MEDICAL DOCTORS ARE POMPOUS AND UNCIVILIZED

Obadiah Umaru

The last time NMA went on strike, Nigerians from all works of life pressed on government to look into their issues so that our hospitals will continue to offer services to Nigerians

Today, the hospitals are again shut down due to JOHESU strike and unthinkably, NMA have been the most vocal, not in to quell the impasse but to fuel it. They are insisting that government should not listen to, or meet the demands of, JOHESU. Their reason for the meddlesomeness in the many press releases and media engagement is to keep wide the gap of earned allowance between them and other health professionals. This is selfishness and greed.

I ceased to regard any medical doctor since I took my ailing mother to the hospital in the early 2009 and got disgusting and irresponsible treat from a consultant. He attended to my mum then wrote drugs for us to buy. I asked what he was treating, he said he was suspecting septicaemia so we should try so and so antibiotics. I told him it sounds like guess work. He kept quiet. I requested if we could be sure of what were are treating, he picked offence and started shouting. Demanding to know if I wanted to teach him his work. I said I was the customer/client here and I should be the king. He said the only king in the hospital is the doctor. He was a young man so I thought it was untamed exuberance. While I was on the matter, a nurse came and over heard us, inadvertently, she asked if we has done lab test. The aggression with which the consultant shouted her down was marvelling. I wondered for a minute if it was his private hospital but I knew I was in a public hospital where all were employees of government. I asked why he addressed his colleague in that manner but he told me that the nurses and pharmacists were subservient to him. He told me how much he was earning and how much pharmacists earned, using it to justify his status. I was shocked.

I switched back to the prescription he had written and asked if we could be sent to the lab, he opposed it,saying that the most arrogant people in the hospital were the lab people. I asked how, he said, they have arrogated a title of scientists to themselves and don't want to work under pathologists. I was shocked as what that got to do with my mum's lab test. Within my 10min of being with him, he had skinned the nurses, the pharmacy and the lab alive. Then I knew the doctors were the real problems.

In summary, he insisted on treating without lab test. I was angry and left also without his prescription. I took my mum to a private laboratory and explained my situation. The lab tests showed leukemia and my elder brother in UK had to arrange for mum to undergo treatment abroad

Since then, I have followed keenly the disregard end humiliation that the doctors treat other health workers in Nigeria with the passive support of health ministers and commissioners. They often go the side of NMA during industrial disputes by quickly responding to demands of doctors and speaking English on demands others health workers.

I think the duration of study for doctors is only one year extra to pharmacists, lab scientists etc, yet they earn two times more than the non-doctors upon entering public service. Why is this so? Only doctors are heading hospitals and ministries of health in Nigeria. Why? This is not the case in other countries on Europe and Asia. Even the current DG of WHO is not a medical doctor. Where did the Nigerian medical doctor got his ego from to hold other health professionals in perpetual captivity? I call on JOHESU to break these ancient chains of slavery and emancipate themselves and our health system in Nigeria. The health system under ineptitude of medical doctors keeps recording abysmal indices year in year out to the extent that our President cannot find one health facility to treat ordinary ear infection.

I urge President Buhari to immediately sack the minister of health in view of his recent irresponsible comments on this ongoing strike. It is a pitiable anticlimax in our civilization

Lastly, the curriculum of MBBS should be reviewed to include civic education for would-be medical doctors in Nigeria. Their incivility is the cause of industrial unrest in the health system in Nigeria today

Oh dear, another doctor bashing thread again. This is getting too much.

Mods please close this thread.

When will it end?

greyham:
Oh dear, another doctor bashing thread again. This is getting too much.

Mods please close this thread.

When will it end?

It will not end.
Until the local champions that call themselves NMA amend their ways and stop their wickedness and greediness.

The ministers of health and labour need to be sacked as soon as possible. They cannot be judges in their own case.

Enough of the modern day enslavement!!!

All lovers of equity and fairness in Nigeria should join hands with JOHESU to prevail on the federal government to grant JOHESU's demands.

Time to act is now!!!

I don't blame johesu, poverty is biting.

if johesu like, let them strike for 2000 years. It's the silly majority of Nigerians supporting them that will still suffer, doctors will take care of their families. Private practice is booming.

ultron12345:
if johesu like, let them strike for 2000 years. It's the silly majority of Nigerians supporting them that will still suffer, doctors will take care of their families. Private practice is booming.

Let's wait and see if you or NMA will be the ones to win the majority of Nigerians!


See what will happen in the nearest future...

1.Ministers of labour and health will foolishly remain adamant because they are biased in favour of NMA since they are medical doctors themselves.

2. The strike would continue and many innocent Nigerians will unfortunately die avoidable deaths.

3. Pressures would be mounted on the government from different pressure groups, concerned prominent Nigerians and even from the international community.

4. The government would wake up from her slumber and get ready to act.

5. Ministers of health and labour would be shamefully removed from office and possibly prosecuted.

6. Unbiased persons would be appointed to replace the sacked ministers

7. JOHESU's demands would be sufficiently met

8. There will be a total overhaul of the healthcare system. Position of CMD would be proscribed and replaced by CEOs who are not medical doctors but seasoned and unbiased managers just like it is done in the UK. We'll have medical directors (physician) Pharmaceutical directors (pharmacist), directors of nursing services (nurses), directors of laboratory services (lab scientists) etc, all of these directors would enjoy equal rights and privileges and answerable to the CEO.

9. NMA would either go and die or go on strike. If they choose the former, better for them, but if they choose the later, the CEOs would place adverts immediately and employ better qualified med doctors from within and outside Nigeria to replace them. You will amazed as to how quickly they are replaced.

The above scenarios would play out if the strike lingers. Mark my words!

You think you are the only one in private practice Just pray that PSN does not stop drug supply to your private clinics. That is another event that would occur if NMA arrogantly continues to obstruct the course of justice in resolving the JOHESU strike. Then, you will use your poo to treat patients. I know you will doubt the possibility, but it will happen to your amazement. You can't win the majority my friend!

Jman06:
Let's wait and see if you or NMA will be the ones to win the majority of Nigerians!


See what will happen in the nearest future...

1.Ministers of labour and health will foolishly remain adamant because they are biased in favour of NMA since they are medical doctors themselves.

2. The strike would continue and many innocent Nigerians will unfortunately die avoidable deaths.

3. Pressures would be mounted on the government from different pressure groups, concerned prominent Nigerians and even from the international community.

4. The government would wake up from her slumber and get ready to act.

5. Ministers of health and labour would be shamefully removed from office and possibly prosecuted.

6. Unbiased persons would be appointed to replace the sacked ministers

7. JOHESU's demands would be sufficiently met

8. There will be a total overhaul of the healthcare system. Position of CMD would be proscribed and replaced by CEOs who are not medical doctors but seasoned and unbiased managers just like it is done in the UK. We'll have medical directors (physician) Pharmaceutical directors (pharmacist), directors of nursing services (nurses), directors of laboratory services (lab scientists) etc, all of these directors would enjoy equal rights and privileges and answerable to the CEO.

9. NMA would either go and die or go on strike. If they choose the former, better for them, but if they choose the later, the CEOs would place adverts immediately and employ better qualified med doctors from within and outside Nigeria to replace them. You will amazed as to how quickly they are replaced.

The above scenarios would play out if the strike lingers. Mark my words!

You think you are the only one in private practice Just pray that PSN does not stop drug supply to your private clinics. That is another event that would occur if NMA arrogantly continues to obstruct the course of justice in resolving the JOHESU strike. Then, you will use your poo to treat patients. I know you will doubt the possibility, but it will happen to your amazement. You can't win the majority my friend!

all what u wrote is what will be done to johesu. Johesu will remain foolishly adamant. Johesu staff will be sacked and quickly replaced with local and foreign staff. It's only a matter of time

ultron12345:
all what u wrote is what will be done to johesu. Johesu will remain foolishly adamant. Johesu staff will be sacked and quickly replaced with local and foreign staff. It's only a matter of time

Let's wait and see then.


Nowhere in the world has injustice ever triumphed over truth and fairness. Nigerian health sector will not be an exception.

Most doctors are not passionate about their jobs.... They are after money only

Jman06:
Let's wait and see then.


Nowhere in the world has injustice ever triumphed over truth and fairness. Nigerian health sector will not be an exception.

you are right, it will never happen. The injustice that johesu represents will never triumph