MistadeRegal:


Yea but he can vacate his office for his people to chase mouse around. They're only good at that.
Anyway, what do you expect from a man who downgraded his own wife at a foreign public event?

mansamusa08:


Trained physiotherapists indeed!
Physical therapists who can not rehabilitate common stroke patients those ones are well trained?

Johnrake69:
First class in ass licking. Men who do not stand for anything. How can a bloody professor in charge of of health system make sure an embarrassing statement in a bid to justify the medical tourism embarked upon by the presidency

MistadeRegal:


How do you expect him to hand his son over to you when he considers you all as lazy, uneducated and fantastically corrupt?
Answer me NSP....

Greyworld:
Its indeed a precarious situation.

Greyworld:

There are qualified personnel for "commoners" not worthy to touch the King's son.

frank41:




Mtchew tot you have beta thing to say oga...From all indications, u studied physiotherapy.....you beta go and pick jamb form nxt year and apply for medicine rather than waiting for tanker chidiebere....see you see professional exams.....what has keke gat to do with seat belt....physiotherapists indeed.....what is your work as a physiotherapist...physiotherapy is inconsequential bro...the dumping site where med.students that failed out from med. are accommodated and celebrated.Hide you face oooo...Ask polytechnics that went on strike based on having Btech equivalent as certificate,how they ended.If the Fed.does that...we doctors will go on strike too...monkey dey work baboo dey chop!

Buhari’s son’s post-operative: ‘Nigeria has over 750 trained specialists to handle such'

Buhari’s son’s post-operative: ‘Nigeria has over 750 trained specialists to handle such'

Nigeria Society of Physiotherapy (NSP) says it has over 250 trained specialist Physiotherapists in Neurophysiotherapy and over 500 specialist trained Orthopaedic Physiotherapists who would have conveniently carried out President Buhari's son's post-operative rehabilitation if they had been invited.
NSP was reacting to a statement credited to the Minister of Health.



"Our attention has been drawn to some misconceptions which have arisen from a recent interview granted by the Hounorable Minister of Health on channels television program hard copy. The minister claimed that the president's son did not go abroad for treatment but for rehabilitation thereby suggesting that rehabilitation was not a form or part of treatment, " NSP said in a statement signed by its National PRO Peggy-joe Odili-Olaseinde.

It asserted:" We consider the Minister's response to the question by the anchor of the programme that Mr President's son had to go for rehabilitation abroad, when he was treated by Nigerian doctors as a tacit validation of allusions that other health professionals do not have the competence required to deliver quality healthcare- a position the NSP has always found ridiculous."

According to NSP, they had been inundated with calls inquiring whether there are no qualified Physiotherapists in Nigeria who could have undertaken the Rehabilitation aspect of the management of the President's son after he was treated by Medical Doctors.

It pointed out that physiotherapists are skilled to provide care in several areas, stressing, "NSP frowns at any deliberate attempt to undermine the contributions of the Physiotherapy profession to a holistic approach to management of health conditions especially orthopaedic and neurological conditions."

According to NSP, "an average physiotherapist's work is most physically demanding, with heavy caseloads (especially as most Nigerian Health Institutions have shortfall of physiotherapists)."


"We encourage the Ministry of Health to provide logistic support for the employment of physiotherapists and give due recognition to the training of specialists in Physiotherapy across board, “it stated.

frank41:




Is not legitimate....Don't tell me that as a medical lab. Scientist or a physiotherapist....that you passed thru all the rigors that a medical doctor went thru? How many MBBS exams did you write and how many resit did you had.your works are always on shifts....while doctors are always on calls....what stoped those agitating from studying medicine? Lol

frank41:




Is not legitimate....Don't tell me that as a medical lab. Scientist or a physiotherapist....that you passed thru all the rigors that a medical doctor went thru? How many MBBS exams did you write and how many resit did you had.your works are always on shifts....while doctors are always on calls....what stopped those agitating from studying medicine? Lol

neonly:
APC nd lies

frank41:


You can say that again bro....their strike has no basis...shame on them...those doctors they are striving with ended up treating them.

CeoNewshelm:
At least 19 members of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) sustained injuries in an accident along the Benin-Auchi Road on Saturday.

The workers are said to be staff of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) chapter of the union.

According to Channels, 40 of the health workers were on their way to a function in Auchi when the accident occurred.

The injured victims were subsequently rushed to the Otibho Okhai Hospital in Irrua, Edo state, where they were being treated by doctors and consultants on duty.


Esteem Tagar, president of the association of resident doctors at Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, who confirmed the incident, said no life was lost in the accident. The union has been on strike since April 17.

Part of the health workers’ demands include upward review of their salaries to be at same level with the doctors, a request both the federal government and the doctors kicked against.

Others are improved facilities, employment of additional health professionals, implementation of court judgments, upward review of retirement age from 60 to 65 years, and harmonisation of salaries of all healthcare workers in the country.


The National Industrial Court in Abuja, on Thursday, ordered the health workers to resume work within 24 hours but JOHESU asked its members to continue with the strike.

The union has “relaxed” its strike in Lagos, Kano, Yobe and Niger states, but called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack Isaac Adewole, minister of health, for allegedly taking sides with doctors in the ongoing strike.

http://newshelm.ng/photos-doctors-treat-19-striking-health-workers-involved-in-motor-accident/

cc lalasticlala mynd44

optm:
in our various trainings, we hv areas dt are given more attention because it is more relevant to our primary job spec. there re areas of pharmacology a pharmacist ll do better dan u as well as areas u wld do better due to d attention given in training based on its relevance to carrying out primary duties. a newly grad pharmacist is nt all grounded in evry areas that's why there re consultancy areas to mk dem authority in their chosen area of interest. i think a clinical pharmacologist shld be able to giv answers to ur questions. we all had diff trainings to enable us carry out our specific duties. it's childish trying to mk comparison in order to find out who is better. let's learn to hv respect fr one anoda.

TempoJames:


I am sure you don't understand why a medical doctor has no license to start a pharmaceutical company and why a pharmacist can't start a hospital.
Your question of why a medical doctor is in better position to head others will only be answered if u do an indept study of course contents of each field. Only then would you know a medical doctor has superior knowledge in all allied-fields as regard patient management. The hospital setting is not concerned about drug production but its use of which doctors have superior knowledge.
The same pharmacology a pharmacist studies for 3yrs(3l to 5l) is what a med doc studied in a year.
In UNN I studied pharmacology for 6months indepth no topic left out with true/false and negative marking and close marking applied with tendency to repeat or fail out if you fail. I exhuasted Tripathi text of pharmacology. Some times Lecturers finished by 9pm and you come back so exhuasted and tired and still have to read against the next day or accumulate work to your detriment.
Medical doctors are trained to carry knowledge in bulk. The same course others spread out and write semester by semester for 3 years is what a med doc exhausts under stress within a year or less and write exams across(not in parts). Those in medlab,medrehab,medradio, nursing will attest to the fact that their semester exams were used as continous assessment for medsurg students. They never wrote Mb. Last time I went to UNTH as visiting pathologist, the above academic regulations still holds true. Go and confirm and check the pass rate of their last 2nd mb and proof me wrong. Last year I heard only 12 out of 60 passed in dentistry others either failed out or repeated. currently they are 150(against 15 qouta) dentistry students and 325 (against 150 quota)medsurg students in YR1 my 2 kid bros are in pharmacy 500L and medsurg 400L UNN. I have first hand info from my colleagues over there too.
I remember in 2nd mb only 141(+resits) out of 335(including dentistry) passed . Abt 102 repeated 3rd yr and 98 failed out. I remember what happened that night the result was pasted around 9pm after 11hr long meeting by faculty boards. Many cried that day. A colleague that failed out even wanted to commit suicide.Tell which other health fields are subject to such truama. Yet you want to be doctors through the backyard without being test/baptized by the fire and ego of MBBS
Idiots!

TempoJames:


Yes I'm deaf, daft and illiterate but I will be the one to conduct your autopsy after you might have died from hunger.
Cause of death will be: Hunger secondary to Johesu strike and insurbodination.

phemy2kme:
THE HIPPOCRATIC LOATHE – Flicking the switch

“Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.”
― Hippocrates

When you step into a room and flick a switch, you either create light or you create darkness, in this quagmire of unnecessary dark rancor let us flick the switch and create light.
International best practice is defined as” A program, activity or strategy that has worked within one organization and shows promise during its early stages for becoming a best practice with long-term sustainable impact. A promising practice must have some objective basis for claiming effectiveness and must have the potential for replication among other organizations”, meaning we will adopt an already developed and proven process or strategy and make it our way of life, in short copy and paste, or we set a precedence of chaos and hope others will copy it as international best practice exported from us to them with love.
Internationally, every professional working in the health sector apart from Medical Doctors and Nurses are referred to as “ALLIED HEALTH WORKERS” who are support staff to the aforementioned, locally in Nigeria they are referred to as “JOINT HEALTH SECTOR UNIONS” (JOHESU) that comprises the bulk of the work force save the Medical Doctors.
When you or your loved one goes to seek medical attention from qualified and well-trained personnel’s, a machinery is set in motion around you, which comprises these support staff and the medical personnel. The record staff opens a new case note for you or extract one you used in your previous visit, he passes this case note on to the nurse, who checks your vitals and gets you ready in the consulting/examination room for the Medical Doctor.
The Doctor asks you series of questions, your answers direct his train of thought, with a few differential diagnoses at the back of his mind, he examines you, which helps him to remove from or add to the list of diagnoses, to rule in or rule out options from this list, he orders for tests ranging from Imaging, body fluids examinations to tissue examinations.
These tests are carried out in different locations by medical doctors / JOHESU members, E.g A radiographer in radiology department will shoot the x-ray as he was trained to do, he will then pass the film, after developing it to the medical doctor in radiology department, who is a specialist to interpret the “picture” appropriately as he was trained to do, this radiographer and medical doctor only knows of your radiological report. You then proceed to the laboratory as directed by the medical doctor in the consulting room to chemical pathology laboratory, medical microbiology laboratory and haematology laboratory, different specialist medical doctors and laboratory technicians in these laboratories will run your body fluids and blood samples as they were trained to do, the medical doctors will write the reports and send same to the medical doctor in the consulting room, the doctors and the laboratory technicians are only privy to the reports obtained in their respective laboratories.
After all these, you will go back to the medical doctor in the consulting room with the gamut of reports, which will help the medical doctor to confirm the diagnosis he had on his mind or which will point him in another direction, after marrying your clinical presentation to the laboratory reports, he will make his choice of treatment, you will get an appropriate prescription detailing name of medication (drug), dosage of medication, mode of administration, frequency of usage and duration of usage of the drug. This is passed on to the pharmacist who will dispense the drugs, identify each one for you, explain mode of administration of each to you, often at times you will have to go back to the nurse for the administration of some of the medications, or to the medical doctor and some will be self-administered by you in your house, after which the records officer files your case note appropriately for subsequent usage, at the center of your care is the medical doctor in the consulting room holding all the pieces together and seeing the big picture, he is connecting all the units to give you a diagnosis and ultimately treatment, no one has the right or training to play this role save the medical doctor. Spending donkey years at the medical doctors’ elbow or shadowing him does not confer on anyone by default the right to play this role, unless you go into a university to study medicine as a course and swear the Hippocratic oath.
Doctors are responsible for protecting your personal information and data, hence the parlance, patient doctor confidentiality and not patient health worker confidentiality.
National Medical Association was founded in 1900 in the United States of America, while the counterpart Nigeria Medical Association was formed in 1951.
Following WWII, healthcare needs and demands increased, the Allied health workers was formed in 1967in the United States to support the work of medical doctors which will allow him concentrate more on diagnosing and shedding some weights to the support workers.
In 1976 the medical and health workers union of Nigeria was formed, which is a precursor to the hydra headed unequally yoked body, dubbed JOHESU.
It is very easy to become a medical doctor anywhere in the world, just meet the admission criteria, in Nigeria, you have to beat the JAMB/UTME cut off point, which Is usually steep, at this point no one clamors for “score parity”, “equity not equality”, everyone keeps mute and follows their chosen paths willfully or fatefully, after 1 year of general courses with other departments, the workload of medicine thereafter is something light but it is not for the faint hearted, in 2 years you finish 3 degree courses, that have students studying them independently for 5 years, following which you cross over to the clinicals where you earn 2 more degrees in 3 years, all these makes up the super degree MBBS (actually 4 degrees in 1).
After the 6 official years in school, 1-year internship and 1 year mandatory service to the fatherland, a medical doctor chooses his path, either he works as a medical officer or enroll for postgraduate study/service (residency), this takes another 6 years on the average of intense postgraduate studies, at the same time you are offering your service as a medical doctor (you are a graduate with a super degree, remember?) to the center where you are undergoing training, this chimera confuses the uninitiated who will call you, a student doctor (what a display of paucity of adequate cerebral functioning), following passing the prescribed professional examinations you become a specialist, you have invested on the average 14 years of your life in knowledge seeking and proper education as a medical doctor.
Let us create darkness on the call for “pay parity”, “equity not equality”, which is double standard anyway, with the definition of international best practice still fresh on our minds, let us turn our searchlights to the medical “eldorados” of this planet, to save time and space we will look at UK and USA.
USA is officially divided into 9 regions;
NC – north central, GL – great lakes, NW – north west, SC – south central, SE – south east, NE – north east, SW – south west, W – west, MA – mid Atlantic,
we will compare the pay of medical doctors with that of pharmacists, optometrists and nurses (they are the highest paid JOHESU units) in these regions.

NB: Pay is average per year for the top earners across the states in each region.

MEDICAL DOCTORS
NW – $ 301,000 GL - $ 303,000
W – $ 290,000 SE - $ 297,000
SW - $ 292,000 MA - $ 282,000
NC - $ 317,000 NE - $ 296,000
SC - $ 300,000

PHARMACISTS
NW - $ 125,850 GL - $ 115,160
W - $ 136,730 SE - $ 117,690
SW - $ 118,360 MA - $ 122,230
NC - $ 113,720 NE - $ 125,680
SC - $ 126,460

OPTOMETRISTS
NW - $ 126,200 GL - $ 113,880
W - $ 115,260 SE - $ 107,200
SW - $ 93,340 MA - $ 127,940
NC - $ 107,360 NE - $ 140,880
SC - $ 118,950

NURSES
NW- $ 75,350 GL - $ 64,430
W - $ 94,120 SE - $ 61,780
SW - $ 97,040 MA - $ 58,760
NC - $ 56,350 NE - $ 60,700
SC - $ 66,350

These figures are self-explanatory, we don’t need a PhD in mathematics or accounting to see the obvious, let us move over to the United Kingdom (UK), this country is, made up of Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. We will compare the pay of medical doctors with that of pharmacists, physiotherapists and optometrists in these regions.

NB: Pay is average per year for top and lowest earners (medical doctors) and top earners (JOHESU)

GREAT BRITAIN
Medical doctors
Consultants - £ 82,000
Private practice - £ 103,000
Public - £ 60,000
Residents - £ 40,000

Pharmacists (experienced)
All sectors - £ 50,000
Physiotherapists (experienced)
All sectors - £ 19,000
Optometrists (experienced)
All sectors - £ 44,000

NORTHERN IRELAND
Medical doctors
Junior doctors - £ 34,500
Consultants - £ 84,000

Pharmacists (experienced)
All sectors - £ 33,344
Physiotherapists(experienced)
All sectors - £ 38,077
Optometrists (experienced)
All sectors - £ 48,634

SCOTLAND
Medical doctors
Physicians - £ 67,317
Surgeons - £ 89,325

Pharmacists (experienced)
All sectors - £ 38,653
Physiotherapists (experienced)
All sectors - £ 30,000
Optometrists (experienced)
All sectors - £ 36,521

WALES
Medical doctors
Junior doctors - £ 35,000
Consultants - £ 84,641

Pharmacists (experienced)
All sectors - £ 39,417
Physiotherapists (experienced)
All sectors - £ 38,035
Optometrists (experienced)
All sectors - £ 42,147

Looking at what is being done in the land of the Queen that is attracting so many of well to do Nigerians, politicians and medical doctors, we can see without having a degree in mathematics one of the reasons why we flock that way, for your information, health sector budget in UK for 2018 is £ 124.7 Billion (# 1.7 trillion), another reason we take the leap.
This imbroglio has gone on for too long, we need to put an end to it, there is no where in Gods own world, that the proposed madness is taking place, this situation is taking its toll on all of us, we are Nigerians, we reside in Nigeria, we access healthcare in Nigeria, a group of people should not continue to hold us at ransom and be wasting our lives and the lives of our loved ones because of their own selfish immoral interests.
I am a medical doctor, I chose to be one, I enjoy being one, if I have a second chance at life I will be a medical doctor all over again, I will save as many lives as I can, that is who and what I am, I swore to the Hippocratic oath which you loathe.

DR FEMI OBAFEMI.

TempoJames:



Davido remix: Johesu think say dem bad pass us but nobody badder ku

Joshesu if no get money hide ur face...fire burn them.

Johesu strike has already failed in Lagos....
Some workers have start returning
NMA is boss
pathologists are bosses
Radiologists are bosses.
Johesu bhad but doctors bhaddest.....

The same court that passed Judgement in favour of Johesu has now order suspension of strike.
Johesu wake up to the reality of Nigeria!
Population is nonsense.
A single authority speaks louder than noises made by population of recalcitrants.
Doctor is senate president, minister of labour and will always be minister of health. Johesu what is your stronghold? Strike and noise?
It is a pity that the noble pharmacists had to join the mediocres.
Doctors have never interefered with the activities of the pharmaceutical firms afterall we are not licensed and to be frank a doctor , myself included by training is a total novice in drug production(pharmacognosy) so it wouldn't be proper thinking of heading a pharmaceutical firm....But in the Hospital environment doctors are even superior in knowledge of drug use(pharmacology/therapeutics)pathology, radiology, and overalll patient care. Doctor automatically owns the hospital and lab therein by virtue of training.
I know pharmacists in the house will want to argue. A pharmacist will know drugs used for empirical tx but a doctor by his deep knowledge of pathology knows u shouldn't start a px on a drug yet untill u get samples for investigations as it can influence d results.
A doctor with deep knowledge of pathology(morbid,chemical n hematology) not just microbiology knows better use of drugs. A pharmacist/ other health professions may never understand why a doctor refuses to give hematinics or transfuse a child with acute febrile illness that is pale with even s/s of anemia n mild to moderate low Hb conc
Doctors can't be replaced by any other profession.
The earlier each profession recognizes its limitations the better for us all.