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Very true. Warmed in the microwave rice with vegetable soup that had mackerel and stock fish. A delight to the mouth and belly but not to the nose of oyinbo. My colleague said my meal stinks. ![]() |
doggedfighter:I saw this coming over a decade ago. Used to work in a hospital and observed that most foreign doctors were the ones doing the anti-social and odd hour shifts, while the indigenous ones were doing the easy day shift. It is a tough one to call because at least they are on better pay and get paid when due, unlike in Nigeria where the working conditions may be similar without pay for months. Who are we to blame? I Nigerian govt? Doctors? System failure? Culture? Let me apportion the blame Nigerian govt? 50% Doctors? 10% System failure? 25% Culture? 15% I will say, all of the above. |
We took our findings to the BMA - and its deputy chair, Emma Runswick. She told us the situation was a "disgrace to UK medicine". "Our international colleagues have come a long way to the UK, and have found conditions so exploitative it beggars belief." NES Healthcare told us that our "feedback about doctors' experiences" with the company was "extremely positive". It says it provides doctors "with a safe and supportive route to pursue their career choice in the National Health Service, and in the UK healthcare system more generally, and that their work is of "great benefit to the British public."
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Some NES doctors have received help from Dr Jenny Vaughan from the Doctors' Association. She receives many complaints from Resident Medical Officers and says the UK healthcare system has developed into two tiers - one for NHS doctors, the other for international recruits working in the private sector. NHS doctors can only be scheduled to work up to 48 hours, and if they request, up to 72 hours a week. "No doctor in the NHS does more than four nights consecutively because we know that it's frankly not safe," says Dr Vaughan. "This is a slave-type work with… excess hours, the like of which we thought had been gone 30 years ago. "It is not acceptable for patients for patient-safety reasons. It is not acceptable for doctors. "
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Dr Femi Johnson was sent to a different hospital to Augustine, but says he was also expected to work 14 to 16-hour days and then be on call overnight. "I was burnt out," he says. "I was tired, I needed sleep. It's not humanly possible to do that every day for seven days." But when he needed a break because he was too exhausted to continue, NES were entitled to deduct money from his salary. The company says that is to cover the cost of finding a replacement doctor, but Femi says it leaves NES doctors in a terrible dilemma. "In situations like that, I always make that internal discussion with my inner self - 'Femi are you doing right by yourself and are you doing right by the patient?'" he tells us. "Unfortunately, I haven't always been able to answer that question."
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The GMC also offers the exams in several other red-list countries - Ghana, Sudan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Both the GMC and British Council deny they are involved in "active recruitment" and say they're simply helping provide a service for doctors wanting to come to the UK independently - something that is allowed under the guidelines. In Augustine's case, he was studying for the second part of those PLAB exams in the UK, when he was approached by NES Healthcare and later offered visa sponsorship and a potential job. While that does appear to have been "active recruitment" - NES says it wasn't, because it is not a recruitment agency and, as such, only engages with doctors from overseas once they've already committed to practising in the UK. But the Department of Health and Social Care told us the UK code of practice did apply to NES - so the company was in breach of it. We spoke to several African doctors recruited in this way by NES. They all had similar stories about what the terms and conditions of their contracts meant in reality, once they had been hired out to private UK hospitals.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63141929 y Paul Kenyon & Anna Meisel File on 4 & Newsnight Doctors recruited from some of the world's poorest countries to work in UK hospitals say they're being exploited - and believe they're so overworked they fear putting patients' health at risk. A BBC investigation has found evidence that doctors from Nigeria are being recruited by a British healthcare company and expected to work in private hospitals under conditions not allowed in the National Health Service. The British Medical Association (BMA) has described the situation as "shocking" and says the sector needs to be brought in line with NHS working practices. The BBC has spoken to several foreign medics - including a young Nigerian doctor who worked at the private Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital in 2021. Augustine Enekwechi says his hours were extreme - on-call 24 hours a day for a week at a time - and that he was unable to leave the hospital grounds. He says working there felt like being in "a prison". The tiredness was so intense, he says, there were times he worried he couldn't properly function. "I knew that working tired puts the patients at risk and puts myself also at risk, as well for litigation," he says. "I felt powerless… helpless, you know, constant stress and thinking something could go wrong." Nuffield Health disputes those working hours, saying its doctors are offered regular breaks, time off between shifts, and the ability to swap shifts if needed. The company adds that "the health and wellbeing of patients and hospital team members" is its priority. Augustine was hired out to the Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital from a private company - NES Healthcare. It specialises in employing doctors from overseas, many from Nigeria, and using them as Resident Medical Officers, or RMOs - live-in doctors found mainly in the private sector. Augustine says he was so excited to be offered a job that he barely looked at the NES contract. In fact it opted him out of legislation that protects UK workers from excessive working hours - the Working Time Directive - and left him vulnerable to a range of punishing salary deductions. line Listen to File on 4 - Paul Kenyon investigates the 'brain drain' of doctors from developing countries to work in the UK line Augustine is far from alone. The BMA and the front line lobbying group the Doctors' Association has given the BBC's File on 4 and Newsnight exclusive access to the findings of a questionnaire put to 188 Resident Medical Officers. Most of the doctors were employed by NES but some were with other employers. It found that 92% had been recruited from Africa and most - 81% - were from Nigeria. The majority complained about excessive working hours and unfair salary deductions. For years now, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against the "active recruitment" of doctors and nurses from developing countries with severe shortages of medical personnel. The WHO has compiled a list of 47 such countries - most of them in Africa. The UK government has incorporated that list into its own code of practice - calling it the "red list". In effect, it makes Nigeria a no-go destination for British medical recruiters. So how did the doctors come to be working in the UK in the first place? We travelled to Nigeria and witnessed another troubling side to this story. In an exam hall in Lagos, the country's biggest city, we found hundreds of doctors queuing to take what's called a Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board test - or PLAB 1. The paper is set by the General Medical Council in London and is the first step required by the British medical authorities to secure a licence to work in the UK. The doctors we spoke to said they were attracted by the potential of higher salaries and better working conditions. The event was being overseen by staff from the British Council - an organisation sponsored by the Foreign Office.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-africa-62845571?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=6344e6be59bb920430c26f94%26Doctors%20from%20Nigeria%20%27facing%20exploitation%27%20in%20UK%262022-10-11T04%3A32%3A25%2B00%3A00&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:5b233eba-8124-4f21-864e-ef6c3562954a&pinned_post_asset_id=6344e6be59bb920430c26f94&pinned_post_type=share Doctors recruited from some of the poorest countries in the world to work in hospitals in the UK say they are facing exploitation and are so overworked they worry about putting patients’ health at risk. A BBC investigation has found evidence that doctors from Nigeria are being targeted by a British healthcare company called NES Healthcare. It found they are expected to work in private hospitals under conditions that are not allowed in the National Health Service - the UK's publicly funded healthcare system. NES Healthcare disputes the BBC findings and insists it provides a safe and supportive career route. The company says feedback about doctors' experiences with them is extremely positive. But the British Medical Association has called some of the working conditions a disgrace to UK medicine.
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yom2:Yes. They also have their tribal differences here too. But it is mostly, in a humorous way nowadays. Unlike the Africans |
Probz:Sound. ![]() |
Even in the UK where football originated, millions do not watch football but are into rugby. Especially those in the north. |
JaskanFactor:A blueprint for living among the oyinbo. Nice one man |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/boxing/62562489?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=630168e9405bb048e3182a24%26Usyk%20wins%20on%20split%20decision%262022-08-20T23%3A06%3A18.363Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:97d5a4f9-bd51-4a20-aa5a-57ad22ad2b55&pinned_post_asset_id=630168e9405bb048e3182a24&pinned_post_type=share AJ not disgraced but his stock has just gone down. |
OboOlora:Have you factored living cost into this £800. Rent per month will swallow up that money like dog eats bone. ![]() |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-africa-62438202?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=62fe119f4929d817e9777942%26Emirates%20to%20suspend%20flights%20to%20Nigeria%262022-08-18T10%3A19%3A52.345Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:68a8a984-9fbf-4938-b0f1-12c44b0ec5b1&pinned_post_asset_id=62fe119f4929d817e9777942&pinned_post_type=share The Dubai-based Emirates airline has said it will suspend flights to Nigeria from the start of September as it has been unable to repatriate its money from Nigeria. The problem has arisen because Nigeria has restricted access to foreign exchange, the Reuters news agency reports. The government has not yet commented. In a statement, Emirates said it had “made considerable efforts to initiate dialogue with the relevant authorities for their urgent intervention to help find a viable solution. “[It is] regrettable there has been no progress.” Flights will stop from 1 September “to limit further losses and impact on our operation cost”. In June, the International Air Transport Association said that Nigeria was not handing over $450m (£370m) owed to various airlines, Reuters says. Emirates said it could reconsider its decision “should there be any positive developments in the coming days”. Affected travellers can get refunds for their tickets, it added.
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The girl no dey shame. Top runs girl |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=62e0bc55c0a04b705829a13f%26Mozambican%20caught%20%27planning%20albino%20children%20sale%27%262022-07-27T05%3A47%3A35.632Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:201c792d-19e6-4913-be39-fb31c8ca1d7e&pinned_post_asset_id=62e0bc55c0a04b705829a13f&pinned_post_type=share A father who wanted to sell his three albino children was arrested in Mozambique while negotiating over the price, police have said. The man and his brother were arrested in the western Tete province. Albino people have been killed in the country for their body parts, which are for ritual purposes. Police spokesman Luciano da Câmara said two supposed buyers are also under police custody. He said the three children, aged 10, 13 and 16, were taken from their home and held in captivity while negotiations over their price were ongoing. "The sale was to be made for over $39,100 (£32,400),” the police spokesman said. “We took steps and located the two individuals in Angónia who confirmed plans for the deal," he added. |
If this guy was white or European, he will cost double this amount £35million for a player of his calibre is cheap !!!! |
AlphaTaikun: ![]() That is why I basket mouth am now ![]() |
A former bank employee has been jailed for taking almost £900,000 out of accounts, police have revealed.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-61431112
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Whythe was crap |
So much talent and potential with nothing to show for it. Superglued eagles ![]() |
Is it not sad when any good development occurs in Nigeria, Some take/see it as an opportunity to do evil. The heart of mankind is full of evil intentions. |
Those days has far gone when parents will ask their children where they found money to buy a new shirt or shoe. Now, a guy of 25 yrs old will buy a Merc , without no feasible means of income, and questions are not asked. Now society is asking why these young cats are getting into all sorts of shit dealings and activities. Answer? Because they know that no one will question them and they can get away with it. Surprised? Not at all ![]() |
It was very common in the 50s up to the early 70s. where many Nigerian men who came to study in the UK,had relationships with white girls from low income families back then and got them pregnant. People like Daley thompson, the Fashanus, Kris Akabusi are products of those periods |
It's not even about reward but about having a clear conscience that you have done the right thing, |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59826345 Tens of thousands of people awoke on Christmas morning to a surprise from an unexpected benefactor - Santander. The bank mistakenly deposited £130m into 75,000 accounts on 25 December. Santander's staff are now rushing to claw back the money, although the job is being made more difficult because much of it was deposited in accounts at rival banks, according to The Times. The error occurred when payments from 2,000 business accounts were made twice. "We're sorry that due to a technical issue, some payments from our corporate clients were incorrectly duplicated on the recipients' accounts," the bank said in a statement. "None of our clients were at any point left out of pocket as a result and we will be working hard with many banks across the UK to recover the duplicated transactions over the coming days." It said the mistake may have meant that some people were, in effect, paid twice from their employer's account, although the second payment was funded by Santander. Ruined Christmas One payroll manager, who asked not to be named, told the BBC the blunder had cast a shadow over Christmas and Boxing Day. "It ruined my holiday period because I thought I'd paid out hundreds of thousands in error - I thought I had done something wrong," they told the BBC. "I thought it was just me and that I was going to get in trouble at work." They said that Santander had not given any information about how firms should explain the second payment to staff or about how it should be repaid. "It's just a complete shambles," the payroll manager said. "How they are going to recover it, I just don't know." The bank stressed that it had already begun speaking to the rival banks - which The Times said included Barclays, HSBC, NatWest, Co-operative Bank and Virgin Money. Santander said those banks would "look to recover the money from their customers' accounts." However, it was not clear how the banks would respond if their customers had already spent the money, meaning returning it would push them into overdraft. Santander indicated that it may contact people directly to get the money back. |
The only thing that does not face discrimination in Naija is meat. ![]() |
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