₦airaland Forum

DeBrain045:
Biafranic scornfuls done full this thread may i run for my life before they use me do Awguego for their family.

Tufiakwa indara

Ejimagift:
It's still a failed invention since they didn't get the biafra they crave for. I just pity this generation of ipobs disturbing the social media with threats of biafra when war couldn't bring biafra. Instead of fighting for igbo presidency, they are looking at a biafra that will never come

sonsomegrigbo:
[s]Are you referring to Nnamdi Kanu, the president of the pigs and idiots of the republic of Biafra?









PIGGIES amaka[/s]

SniperSmurf:
Musas goal was better than Messis goal by far.

JUSTICETHEO:
When it floods in the SS or SE you blame it on poor infrastructure and bad governance but when it happens in the SW it is climate change.

kitaatita:
How many world cups did we win when Buhari was not the president? Mentally deranged persons have adopted Buhari as an explanation for their ailment

Hedonisst:
This bastard son of a dog called Abayomi Shogunle is extremely irritating in the way he makes excuses for the filthy pigs called SARS. The fact that this kind of incompetent, sleazy wimp is a top ranking police officer fills me with rage. Nigeria is such a shithole.

Emekus92:
I ask this question b4 this world cup start.

when 1 African countries go get 1 star?

Will they ever get it?

EmpresFIDEL:
please friends i really need your advice. I have been dating him for 5yrs now, we love each other so much . but our genotype is giving us serious issue, we are both As and we don't consider brake up as an option. the pressure on my boyfriend from family and friends is making him want to dissolve the relationship when he still love me deep down and I love him too.. we are just too confuse. I don't want to lose him.

Jeez2:
Two types of footballers

megamank:
MBBS DOCTORS VERSUS MLS DOCTORS: NIGERIA A COUNTRY WITH TWO KINDS OF MEDICAL DOCTORS

Dear Hippocratic colleagues, it is no longer a news that medical profession is facing a great attack from the amorphous association called JOHESU. The current strike bear witness to this. Another dimension surface recently and that is the approval by NUC of MLS.D (Doctor of Medical Laboratory Science) program. A detailed review of the curriculum revealed that it is exact photocopy of the medical curriculum apart from surgery. It also contains other courses like entrepreneurship, computer science, core mathematics, law among others. This is the realisation of the 5 years strategic plans of MLS (2013-2018), most of the contents have been achieved and more are still coming before the end of the year. Also the old MLS will undertake a year or 2 years program to get converted to MLS.D and become medical (Lab Science ) doctor or medical doctor.

So what are the challenges that this MLS.D curriculum will pose to medicine and medical practice in Nigeria? Number one, with regard to the content of the curriculum vis-a-vis gross anatomy, embryology, histology, physiology, biochemistry and pathology; Nigeria will now have two set of medical doctors that is the Medical ( Laboratory Science ) Doctor and the MBBS medical doctor. This will be a great confusion for patients.

Secondly, the phrase " medically qualified " will be challenged again, trust the MLS -they will buy court verdict to be regarded as "medically qualified". The effects of this is the extension of the privileges of MBBS medical doctors to MLS medical doctors. This Include CMD/MD post among others.

Another issue is displacement of pathologists totally from the laboratory since according to their curriculum they will be trained to interpret laboratory results. Recall, that the NICN verdict of 2016 was in favour of MLS and it stated that MLS are the legal owners and should head the medical lab ( NUAHP vs OAUTHC).

Another pathetic consequence will be opening of hospitals, YES - HOSPITALS by these new medical doctors. medical consultation and laboratory work will be done together (this is already in practice in part of Lagos ). Some said, but they will never get involve in surgeries. I laughed, in Nigeria where nurses, CHEW, even auxiliary nurses are doing surgeries; how much more an individual with basic medical knowledge -anatomy, physiology, pathology. Therefore, it is not only the Pathologists that are threatened but all MBBS doctors.

The other complication is pay parity - entry level into practice will be same with MBBS doctors since their course is also 6 years with robust curriculum if not more robust that mbbs curriculum.

The use of the title "Dr" will no longer be for MBBS doctors only since MLS are also medical doctors now,other doctors to content with are : Doctor of Pharmacy, Doctor of Optometry, Doctor Of Physiotherapy and Doctor of Nutrition and Dietetics (the last too are coming up). May be Doctor of Nurses too. So the question will now be -who is "the doctor ". The privileges and honour accorded to MBBS medical doctors by the society will be extended to these "doctors ". These will include political appointment, headship of health institutions etc.

So what is the way out? There are solutions to the attack, I will rather share it on a round table with Hippocratic colleagues but NMA, MDCN, ARD, MDCAN, NIGERIA ACADEMY OF PATHOLOGISTS, THE MEDICAL ELDERS, DOCTORS IN POLITICS AND OTHER RELEVANT STAKEHOLDERS should convene and EMERGENCY gathering within the next one month to brainstorm on the way forward.

Concerned MBBS MEDICAL DOCTOR ( FETHI IDO-EKITI ) 23/05/2018