He should not recaLl them. If people are okay with the current state of healthcare then it is okay

I pray they come to a quick solution. Gov fashola has shown recklessness as the governor. Do u knw that lasg planted flowers with billions,and yet cant shamelessly pay 30 million naira monthly for over 1000 docs. ALl the flowers have withered but i pray the lives of those unborn , the rate of mother and child mortality in these power show. Tertiary centres which serve as final destination are either not functional or full to capacity. A country that probably needs 200,000 docs and its citizens hail and applaud their sack less than 40,000 active. LAsg is proving a point with the lives of ordinary citizens..medical students are now used as pawns in the power show and people that have swallowed propaganda .fashola is trying to tell his boss tinubu that he has balls .because their lecturers have been sacked. Lagos is a selfsutainable climate economically with medical skill. People shud open up and wisen up

The problem in Nigeria is followership not leadership, based on comments or sentiments showed by the populace, i think they deserve what they obtain as healthcare, that is 2nd highest mortality and infant death rate in the world.A country that supports that brain drain,with one of the ratios such as 1 doc to 14,000 pxs .conmess was set up to stem brain drain both externally and internally.
I tell you it has worked, because people are coming back, a house officer can look forward to being an specialist currently and the people are better for it. In whose interest Lagos state goverment can afford it. a state that generates 15 billion monthly and estimates put sums required at 30 million monthly. there is no 200,000 fee what conmess pays at fg level is abt 178 for ho presently its 168 in lagos. tax on doctors is about 20% so many info are lies peddled by agents of the state.
medical students in lagos state pay as much as 400,000 per session in lasuth , now he sacked several professors of medicine surgery residents doctors ie almost specialists house officers, they have to start afresh their internship, they goverment has put accreditation of lasuth college of medicine at risk, and people are applauding govt actions.

In as much i admire fashola as a leader i am totally dissapointed in his
actions which were retrogressive, ego tripping with the lives of many poor lagosians, Luth and the rst are filled over 25 secondary health centres are not working well and people are satisied. in some comments i can see a frustrated nigerian youth where unemployment rates are unrecordable.
these greedy docs as u guys put it have been sacked, they are not the loosers, they are highly skilled and sort after
its d poor woman on the street that wud need abt 300 to see a doc

NMA Press Statement On The Face-Off Between The Lagos State Government And The Medical Guild



Our dear friends in the fourth estate of the realm, on behalf of the Nigerian Medical Association, I most warmly welcome you to this Press Conference designed to update you and the general public on our Association's views on the lingering crisis in the health sector of Lagos state, occasioned by the face-off between the Lagos state government (LASG) and the Medical Guild.

As you are all aware the current dispute between the Lagos state government (LASG) and the Medical Guild did not start today. It dates back to September 2009 when a new salary structure for medical/dental practitioners (the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure; CONMESS) was circularized by the government. Thereafter, between the months of September and November 2010, several meetings took place between the LASG and the Medical Guild with the aim of securing the implementation of Full CONMESS in Lagos state. These engagements culminated in a signed agreement to implement CONMESS by the Lagos state government, with the effective date of implementation put at January 2011.

Whereas, the public thought that the signed agreement was going to put an end to the face-off, believing that the LASG was going to faithfully implement the signed agreement, later events were to prove them wrong, as the public and members of the Medical Guild waited in vain for the full implementation of the signed agreement.

On account of what was perceived as the reluctance of the LASG to implement what she had signed as well as the introduction of compressed Salary Grade level steps for doctors employed by the LASG, the Medical Guild resumed her industrial action in the month of February, 2011. This was later to be resolved through the intervention of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu (former Executive Governor of Lagos State) who, along with the Commissioner of Health, Dr. Jide Idris, and the Chairman of Action Congress of Nigeria in Lagos state, Sir.Henry Ajomale, brokered an agreement on behalf of the Lagos state government on March 24, 2011, with promises that:
1) CONMESS will be paid in FULL to all doctors, with no compression of salary grade level steps; and
2) that allowances will be classified as non-taxable, with further welfare packages developed to improve the working conditions of all healthcare providers in the state.

Though the Medical Guild suspended her industrial action to give room for the implementation of the new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), she was disappointed that again the Lagos state government did not keep faith with her own part of the bargain. Sadly, all attempts at convincing the Lagos state government to faithfully implement the signed agreement ended in vain. Having waited for over 12 months with their demands unmet the Medical Guild resumed their earlier suspended strike action.

Since the commencement of the strike action by the Medical Guild, there have been several unsavoury events in the health sector of Lagos state, including the unprovoked intimidation, incessant police harassment and sack of over 700 medical/dental practitioners in the employment of Lagos state government, as well as the recent forceful eviction of the same medical/dental practitioners from their residential quarters.


MEDIATORY ROLE OF THE NATIONAL BODY OF NMA
Exactly a week ago at the 52nd Annual General Conference/Annual Delegates Meeting of the Nigerian Medical Association, the crisis in the health sector of Lagos state was deliberated upon. It was the resolution of the NMA that inspite of the degeneration of the crisis, the National body of the NMA should initiate a genuine dialogue of both parties in the dispute. This informed the constitution of a body of Elders commissioned by the NMA to go into dialogue with the Lagos state government.

Distinguished Men and Women of the fourth estate of the realm, the national leadership of the NMA came into Lagos state yesterday, Thursday, 10th May, 2012, to seek a mediated settlement of all the issues in dispute, with the aim of getting back on track the healthcare system of Lagos state.

Having secured an appointment with His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Lagos state, Barr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, a meeting took place between His Excellency and the President of the Nigerian Medical Association, Dr. Osahon Enabulele. At that meeting, the NMA President impressed on the Governor the need to urgently put the current crisis to bed through genuine dialogue, as it is in the interest of Lagos state government.

The Governor expressed his commitment to the resolution and directed the Head of Service to meet with the NMA to resolve the matter, with a promise to faithfully implement the outcome of our engagement with the Head of Service.

Sadly, after over 4 hours of engagement with the Head of Service of Lagos state, the Commissioner of Health, Dr. Jide Idris, Permanent Secretaries and other officers of the state government, the initiated dialogue ended in a deadlock occasioned by the fixated and vexatious position of the Head of Service that the Lagos state government had resolved to discipline her doctors the way she had done it, and that the matter was beyond him.

Whereas the NMA was resolved to sacrifice all the time to ensure a negotiated settlement of the crisis the mulish posture of a conqueror exhibited by the Head of Service acted as a wet blanket, hence the NMA thought it necessary to brief the general public on our findings and the way forward.


OUR FINDINGS/ OBSERVATIONS
1) Whereas the Lagos state government signed an agreement to implement, with effect from January 2011, a mutually agreed salary structure for medical/dental practitioners which will not put them at a comparative disadvantage to their counterparts in other health institutions, the NMA observes that this agreement by the Lagos state government has not been kept as the current operational salary structure for medical/dental practitioners in Lagos state clearly puts them at an obvious disadvantage with the extremely unexplainable and strange compression of salary grade level steps. This development not only amounts to salary losses, but more fundamentally conduces to a forced retrogression of the career paths of medical/dental practitioners employed in Lagos state as between 3 and 7 years of service to Lagos state government was swept away by this action. Additionally, the loss of steps by these doctors will also affect their retirement benefits, and puts them at a disadvantage if they chose to transfer their service to another government.
2) Whereas Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (former Executive Governor of Lagos state), Dr. Jide Idris (Lagos state Commissioner for Health) and Sir Henry Ajomale (Lagos state Chairman of ACN) signed on behalf of the Lagos state government, an MOU with the Medical Guild dated March 24, 2011, to pay CONMESS salary in FULL to all doctors with no compression of grade level steps, there is nothing to show that this agreement has been kept.
3) Whereas His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Lagos state, Barr.Babatunde Fashola, at one time approved and directed the payment of a mutually computed Salary/CONMESS salary structure which needed only an extra N29Million naira monthly, it is sad to note that between His Excellency's Office and the Office of the Head of Service, that promise and directive arcanely disappeared into thin air.
4) Whereas the Medical Guild wrote several letters to the Head of Service requesting for a meeting with the Lagos state government to sort out the outstanding issues, the Head of Service chose to officially ignore the Medical Guild as no official response to their request has been received to date.
5) Whereas, the Medical Guild out of frustration with Government's evasive tactics met and collectively resolved to resume their earlier suspended strike action, the State Government's response through harassment, traumatization of doctors, issuance of mass queries and sack letters, smacks of military dictatorship, totalitarianism and democratic insensateness.
6) Whereas NMA recognizes the right of all citizens to assemble and associate to protect their interest, as guaranteed by section 40 of the 1999 constitution (as amended), the NMA is unhappy with the attempts to fracture and decimate the Medical Guild. NMA totally frowns at this attempt.
7) Whereas the NMA recognizes the right of all citizens to express their fundamental right of freedom of speech, for all those who claim to be members of the Nigerian Medical Association by virtue of their registration with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, the NMA will not tolerate any reckless, unethical and fissiparous action by any of her members that seeks to put the Association or Medical Profession in bad light or into disrepute. Accordingly, all such members are warned to desist from such untoward and opprobrious acts.
Whereas the NMA notes that hitherto the Doctor-Patient population ratio in Lagos state was 1:14,545 (far from the African standard of 1:10,000 and the global standard of 1:1000), the current action of Lagos state will further worsen this ratio with poorer health indices (Maternal Mortality Rate, Infant Mortality Rate, Under-5 Mortality Rate, etc) bound to emerge on account of the reduced medical manpower and poorer access to healthcare.
9) Whereas the NMA recognizes the right of an employer to employ her staff, the NMA frowns at the on-going casualization of the Medical Profession in Lagos state, as exemplified by the purported locum appointment offered by the Lagos state Health Service Commission. While we challenge the Lagos state government to publish the full list of those she claimed to have so far employed, we urge all medical/dental practitioners to be very wary of such appointments aimed at denigrating the Medical Profession.


WAY FORWARD/RECOMMENDATIONS
1) While the Nigerian Medical Association appreciates the reception offered the NMA by His Excellency, Barr. Babatunde Fashola, it is the well considered position of the NMA that the current state of affairs in Lagos state demands a movement from Administrative grandiloquence and fantasy to Administrative Realism, by faithfully implementing all promises and signed agreements with the Medical Guild. The true test of a leader is his/her faithfulness to collective agreements, for Machiavellianism is never welcome in a people-led democracy.
2) While the NMA frowns at any attempt to assault the Medical Profession, we totally reject the on-going sack, publication of the salaries of medical/dental practitioners, traumatisation and forced eviction of doctors in the employment of Lagos state government despite the existing Lagos state Tenancy Law. We appeal to all our affected colleagues to remain calm as it is always darkest before dawn.
3) While we direct the state branch of NMA to explore all options she deems fit, the National Body of the NMA will be convening an Emergency Delegates Meeting soon, to review the current situation and take a national position.
4) The NMA restates her willingness to partner with the Lagos state government and other state governments in Nigeria in the task of enthroning quality, accessible and robust healthcare services. In particular, our doors of engagement are still open to the Lagos state government, and we sincerely hope this window is genuinely utilized.


STRIKE ACTION BY OTHER HEALTH WORKERS IN NIGERIA
While the Nigerian Medical Association recognizes the right of any citizen or group to advance individual or collective interest, we note that the current strike action by other health workers under the guise of JOHESU has no bearing on international best practices or professionalism of the health sector in Nigeria, as it is all a calculated attempt to undermine the professional status and position of medical/dental practitioners.

While we urge the Federal Government to do nothing that will further worsen the crisis in the health sector, we note with happiness the quality services being rendered by medical/dental practitioners in hospitals across the country. We wish to encourage them to remain at their duty post to render their best to their patients, despite all encumberances.


APPRECIATION
1) The Nigerian Medical Association sympathizes with the good people of Lagos state and sincerely appreciates all for their patience, support and understanding. We assure them that we shall zestfully work to end the current crisis.
2) We also wish to appreciate all individuals, groups and societies who have so far made effort to end the current crisis.
3) We appreciate all our members nation-wide for their tolerance, patience and understanding. We assure them that we shall always protect their individual and collective rights.

May God help us to rescue Lagos state from her current quagmire.

Dr. Osahon Enabulele, M.B; B.S, FWACP, MHPM
President, Nigerian Medical Association
Friday, 11th May, 2012
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ΤΗΕ ΝΑΤΙΟΝ Ιs owned by TINUBU and ACN. How can they now afford to pay 7500 - 15 k per day(150k in 10 days of 8hrs shift) to locum docs who are @ least 1yr post nysc to replace 2O-25 post nysc specialists. Medicine is an apprenticeship. Why would a goverment risk lives to score political points. Lasuth is the busiest teaching hospital in nigeria, with over 25 secondary health centres in lagos . All docs are saying is that they shud be payed accordingly to the wages stipulated in conmess agreeement they signed.Lasuth generates lots of revenue, with a couple of private settings.Lasuth school of medicine is abt 400,000. Whilst in OAU its 30,000 and whilst states like rivers, akwaibom, ekiti, etc are payin conmess Am a bit saddened by the rxn of some commentators here. - personally don't agree with strikes as a tool @ least. Emergency services, but fashola is making it protracted. I work in lagos. Luth is filled to capacity and people are really dying.We need solutions not steps that wud take us back

The whole sack issue is a joke.

M totally dissapointed in fashola 2nd term. Performance is poor. -I am a doc in lag. Lasg has escalated the problem, dissenting views among medical guild wud easily be rallied. The same goverments that collects close to 400,000 from med students in lasuth. Dr9ce is right lasuth house officerns earn abt 168 half of which no accomodation.Close to 12 states pay conmess, no excuses Lag iGR from ikeja Bola tinubu diagnostic centre within ayinke house is well enuf.


1000 doctors covering over 15 million lagosians.. Lagos docs are the most overworked most taxed most underpaid. Do u knw they are less than 5 active neurosurgeons in lagos. You wil be ammazed as the igr from lasuth and sch of medicine. Its bad move politically cos he will still reverse himself. "Luth is currently overflooded with poorer facilities than lasuth.

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I share sentiment with the op. Nigerian should forget we have oil issue it is sickening, maybe in 30 years time when reserves would be ve been exhausted, do u know what our population would be like in 30 yrs, we are on an unsustainable path, and we are mortgaging the lives of those that would be born in some decades.

But i share sentiments and similar distrust because goverment hasnt shown plans that the money would be efficiently used, so i support the protests. subs removal is ill timed and should be phased becaue of the massive unemployment and poverty around

egbere jo lantern

Mobil okota @ 9pm 65 naira perl litre full tank for abt 4k5

The cordinating minister of the economy has good plans for nigeria, even as it is now the 2012 budget is wraped with inadequacies,let's all tighten our belts, tariff electric wud increas by over 100 percent.

Security vote is 10 percent of montly allocation, its a slush fund for stealing, Do u know that by law the money saved would be distributed to d three tiers of goverment meaning that aregbesola would corner all funds that would be allocated to council members in his state since he has failed to conduct elections

We are importing crude derivatives and exporting jobs

I agree with subsidy removal, however goverment jumped the gun.a false start.we ve to call them back

Just got @ 65naira. We still ve some good men that are not taking advantage

Goverment is broke, don't u guys get it, ??If u are in Lasgidi Talk less pls,its 9am @NLC house Ojuelegba tomorrow back it ?with action

Am not pained bt the removal cos its inevitable and nigeria is broke.what would pain me wud be if its going to be shared among the three tiers of goverment.

This is unsustainable, we need to act drasticlally.

What pisses me off is d response from d Nema official that there are no ambulance, its well established that the golden hour determines the amount of fatalities. I wonder wat d socalles helicopter in abuja is doin just 10 minutes away

2nD explosion rocks jos

its quite big, they are accredited to train interns.

Abi ola do people really know that healthcare is expensive,

The management of the Sahara Group and SO Aviation Limited has read with dismay/alarm/interest the advertisement that appeared in The Nation Newspaper of Tuesday, December 20, 2011 and subsequently in other national newspapers on Wednesday, December 21. It is not Sahara’s policy to exchange advertorials on the pages of national newspapers but the false,
malicious and obviously sponsored allegations leveled against Sahara and its affiliate SO Aviation by a nonexistent association requires a measured, timely response.

We have retained the firm of Udo Udoma, Belo & Osagie to pursue legal redress against the newspapers that have published such libelous statements without verifying the facts first. If we find the so called chairman, Alhaji Muhammed Abubakar, of the nonexistent association, we will take similar action.

It is insulting to the office of The President that these faceless agents will try to manipulate Mr. President and all state agencies under his control using the advertorial mechanism in an attempt to frustrate competition especially from a company like SO Aviation that was the first independent company (non major marketer) to break into this hitherto very exclusive area of aviation marketing in the last 30 years.

It is uncanny that this publication was released shortly after SO Aviation won some major tenders in the aviation industry. We believe in the spirit of free competition that has made indigenous companies thrive against companies that wish to exhibit monopolistic tendencies whereby they are free to fleece the public at will. We will continue to resist every attempt to prevent competition in our business.

In response to some of the unfounded allegations,

1. SO Aviation is fully ISO 9001 2008 certified having been upgraded in 2011 from ISO 9001 2001 which was obtained in 2007.

2. Since 2009, International Air Transport Association (IATA) audits and certifications have been regularly conducted by major international airlines such as BA, Qatar, DHL, AIR FRANCE etc. All our IATA audits are verifiable and are freely available on request from IATA at www.iata.org

3. The international aviation quality inspectors, Joint Inspection Group (JIG) has audited and certified our facilities annually since 2009. SO Aviation is the only independent company in West Africa that is a registered member of JIG and has to mandatorily comply with the international standards that JIG subscribes to.

4. All products supplied to airlines, international and indigenous, by SO Aviation, strictly complies with Jet A-1 specifications as determined by AFRQJOS and DESTAN standards. We state categorically that NONE of our customers, national or international, have EVER (either this year
or in the past) stopped using our services due to a concern about quality of our product, processes or facilities.

5. Sahara Energy is not the sole importer of DPK for NNPC. Other traders also import for them. SO Aviation is not in the business of diverting products of any kind in any form or manner.




6. Sahara has imported Jet A-1 for many years, including supplies to Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAM) on behalf of their members. All major airlines we service, whether British Airways, Emirates, KLM, Lufthansa or others not listed remain our valued
customers.

7. SO Aviation, MOMAN and the regulators of the aviation industry are fully aware of the inherent risk of supplying products that does not meet specification and as a result the sector is one of the most regulated and safety aware in the industry. We ALL take safety very seriously.

8. The purported investigation into staggering monthly profits is a figment of imagination and intends to elicit panic and anger in the minds of ordinary Nigerians who are already anxious over subsidies and deregulation.

We know the article is malicious and it is clear that the purpose of the advertisement is to impugn Sahara’s reputation and damage its business. SO Aviation will, however, not be deterred in pursuing our policy of providing Jet A-1 in a safe, reliable and efficient and customer-centric manner to all our numerous customers.

Our commitment to Nigeria remains unwavering and we look forward to the day in the near future when people who make false and malicious petitions are made to face the consequence of wasting State resources and the public’s time in pursuing personal agendas.

God bless N

How are we sure that the story is not fabricated so as to lodge them out of the business. it may or may not be politics. i think the ppra should do their job

I am impressed with the budget proposal, now i look forward to the implementation

This a great forum to rebuild trust

@ tpia are u an ifumsite

The medical and dental council of nigeria have issues with them in terms of accreditation and meeting up to the basic requirement, i am certain GMC would have sort for a review with mdcn

Wallie:

I'm not sure I follow your logic. Increasing the number of importers will only raise the subsidy amount if, as a group, they're importing more fuel. If the consumption stays the same, it does not matter if you have 5 importers or 23 except if the number of importers increase the landing cost due to economy of scale. Then in that case, the government should just have them bid for the landing cost price of fuel. If 5 importers were selling at 115, the government can simply keep the landing cost the same for the 23 importers.

most of what the Nigerian government describes as subsidy can actually be termed to be the cost of systemic inefficiencies and a very high level of corruption within the supply chain
One shouldn’t expect anything less than calls for subsidy removal when provisions for factors like demurrage and interest rate are included in the computation for landing cost of petrol.
when over 23 oil importers as it is presently[img][/img] submit claims both false and geniue with collaboration with corrupt goverment officilas, then u wonder why subidy claims in 2011 was 1.3 trillion wheres in 2010 it was less than 500 billion with the world oil prices stable

I am suprised to see UNN, UNIBEN simply because they are first generation universities. Lautech is understandable
they had crisis between the oyo and osun state that jointly sponsor the university.Igbinedion university is a fraud especially their medical school, most of their consultants are visiting consultants, they even have accreditation issues with MDCAN. UNIBEN wow even with the succesful stem cell transplantation, its a wakeup call even to others, am certain they would bounce back, it shows the rot in the education system. Glad that oba awon unifasity Oau aint there