0key:

I wanted to ignore ur post but I realised that u need serious help. The paucity of knowledge u exhibited in ur post is nothing to write home about. Try to broaden ur mind to avoid shame that comes with myopic,bitter and rigid mind.

I want u to know that there's nothing special about carrying out simple lab tests which can b done by Autoanalyser. In resourse-poor areas where there's shortage of health workers, auxiliary nurses are thought to perform those tests with no hassles and they performe the job as efficient as d lab scientists/ technicians.

To make it simple, what tests do u do that make u people to b clamouring for equal pay with doctors? PCV, blood grp, m/c/s, urinalysis, fbc, widal,FBS,RVS, get blood donor, and to an extent hormonal assay,RFT,LFT,TFT. All d mentioned tests are all done by machines. Ur duty is to COLLECT samples and put them in the machines to analyse them. There's nothing like chemical titrations u do to get results except blood grouping n xmatching, widal tests and few others. Advanced tests are done by consultant pathologist (e.g bone marrow aspirations, lumbar puncture, amniocentesis, chorionic villi sampling, histology and many more). U are not allowed to carry out these tests done by doctors. So why are u bragging? Respect others so that u will b respected.

You just displayed your gross idiocy and imbecility. Who the hell employed you as a so-called ducktor or surgical technician? Is bone marrow aspiration a Test? Or vili sampling? Or lumbar puncture? After the puncture, and csf is collected; who analyses the csf? Medical Lab Scientists. To mention but a few.
In the world over, so called pathologists are not licensed to carry out Medical Laboratory Investigations; they just have basic knowledge of Med Lab. Their business is to study disease precesses of their patients, with the major aid of Med Lab reports released by the Med Lab Scientists so as to be able to treat their patients. Okey and all other ducktors/docs, plus the lay public, be informed. And let me quickly add that Med Lab Scientists are professional graduates of Medical Lab Science from Universities awarded with BMLS (Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science).they are assisted in the Lab by med lab technicians and med lab assistants who are trained in polythecnics and schools of health/technology.
The bitter pill Nigerian duck tors must swallow is that MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE & MEDICAL LAB SCIENTISTS have come to stay. The fact that the National House of Assembly recently empowered MLSCN, the MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE COUNCIL OF NIGERIA to Accredit & Inspect ALL private and government (public) Medical Laboratories in Nigeria is enough pointer that the profession of Medical Lab Scientists is advancing. See www.mlscn.gov.ng and or www.amlsn.org
Autoanalyzers are no alternatives or threats to Med Lab Scientists. Thesame Med Lab Scientists calibrate these autoanalyzers; run quality control on the said autoanalyzers and their reagents, and most times troubleshoot these analyzers because as a Med Lab Scientist, in 4th Year in University you are taught a course called "BioMedical Instrumentation".
Finally, YES! YES!! YES!! A Medical Lab Scientist can comfortably and more efficiently manage a hospital; for clarity - be the CMD; if the issue is redressed. Be informed also that the Medical Lab Scientist in his 5th year in University took a course on "Hospital Management" apart from "Laboratory Management" taught in 2nd year. Bottom line; for equity and fair play for all health professions and allied professions represented in the hospital, LET PROFESSIONAL HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS manage the hospitals in Nigeria as obtainable the world over and some sane health facilities in the country. This would curb the corrupt and nepotic trend of some health workers favoring only their professional colleagues in the team to head administrative offices in the hospital.
Okey,Princenonny, Osahon7 etc and others your colleagues with your shabby mentality not here, let me resound it that Medical Lab Science would continue to be an excrutiating pain in your arsses for as long as you continue to think you can provide comprehensive health services without members of JOHESU. www.amlsn.org

0key:

What do u consider as minor surgeries? I want to get u clearly.

LoL. Dr Young educate his ignorance and that of his folk: Osahon7, Princenonny and co. Silly.

Laalamed:

and when nma or mdcn is agitating for better pay,professional standards,professional autonomy JOHESU must not interfere.ok.

Professional autonomy my foot. Dead on arrival. Grow up

Dnaz:

so e dey pain u DAT u r being compared to a lab technician. besides what does d so called scientist do DAT d technician can't?

Google 'Medical Lab Scientist and Medical Lab Technician'. Don't be lazy.

phantom: you know nobody will really crucify you IF you dont have an opinion.

Re-read my post. But slowly this time, you'll discover I told Joanna Sedley 'thank you' and added that you're unbelievable.

biomedixexcel: Medical Workers Strike Suspension: If I Were
NMA By Fejiro Oliver
Posted by Editor
A choir is made up of many voices, including
yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then
all that will be left are the soloists. Don’t let a
loud few determine the nature of the sound. It
makes for poor harmony and diminishes the
song.” – Vera Nazarian
Generations change their style of life; they dictate
how their future and that of their unborn should be.
They do so not at the peril of others, but for the
entire benefit of mankind. Their struggle begins from
the womb and come to fruition when they decide to
take their destinies in their hands. Still yet, they are
sympathetic to the cause of their current generation
even as they fight for a tomorrow they may never
see. But nothing is more paradisic (my own word for
living in paradise) than see their struggles,
agitations and tussle for survival come to fruition
while the breath of life still run in them.
The above aptly capture the delicate health system
and their medical workers who despite their
agitations remembered their Hippocratic Oath and
graciously, but with a clause suspended the strike.
At exactly 12.15am Wednesday, a top official of the
union sent me a text that the strike has just been
suspended. Before then, a government top official
has hinted me that they are meeting and the
minister who is currently under fire is ready to climb
down from his high horse and accede to JOHESU
requests. In the meeting which had the minister of
health were also present; the Head of civil service of
the federation and National President of TUC was an
agreement reached that the strike will be suspended
for four weeks, with an implementation committee
headed by the Head of civil service to implement the
ruling of the National Industrial court and the
minister not to go on appeal.
The true mark of repentance is humility, which Mr.
Onyebuchi Chukwu (who is likely to see me as an
antagonist, but I see him as a friend in progress)
may have shown by finally seeing reasons for the
just action of JOHESU. I do not believe he’s unjustly
insensitive, but the NMA constituency which he
belongs seems to affect his reasoning. He has
decided to right the wrongs of Late Ransome Kuti
and we bid posterity to begin his judgment from
there. Now that the strike has been called off; what
would I have done if I were the NMA national
president?
The strike once again has proved that the doctors of
medicine(MD) cannot work as health practitioners
without the other doctors and medical practitioners’,
thus proving that all services rendered by these
medical personnel are indispensible. Were I the
NMA chairman, I would humbly call my partners in
JOHESU and NUPTAM; apologize for any
inflammatory statements that might have angered
their members to pour out their venomous wrath on
Nigerians, which led to increased number of death
since their services were withdrawn. I will borrow a
leaf from the NMA Gombe State chairman, Dr Jauro
Degri statement, acknowledging their inability to
take the place of the other medical officers, thus,
“we want to inform the public that whatever service
we cannot render as a result of the strike, we can
always advise and direct them to where they can be
attended to”. It doesn’t cost a dime to be modest and
plead that the ultimate end for all medical workers is
what Dr Jauro said, “We are all trained to save lives
and these lives, we must save, because we know
that one day, we must account for this work that we
are doing,”. This is what the NMA should do
preaching unity and collaboration among
themselves.
Were I the NMA, I will team up with NUPTAM to
form a union that will take the government on the
decayed health facilities in the country, failed health
issues as their ASUU counterpart are demanding for
improvement in the education industry. Imagine a
union such as this going on strike! You can bet on it
that their industrial action will not last for more than
48 hours before the government of the day consent
to their reasonable request(s). They will get the
optimum support of all Nigerians, as their being
indispensible will be proved beyond reasonable
doubt. I will reflect on the NMA strike in Lagos State
where Governor Babatunde Fashola relegated them
to an inconsequential association, despite the weeks
it lingered, with works going on fully in Lagos
hospitals. A union such has this would have made
Fashola literary creeping and begging for it to be
called off. If I were NMA; I would advocate for this
common union in the spirit of brotherhood and
comradeship.
Had I been the NMA, I will truly seek the advice of
the Medical Laboratory scientist who is more
grounded in their field and thus better, than a
pathologist. I will see their services as indispensible,
taking a big lesson from the MD in UBTH who tried
to do the work of the striking Medical scientist and
ended up spilling 18 PCV out of 24 PCV, a clear case
of inability.
How about the case of the Doctors of physiotherapy
(DPT)? The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria
(MDCN) will join the Medical Rehabilitation Therapy
Board (MRTB) to ask the government to provide
enough equipment to the various hospitals, to enable
the few graduates they produce do their internship
in any hospital in the country. Next, we will write to
Nigerian Universities Commission to increase the
number of universities studying this course (they are
less than 15), while we do all it takes to meet the
requirements to setting up such department. A new
branch of medicine it is but indispensible. Nigerian
former military president, Babangida can testify to
it, when he went for a broken leg treatment abroad,
as well as former vice president, Atiku Abubakar
who have been treated by name. Do we need to
mention the governor of Taraba State who needs it
to come back to his memory, working alongside a
neuro specialist?
To the nurses, who are the de facto head of the
wards, will I pledge my union support, to respect
and not claim to be their boss when actually we are
not, either by practice or training, except by age or
grade level. We at the NMA executive will set up a
committee to look into the unwritten fracas
happening between the doctors of medicine and
nursing graduates; then proffer a solution once and
for all, knowing that the common stake we share is
to make a patient get well. We will go the length of
meeting the radiography board to iron out our
differences while reaching a synergy that not only
will they exercise their authority as the modern eyes
of in-depth medical practice in their private
hospitals, but also government hospitals.
We understand that we don’t know anything about
diet, and thus should not feign to be dieticians. As
the NMA, we accept that we are only a group of
specialist in a particular field, who even in our
personal lives seek the advice of the dieticians and
follow strictly the diet they laid down for us. This
dietary department, if true confession is made is a no
go area, and thus we won’t and should not deceive
patients that it’s within our jurisdiction to give right
solution. Succinctly put; we are only an allied
profession to it just as we are to others and they are
to us.
To undermine the Pharmacists who are called
Doctor of Pharmacy abroad, if I were a NMA
president is to commit career suicide, since my
patients cure begin from their doorsteps. They
manufacture the drugs which we prescribe to
whoever seeks our advice. Beside, these are group
of people who can work alone and in places outside
the hospital/clinic settings without needing my
services or educational input. I will seek to mend
fence with them if there were any.
Why should we in the medical sector struggle for
leadership when that is actually not the problem
with our hospitals. In the beginning, it was not so;
thus I will let my NMA constituency know that there
are no superior in this field of medicine, but equals
working toward the same purpose, to achieve a
common goal- improved and better health care for
us with good monetary value accrued to our
services. The debate for harmony is a welcome
development, so will I see it, after all, we truly
harmonize in the discharge of our duties to the
patients. The mistake/failure on the part of a medical
lab scientist or radiographer renders useless all the
treatment of a doctor of medicine or doctor of
physiotherapy. The careless action of a nurse will
see a patient to the grave and the list goes on. I will
gladly follow the words of Tony Hillarman,
“Everything is connected. The wing of the corn
beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the
sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of
man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and
in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of
walking in harmony, with beauty all around him”.
This is the harmony that we truly need which should
reflect in the leadership. We agree that anyone can
head, but better if a hospital administrator is made
the head while we all focus on our clinical duties,
and the commissioner or minister of health being
from any competent medical practitioner.
Oh if I were! I will not see Fejiro Oliver as a witch
hunting journalist, who was paid to demystify the
medical profession, but a reporter who was simply
doing his job to see that the health sector is truly
reformed and a better working relationship among
all the practitioners. Yes, I will look at all he has said
critically, analyzed it and with modesty kick off to
work.
I really wish were!
Nothing gladdens a reporter’s heart than seeing his
genuine cry heard in the interest of the nation. We at
secretsreporters saw a medical strike genocide
coming had the state and local government hospitals
joined today, that the strike was eventually
suspended. We saw our grandparents in the village
raining curses on the government for denying them
access to these medical workers, most especially the
ladies who love to visit a hospital and love being
attended to by the ladies in white. While they label
our report as being too frank; we just could not be
too mild with the lives of Nigerians. What they fail to
understand is that should NMA go on a just strike
tomorrow, we will still be here to ring the bells in
support of them. Oh yes, we will!
We‘ve not backed out of the call to relieve the
minister of health of his ministerial position, but it’s
never late for him to make amend, go back to the
drawing table and retrace his steps. The strike has
only been suspended, not called off; hence let the
agreement and consensus to these deserving
requests be granted. This is no call of support for
JOHESU but for the general good of the citizenry
who will die next after the expiration of four weeks
with the agreement not honored. Even the lands
have rejected their corpse; Mr. President, do not
force them on the land.
For now, JOHESU/NUPTAM and the patients in the
hospitals that will now see their doctors, Nurses,
Medical lab scientist, Imaging Scientist, Dieticians
etc back to work treat them, can now pop
champagne.
These little things matter…

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Joanna Sedley, thank you.
1.Osahon7
2.Princenonny
3.Phantom
4.Okey
&
5.Cosmatika, you're all unbelievable.

It is embarassing to say that it is not a new thing in this country that soldiers beat up policemen or vice versa. But this is sheer wickedness working in the children of disobedience in these last days. Woe betides our fatherland if these complications are not checked urgently.

i agree in to-to with PORT HARCOURT.

who can bear witness to the first and now, second said revelations brought to earth by "sis Linda from Sierra Leone"? the truth remains that i have long stopped believing or falling for most of the accounts related to the the body of Christ by person(s) who have been involved in NDE's - Near Death Experiences or "Lazarus Phenomenon". I'd rather stick to the Holy Spirit inspired revelations about Heaven, Hell, God's Judgement and escatologies as documented by John the Beloved in the Bible Book of Revelation.
Let's stop this end-time Revelation Syndrome of attacking men of God, churches and ministries.

this is a cowardly act by the lagos state government.

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on a good day:


my problem with doctors is that they very greedy and insensitive...now they want pple to suporport them for better training,despite the ones they have already, buh when other professions like nurses,****lab ppl***** and the pharmacists ask for better integration and training,drs. will also go on strike, you hypocrit how can be refering to what u do for ppl,do u think we dnt know that more training for u pple means more money(ur main obctv),please u pple should go and rest,i totally support the other guy's opinion,....you doctors are not the problem we have abeg

*PLS for clarification and information, those professionals are MEDICAL LAB SCIENTISTS / LAB SCIENTISTS; NOT *[b]****lab ppl*****. See www.amlsn.org & www.mlscn.gov.ng

"Age is numbers", they say. It is no longer news when older ladies marry younger men. I wish to ask if a lady older than her man by two (2) months, falls into this group of "older ladies"?

9AEF22. I believe in networking

@ OP: you said, God said "NO". So what counsel do you care about again? "Let God be true, and all men liars.." However, I believe in God guiding one to choose a spouse but not choosing for anybody. Because He (God) has given us the will to choose or "find a wife.." under his guidance. More grace.

And I've been thinking "WHO TOOK THE SNAP SHOT?". Where did he stand? In another cage-truck? Or where?

Imagine these verbose manifesto on a Sunday Morning Church Service! Not for me, anyway, cos I prefer God's word to fables. Wonders shall never end. So these were the 'sermons' PTB (Pastor Tunde Bakari) listened to that made him consecrated and ordained as a FULLTIME Pastor?
Lawyer to Pastor plus Political Activist and now, Politician - to the extent of "unequally yoking" with Rtd Gen M. Buhari to fulfil his lusts of being in power, contrary to the supposed call of God upon his life to maximally commit his lifetime to God's Business of Soul winning.
What's next? Who knows should please tell NLanders cos I refuse to be confused by ushers of Political Crisis & Violence like his mate, Buhari using sacred platforms meant to edify God-thirsty Christian souls to propagate his selfish agenda.
#so after reading the speech, his congregants shared "the Grace.." and went home?
(Albeit, it's a good Message; delivered by the wrong Messenger via the wrong Media. God bless Nigeria.)
Critics you're ALL welcome.

@Fhemmy:how much would you deliver me a '96 toyota camry in PH? i'm ok with your mode of operation from your reply to Simplesoul05. But work wouldn't let me make it to Lagos from PH for inspection, hence can the machine be delivered to my base?

Oh wow!! As a kid, I had always wondered who arranged such complex and difficult multiplication tables behind that book!!! It made me scared of the back of the book...

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Goto hell boko haram or wateva u call urself...u idiots. Hw dare u threaten my president? Yes ur threats aren't to b tÀken for granted, bt u just showed d zenith of ur illiteracy and idiocy.. Bunch of fools.. I hate u.. Nigeria hates u.. You and ur Northern elite sponsors are nt vry far frm ur graves cos u hve done enough to go six feet! and are cosponsors of these devils unleashed to destroy our nacent democracy jst because an hausa criminal isn't in power! I wonder y d law (if any) hasn't yet caught up with those heartless cabals... gays! Bigots! U hve all failed cos Christians are praying!!! Long Live Christianity! Long Live Mr President! Long Live Nigeria!

Hotstepper Good posts