₦airaland Forum

lordkush:
nigeria is indeed a shithole

so because the minister of health is a doctor,

minister of state a doctor

Even minister of labour is a doctor

all the cmd in federal and general hospitals are doctors


wher 're the nurses, med scientists, pharmacists, microbiologists, chemists, these 're all professionals. they attended universities
just like the doctors.


as it stands now. a house officer the lowest cadre of doctors earn 180k. I have seen the pay slip of a friend that works in irrua specialist teaching hospital.

I'm neither a doc or a pharmacist or a nurse
but the disparity and cheating is too much mhen.


let's call a spade a spade.
Thank u for calling a spade a spade , but I will tell u that u don't even know what the spade is in this subject matter .
Have u studied the breakdown of the pay slip of the Doctor in question . compare the basic salary per grade level. U will see that the retio is just 1:1.5 level for level
What make the difference in the salary is CALL DUTY ALLOWANCE. Most other health workers run shifts ( except for those working in the theatre like periop nurses and anaesthetic nurses and they are being paid accordingly, their salaries are more than their colleagues)
My call duty allowance alone is over 80k . people that run shift work for less than 2wks in a month ( hope u know ?) - 6hrs daily , and all sorts of off duties, eg if they do 5 days of night duty is like a week or 5days off
Do u know what calls means ? U come to work normally , for house officers like 6am ( for IPR) and u will start u call to cover for all others not on call from 4pm till 8am the next day to continue ur normal work ( many times u won't even take ur bath and u will put on tie as if all is well!)
The call each doctor is supposed to take is 40units/ month maximum for normal function of the brain ( WHO standard and that is what is obtained in the developed world ) .This is what we do withing a week or 2 in Nigeria.
That is why u see doctors being pained when this people make reference to our salary and the public will Carry it without knowing the real operations of the health sector . Have u seen the table posted here compering doctors and other workers salaries abroad ? Did u ask ur self why they do not fight over there on salary discrepancy? , because they know their input and are highly satisfied with their profession .It can only happen in Nigeria. Lab scientists hanging stethoscopes and parading themselves docs .
Do u know it is a crime to introduce urself as a doctor without adding the next suffix to it abroad? Eg I'm Dr dash , a toxicological pharmacist, I'm doctor that a colostomy nurse . it is only medical doctor that can address him or herself as docs without adding any suffix . Not here in Nigeria , they will even put doctor on duty stickers on their cars.

Solababa91:
The Doctors are not on strike so they ought to be at work, whether JOHESU is on strike or not if they are not there then they should be answerable in an IDEAL SETTING. And mind you, I did not only mention Afghan in my reply, US, Europe and the developed countries of the world which we are looking up to their practices have these in their curriculum so why not we? I do not know your qualification but if you are aspiring to be a Prof wouldn't you be happy whenever someone calls you Prof even though you are not yet one. That we are happy to be called Dr means we know our worth and that patients too know our worth.

I am a proud Physiotherapists and also a proud member of JOHESU

TINO26:
Johesu has never asked to be paid same thing with the doctors, all they are asking is an increase to their pay!, I still can't understand why NMA is threatened with these demands,...allow others to grow there profession, and stop punishing the indigent patients!,...Are you guys the only professionals in this country?

abdulkayus:
guy, most medical students on internshipp do earn close to 150k if nt more than that every month, and he cant feed himself even with that amount, habaaaa, let reason well na. No matter d debt, he shld be atleast be able to feed for himself.
And most of them even earn more durin internship than wen actually workin except if dey are lucky to get a job with FG hospital which isnt easy to come by.