clamourin for??Now that what's obtained in sane climes Hv been thrown at u by that same commitee, you are here formulating a conspiracy theory of ur own....continue in ur delusion!!!

dont mind them... they think the NUC is also NMA. why are you clamouring for a new faculty when MLS is under basic medical sciences why
JOHESU is hellbent on causing trouble just because we have i.diots as leaders and a weakling as president.

under OBJ,who born JOHESU to come out and make such outrageous demends?

everybody agreed to abide by the outcome of that comitee. why is JOHESU rejecting it? they were looking foward to the outcome of that comitee even more than NMA. they had more influence or representation than NMA.
all their constituent associations were fully involved in that comitee. they attended meetings not as JOHESU but as pharmacvists council of nigeria, nigerian association of nurses and midwives,association of radiographers in nigeria,medical lab scientist association etc.

the only body representing doctors was NMA. NARD was absent!!! JOHESU were more involved as their different associations than NMA. why are they now rejecting the report

this is just a classic case of the butterfly calling itself a bird and yayale ahmed and his commitee were able to see just that!

Zeus777:
in medical residency Govt pay for ur revision courses and of Ofcourse a resident dr gets paid salaries cos while studyin he is also expected to treat patients, take calls , do surgeries e.t.c hence while still training to bcome a specialist he also treats patients; which is the main reason y d patient came to d hospital in the 1st place . Also note that a medical residence is disengaged from duty ( he bcomes unemployed ones he/she passes d fellowship exam.)( a fresh specialist dr is synonymous to an unemployed individual . He would go around wt his or her now specialist certificate to look for job afresh in order to be referenced as consultants. This johesu wants "residency" but don't know what it entails. Are they ready for the govt to convert their permanent employment to a temporary ones? I bet not

the bolded is the main thing? are they ready NO!!! no JOHESUite will want to be a temporary staff because of consultancy...

drered:
How would you know why they are dissatisfied if you haven't seen the recommendation? JOHESU and its members were present while NMA/NARD were missing and we should just take your word for it? If it was the other way round would you take the same stand? You are bias chief, expectedly so anyways..

NMA was present. NARD was missing.

why is JOHESU crying foul over a report that was churned out by a NEUTRAL commiteewhy?
they are already accussing NMA of influencing the report. i guess we should also relax and take their word for it abeg!!

Oduduwaboy:
Abeg wetin Yayale Ahmed report talk sef, i hear sey the thing done ready?
Meanwhile, government will stop JOHESU salary from january ending and this charade will be over within one month!

they are already picking holes in the report.

By the way,moderators,please do the needful for this thread. this thread is a far better frontpage material than patoranking visiting daddy showkey for spiritual blessings....

for those who dont know,the federal govt set up a comitee headed by yayale ahmed to address once and for all,the bickering in the health sector.
JOHESU and its constituent associations were fully involved in meetings with that comitee. infact a few MEDICAL BODIES/ASSOCIATIONS WERE MISSING.

either the NMA or NARD was absent in meetings with this same commitee and infact many doctors all over the federation expressed their dissatisfaction on their facebook wall with that.
Johesu tried anyway to influence the final outcome of the commitees report.

now my question is...why are they dissatisfied with the 50 recommendations of the commitee?
could it be that the commitee actually did its homework,comparing the health sector here with the sector in other countries??

What exactly does JOHESU WANT?? do they really think in their wildest dreams that they will be allowed to lord it over doctors?

my fellow doctors, your opinion is needed in the following thread.....johesu picks holes in yayale ahmed report....

tdayof:
How any cats can you see?

1 cat!! the others are reflections!!!

useless movie!!

congrats bro...the sky is your starting point!!!

IMHO......constantine is the only good show based on DC comic characters. the others are crap.

arrow-rubbish!
the flash- arrow spinoff...so,also rubbish!
Gotham- okay,not wonderful.

philfearon:
DC COMICS is really sh*ting on MARVEL COMICS in the series World Right now!!
GOTHAM
ARROW
THE FLASH.....

......and Constantine!!

donhils:
No, I didn't say House of cards is not interesting, I only said it's overrated. The way people talked about it made me to rush into it; it was cool to watch but nothing out of ordinary happened. At least it's way better than The newsroom in my opinion.

the beauty of HOC is in the dialogue.
get the subtitles. I could point you in the right directions if you want.

Calculia:
Let us not forget the conversion of Enugu into an aviation hub. They nearly killed Stella Oduah for dat. Enugu International Airport nearing completion. We have got more from GEJ than all the previous president put together.

the one that serves as a seaport when it rains? say something else please.

PDP thinks otherwise. 2015 is not far!

i keep asking myself how we the igbos became this politically naive its frightening!