₦airaland Forum

ugojamali: After reading a lot of posts here I've come to be ashamed of Nigerians. We still have a long way to go. Most of us are educated illiterates. Now the issues. .

Many people say resident doctors are useless but what you do not know is that the residency training is currently the best scheme to make truly professional doctors. Resident doctors can never be compared to their counterpart medical officers in general hospitals and private hospitals. Because they undergo intensive training and their colleagues don't.

The best Nigerian doctors are made through this residency training that is why going to a teaching hospital remains the best option for patients looking for medical care. If you disagree then try ask yourself why private hospitals refer tough cases to teaching hospitals.

Consultants are products of residency training. They in part teach fresh doctors until they become consultants. And let me enlighten you. .. Fresh doctors know nothing. Forget about medical school. Fresh doctors cannot function without retraining and guidance from consultants so if you scrap the residency then consultants will no longer be obligated to teach fresh doctors.

What will Happen will be a systematic system of trial and error diagnoses by many locum doctors thereby crippling our health sector further.

Now let's take a look at some sayings that nurses work more than doctors. That's so funny and silly. While it is true that nurses probably care more for patients but nurses cannot diagnose illnesses. Their job is simply to administer drugs prescribed by doctors and ensure the patient's comfort. While it'st rue that many of them can make successful diagnosis for simple illnesses. .Do You Think they can diagnose cancer, organ failure, heart complications, bone marrow diseases, and other complicated illnesses? They cannot and will never be able to work without the direction of doctors.

I do hope Mr President reverses this decision. Because if he stubbornly sticks to it then this will turn out to be his most unwise decision ever. . Even more unwise than removal of fuel subsidy.

And for those of you who will bash. .I am neither a doctor nor a health practitioner. Just a concerned citizen who will lose faith in Nigerian health care if there are no resident doctors.

Nuzo1: I'm only hoping you are not a doctor cos you are a typical example of an agent of death!

First, if the way you cut and joined your opinion is how you prescribe treatment to your patients, then only the good lord knows how many souls you've wasted.

Secondly, your gross disregard and disrespect towards the masses (patient) and the nurses here is also a reflection of how you attend to them in the hospitals.

As much as I understand that doctors have not gotten the best deal in Nigeria as they rightly stated, I also understand that most of you are not worth the time the FG is giving you.

Lenzz: Mumu.
In '68, President Ronald Reagan sacked all aviation workers in d country when they got greedy nd where always striking like NMA nd the likes making outrageoous demand each time. That led to d eventual demise of that union
The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) and was considered as one of the most important events in late twentieth century U.S. labor history.
So now tell me; who's r.etarded blw you nd the President? Who's the imbec.ile?

This is just one of several precedents where elected leaders have taken ' painful but considered steps' to save their administration from perpetual castration from reckless unions with obvious vested political interests.

Next time do your homework before running to come spew trash on an elected President

skelewu74: I feel you should see this boy's picture.

Leopantro: considering that most of the writers here went to university, have a degree and could see nothing about bathing with salt last week goes to show that Nigerians get what they deserve. there is no point correcting such a group.

logic2014: my problem with una doctors b say una too dey try explain things in a logical manner. these people you are dealing with do not have the capacity to comprehend how medicine works. its not their fault they simply would not undastand. its like speaking chinese to an english man who has never heard a word in chinese. This fight has to be taken to the gutter then they would understand.

dotuna3: I think Mr president decision is as a result of the present pressure he has with the health sector especially with the Ebola virus. I think the doctors also shld help. I don't think with dis out break our doctors shld be on strike at all. I mean for what reason would they go on strike wen they knw hw challenging this Ebola virus is.

The doctors shld just forget this strike issue. Save us of Ebola den we Nigerians we fight for your right for you if Mr president refuse. Is it after the Ebola issue die down den u wanna surface? Indeed u earn no respect and diginity again from we Nigerians. Pls do what is right at the right time.No time to check time

jjwaterfalls: On my own point of view , for once am in support of GEJ's decision. I think his plan is a way of throwing confusion into d NMA so dat dey can come to dia senses dt dia demAndS ar unrealistic. But come to think of it why will doctors put money ahead of peoples lives, dey arent bothered becos I guess dey ar still receiving salary. It is rilly unfair. Ar dey d only workerS exposed to hlth hazardS? Wat abt d nurse who is with d pt 24hrs why didn't dey say dey want to die? Wat abt d lab scientistss and oda hlth workers?

Abeg goodluck ride on jare

deeobserver209: Point noted. But don't you think nurses are being relegated to the background? By my observation nurses carry out must of the treatments on patients. These people work harder than the doctors themselves if you ask me.

enny09: When government pay so much to train only doctors residency program in Nigeria and instead of doctors to be greatful they still threatened government with strikes, what do you expect government to do, now government will use the money to employ and pay only full term staff to work in the hospital, and if any medical professionals want residency program you will have to pay for it yourself, simple as ABC.

deeobserver209: I used to support these doctors but when I got to learn how political their strike dived into and their superiority complex, I withdrew my support for them.
The main bone of contention is the demand for the establishment of the office of the 'Surgeon General of the Federation' which they argue should be established to take care of Health care matters in the country, just like the situation in the United States.
But things got crappy when they insist that only Doctors be appointed as a Surgeon General. Arguing that doctors are more qualified for the position considering the amount of time they spend on their course of study. This didn't go down well with the nurses who feel that such plan would only subjugate nurses to the background. The nurses were of the oppion that the office of the Surgeon General should be left wide open for whoever will be qualified to occupy that position, be it Nurse or a Doctor. They cite an example with the United States were the current Surgeon General is a Nurse.

Leopantro: that means medical students cannot graduate to become doctors. Medical consultants automatically become medical officers because it's the training that gives the title. Medical governing bodies become redundant thus nobody to report to so malpractise becomes common place.

GOODLUCK TO ME, GOODLUCK TO YOU. GOODLUCK TO EVERYBODY........

You will need it.

vibrio: A bad move from the FG and Health Minister.
They have just succeeded in prolonging the NMA strike

The Federal Government, Thursday, announced the suspension of Residency Training programme in all Federal hospitals across the country.

According to a statement by the Deputy Director of Press, Federal Ministry of Health, Alhaji Isiaka Yusuf noted that the programme is suspended pending when all challenges in the health sector are addressed.

The statement reads:”The public could recalled the protracted strike action by members of the Nigeria Medical Association consequent on which untold hardship has befallen innocent members of the society who were in need of medical care.

“The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) made good its threat of 11th June 2014 by calling out its members on industrial strike action on the 1st of July despite the Federal Government’s successive intervention meetings and dialogue including extensive deliberations with the leadership of the NMA on 25th and 26th June 2014, where agreements were reached on each of the 24 demands and an MoU was signed by both parties.

“In the midst of the strike action, the Federal Government had also cultivated the attention and intervention of some eminent personalities in order to prevail on the NMA leadership to respect the ethics of their profession and end the strike whilst the dialogue is ongoing. These personalities included the Governor of Delta State, the Secretary to Government of the Federation, members of the National Assembly especially the Senate and House Committees on Heath respectively, the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Chairman, National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, the Honourable Ministers of Health, Labour and Productivity, the Honourable Minister of State for Health, Presidents and Registrars of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, the West African College of Physicians and West African College Surgeons, traditional rulers, eminent and senior members of the medical profession and past executives of the NMA.

“It should be stressed that the Federal Government has implemented more than 90 percent of its responsibilities as signed by both parties. At the conclusion of each meeting, the NMA promised to call off the strike but would return another day to say that they could not.

For the whole of July 2014, these doctors did not work yet government, owing to the emergency situation in our country, paid them the July salaries with allowances such as call duty allowance, teaching allowance, hazard allowance, etc. believing that this magnanimity of government would appeal to reason for NMA to call off the strike.

“This strike action can be considered as one of the most insensitive steps to be taken by any association or a labour union in the history of this country. Pertinent to the issue under discussion are the current security challenges in the country with the attendant mass casualties. The situation has been compounded by the recent importation of the Ebola Virus Disease into Nigeria on 20th July 2014.

“Following the Presidential declaration of a National Public Health Emergency on Ebola Disease which has united the entire country in the efforts to contain the disease, it is quite regrettable that the people who should take leadership role in the fight against Ebola disease are now the most unsupportive.

“All efforts by Government to contain this disease are being frustrated by the continued industrial strike action of the NMA.

“The Federal Government has therefore decided that Residency Training Programme in Federal Government Hospitals be suspended pending the conclusion of the ongoing appraisal of the challenges in the health sector.

“This directive is without prejudice to any emergency measure that may be necessary for the hospital management to immediately restore full medical services.

The Federal Government wishes to reassure the public that optimal medical health care delivery will be sustained in our hospitals, the statement reads.

customized13: I saw agip flyover under-construction, is it the second one or the one that has been completed years back.

LaRoyalHighness: If 'yes'..... so? ...

LaRoyalHighness: Okuta is calm now. *spits on our 'youth*.

dBard: oh really? so I can now leave home..
btw, why u scared? ? wat happened t ur Rotts n alsies? ? ur d.b shotgun? ??
**goes back t sipping his zobo**

stebell: supporters of APC formenting trouble since their creation.
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