sleemfesh:
I got a mail from the federal scholarship board inviting me for Selection Interview at Abuja.
Yes I applied. Has anyone else in the community gotten an invite too?

Ksslib: How Alpha jet go loss?

They Beta find am oo! To avoid gamma disaster.

kalishay: Doctors in this our beloved country are selfish,full of greed, all after what he/she can burst Of @ the end of the year. they never put the poor patient who can't afford they private hospital bill into consideration. Most of the big doctors how many hours to they put into government hospitals Remember the oath u took when attested as dr. You ll answer on that big day!!!!

Morotov1: That shows you that your ability has been limited by law because the " paramedics " are already performing your duties.
No wonder Nigerian doctors are retrained and reexamined when they leave the shores of these countries.
I will find it offensive if I am called what I am not and since you failed to distinguished the different and subsequently take correction on who and who are paramedics, may I use these medium to extend my desire to and not to be quoted by you concerning this discourse. Thanks.

michelz: Just imagine a scenario (as it usually happens in our health system),whereby a nurse or pharmacist who has been in a particular hospital for a long time,and then a fresh 'youth copper' doctor gets posted to that particular hospital and would want to start lording it over the nurse or the pharmacist.

Morotov1: Medics are for doctors and military corps man. Paramedics are different from allied health workers Generally, it is incorrect to refer other health workers as such. Check the meaning of paramedics please.
The last paragraph they are all for the good of the patient....is it legal no matter how noble and justified it is.....just like a nurse writing prescriptions now doctors are on strike...

Morotov1: Facilities and equipments are part of the problem but the major problem is .....we have only 270,000 doctors serving 170,000,000 people. So its time for alternatives, let's look for what works for other countries and institute here to get our health indices high again.
Clip the wings of our health professionals by
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Getting lawyers involve to sue their assess off for any gross malpractices and negligence to make them buckle up or even revoke their license.
Get the economic analyst in to establish laws of demand and supply; professionals on high demands to earn more, those working in hard to reach area to earn more....etc.
Get health administrators to manage the health facilities and the personnels working there.
@ Job description, it seems from the post of these professionals especially on nairaland , doctors proudly find it legal to encroach on others profession when the laws states otherwise.

infolekan:

That's what's obtainable. The Pharmacists head the Pharmacy dept....the Nurses the Nursing dept.
You should have known these before posting comments here. Doubt you even know what the whole fight is all about.

yomi007k:
They do so everywhere in the world.

sogodihno: In a letter dated 12th June and published on Thursday, Guardian of June 19th 2014 Medical And Dental Consultants’Association of Nigeria through their principal solicitor and counsel, Jitti Ogunnye, Esq., had written a letter to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, and had raised a lot of issues . She wrote “ we wish to draw the attention of Your Excellency to the “agreement” said to have been reached at ameeting that was held in Abuja, FCT between the Joint HealthSector Unions(JOHESU) and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations(AHPA), with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF),Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, GCON, Honourable Minister of Labour and Productivity, Honourable Minister of Health, Chairman, Salaries, Income and Wages Commission, Head of the Service of the Federation, and other Top Government Functionaries on the 5th of June 2014.Three of these agreements are of concern to our clients since they have grave implications for the management and survival of the Health Sector in Nigeria”.In the said letter MDCAN raised issues she wants the Government to address, for she has put the Government on notice that she will fully comply with and enhance any directive(including embarking on strike action or withdrawal of services) that the NMA may wish to issue at the expiration of the ultimatum. That MDCAN is constrained to tow this line,in spite of her usual traditional moderation whenever there are strikes in the hospital. The consequence is that no medical and dental consultant shall be available to render service in all our Teaching Hospitals, nationwide, in the eventof such a strike action.MDCANS’ GROUSE(1) MDCAN is opposed to the appointment of other Medical Personnel as Consultant.MDCAN is opposed to the circular no MH/PM/138/VOL.111/79 of 16th may, 2014 that restored consultancy status to other Healthcare Professionals and approving the payment ofspecialist allowance to other Healthcare Professionals.(2) MDCAN is against Government position to have accepted JOHESU/AHPA’s position and demand that the illegal office of the DCMAC be abolished.(3) MDCAN is opposed to Government’s agreement with JOHESU to refer a number of issues to Yayale Ahmed committee. These issues include the review of the process ofappointment of Chief Medical Directors and Medical Directors of Teaching Hospitals and the agitation of JOHESU/AHPA that appointment of Chief Medical Directors and Medical Directors be made from permanent staff of Teaching Hospitals rather than from the Universities. And theGovernment will to look into the lopsidedness of advertorial for appointment of CMDs/MDs which is skewed in favour of Medical and Dental Practitioners and the agitation of JOHESU/AHPA that the appointment process be made open to all “competent and qualified health professionals”; the AbdullahiBello Presidential committee report on harmony in the HealthSector; and the interpretation on who is “medically qualified”As a result of the issues stated above MDCAN has called on the Government to rescind her decision. And if the Government does not, MDCAN will join NMA in the forth coming industrial action in which NMA has given the Government a 14 days ultimatum. At this juncture one is poised to ask are the reasons given by MDCAN to justify her claims and to down tools cogent? Let us go through her reasons.(a) Appointment of other Healthcare Professionals as Consultants.According to MDCAN appointing a Pharmacist, Physiotherapist, Nurse, Medical Laboratory Scientist, etc as consultants in their chosen field are an aberration and an oddity. MDCAN had written “designating or appointing Nurses, Pharmacist or Physiotherapist or Laboratory Technicians ‘Consultants’ in the Health Sector is, therefore, an aberration, and a pervasion of order of care in the Health Sector. Under this order of care, there is no rule that can accommodate this designation or appointment of non-medical doctors as Consultants, even if some managers of Public Hospitals in Nigeria want to invent the absurdity. In the medical profession, Nurse, Pharmacists, Physiotherapists are not trained to make diagnosis and prescribe treatment’. MDCAN went further to write ‘Your Excellency, the oddity and aberration of this agreement by theFederal Government of Nigeria and JOHESU and AHPA on extension of Consultancy Statuses to all Health Professionals is not only that it is professionally and administratively perverse. It is also a legal absurdity.”(b) The Government of Nigeria was in error to obey Court Judgment/concede to JOHESU to have restored Consultant Status to other Health Professionals without consulting MDCAN. MDCAN wrote through their lawyer “Your Excellency, our client vehemently disagree with the reported agreements. As our client has consistently maintained, they are an Association of Medical and Dental Consultants, who, exclusive of other Professionals in the Health Sector, are known and addressed as “Consultants”. Negotiating and agreeing with non- medical and dental practitioners in the health sector, and designating them “Consultants”, such that there will now be multiplicity of Consultants in the Teaching Hospitals, is not acceptable; and even if it were, this cannot be done in the absence of Association of Medical Practitioners.(NMA, MDCAN, etcetera)(c ) MDCAN is of the opinion that the NIC Judgement in favour of JOHESU was in error.She wrote “following the determination of suit no. NICN/ABJ/238/2012 (the Trade Union members of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU),namely1) Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria;(2)National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwifes;(3)Senior Staff Association of Universities Teaching Hospital, Research Institutes and Associated Institutions;(4)Nigerian Union of Pharmacists, Medical Technologists and Professions Allied to Medicine;(5)Non Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions vs Federal Ministry of Health) on Monday, the 22nd day of July,2013 by Hon B.A Adejumo (Presiding Judge),Hon. Justice B.B Kanyip and Justice M.N. Esowe, wherein the National Industrial Court held that a few non-medical and dental practitioners aberrantly appointed asConsultants in University College Hospital, Ibadan should continue to enjoy that status, the Federal Ministry of Health (that is the Federal Government of Nigeria) appealed that decision, and our client, MDCAN also approached the National Industrial Court with an application to set aside the judgment. The appeal and application are pending in courts.(D) That the action of the Government to obey Court Judgment amounts to contempt.MDCAN through their lawyer wrote “the so called agreement on the extension of consultancy status to all Health Professional and thus purported issuance of a circular to thateffect is contemptuous of the courts. It undermines and subverts the majesty, dignity, and integrity of the courts; it is illegal and it is an affront on the rule of law.”(E) MDCAN rejects the abolishment of the office of DCMACMDCAN wrote through her lawyer “Your Excellency, our clientalso rejects the agreement to abolish the post of Deputy Chairman Medical Advisory Committee (DCMAC).Our client’s position is that the creation of the post, which has been in our Teaching Hospitals for more than twenty years, is within the administrative powers and competence of the Governing Boards of the Teaching Hospitals as defined in their respective Governing statutes establishing them. This position, which facilitates smooth management of the Teaching Hospitals, cannot be scrapped because of the whims and caprices of non-medical doctors, on the flimsy ground that they are excluded from consideration in filling of that position. For the avoidance of any doubt, it is instructive that the University Teaching Hospitals (Reconstruction of Boards, etc) Act, CAPU15, VOL 15, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 ,provides in section 7(4) (Function of the Board)that “Subject to the this Act, the Board shall have powers to do anything ,which, in its opinion, is calculated to facilitates the carrying out of its functions under this act “.(F) MDCAN is opp

naeto2: Its all turning out to be a catfight between two supposedly mature organisations

agabaI23: I'm sure he is a medical student. Sorry if you are not but you sound very much like one.

sledok: Medical Doctors in Nigeria don't reason like normal human being. If everybody study medicine, who will handle other professions. Instead of them to concentrate on improving the health sector, they are busy looking for ways to boost their stupid "Ego". Doctors should leave pride and face their profession with utmost seriousness. Other health workers are very relevant though l'm not one of them. They should also be allowed to answer doctors because they have atleast one medical role to play in the health of patients. The Government should handle the stupid "NMA" before they scatter the entire health sector. KC the Economist.

::Andrew:::
Hahahaha that's the way to Uranus

Akbee: Hmmmmmm;dat reminds me of those deeply dug "open air"loo i used weneva i was on vacation with my grannies.i lost sum of my favourite dolls and a N5 coin to it.
Those newly discovered blackholes r surely"highway to the grave".I pray no ship shall end up in one of it..no rescue mission

pri3stess: E dey pain you?