Same decision should be applied to other non-medical staff. Last I checked, this cuts across all disciplines and not restricted to medical doctors alone.

No. This is not destruction. It is the right thing

fulaniHERDSman:
Jubrin the destructive

Guess the government is already making preparations to triple their pay if such tyrannical measure is to be followed.

Me I understand o,what about those doing theirs in secrecy?

More unemployment as employees of such outfits are laid off!

The government should as well ban every civil servant from having a private business. What applies to the goose should apply to the gander.

A government that is not paying salaries, so the same government expects a medical consultant, who is at the peak of his medical career to be at the mercy of its whims and caprices, and should not find an alternative veritable means of keeping body and soul together. The government is a joke.

nairanaira12:
No. This is not destruction. It is the right thing

Naija government gets nothing right. I will just resign if i be doctor. Useless thieving criminal government. You want them to die off when they start owing them 9months salary, abi?

One of the few good moves ever made by APC.

fulaniHERDSman:

The Sudanese impostor that left no syringe nor paracetamol in Aso clinic after taking N3.2B. Ask Aisha and zarah

wicked!!

DONSMITH123:
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja

The Federal Government has started the process that will lead to stopping doctors in public service from engaging in private practice.

The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, who briefed State House Correspondents alongside his Labour and Productivity counterpart, Chris Ngige, said this was the decision of the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday.

Details later.....

http://punchng.com/breaking-fg-moves-to-ban-private-practice-by-doctors/

rubbish. most hospital workers, not only doctors,engage in private practice.

muykem:
Good move by FG. They use to create bottleneck in government hospital in other to refer patient to their private hospital.

This is the only sensible comment I've read ...NL has become something else where the forget their brains and just post rubbish anyhow.

This is good shaaa

This is one of the best policy if it can be implemented. Go to many government own hospital and see how many doctors you will see especially consultant. If there is any critical case the junior doctors or attendant will be one calling doctors to come and attend to the patient. How possible our hospital will be in a better position and how they will not be victimising government for strike. The policy should start with immediate effect.

Doctors in the house what is obtainable in other countries?

Public hospital don empty bdat

DONSMITH123:
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja

The Federal Government has started the process that will lead to stopping doctors in public service from engaging in private practice.

The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, who briefed State House Correspondents alongside his Labour and Productivity counterpart, Chris Ngige, said this was the decision of the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday.

Details later.....

http://punchng.com/breaking-fg-moves-to-ban-private-practice-by-doctors/

They have come again. I doubt have possible it is BC without exaggeration 80% of Senior Regs, Consultants and even Prof. in Academic line do that..

They won't die, I mean those working for federal government. They should choose between private and public services.

fulaniHERDSman:

Naija government gets nothing right. I will just resign if i be doctor. Useless thieving criminal government. You want them to die off when they start owing them 9months salary, abi?

Operation Crocodile dance III loading for the Doctors.

Y

raker300:
You ban doctors here then fly abroad to recieve your own treatment

Only Jubril does that...

Y

raker300:
You ban doctors here then fly abroad to recieve your own treatment

Only Jubril does that.

zenmaster:
they will deploy the army na

lol, and name it operation bacteria twerk

DONSMITH123:
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja

The Federal Government has started the process that will lead to stopping doctors in public service from engaging in private practice.

The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, who briefed State House Correspondents alongside his Labour and Productivity counterpart, Chris Ngige, said this was the decision of the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday.

Details later.....

http://punchng.com/breaking-fg-moves-to-ban-private-practice-by-doctors/

This country's health system is about to fall apart completely! Private practice is the only consolation these guys have to the horrible state and working conditions of government hospitals.

If FG goes ahead with the ban, young doctors are leaving the country ministry of health is complaining, consultants and professors will leave too. Oh! I forgot, our president does not really care, his doctors are in London and I bet there's no single Nigerian among them.

Better. They pay more attention to their private clinics to the detriment of their jobs.

DONSMITH123:
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja

The Federal Government has started the process that will lead to stopping doctors in public service from engaging in private practice.

The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, who briefed State House Correspondents alongside his Labour and Productivity counterpart, Chris Ngige, said this was the decision of the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday.

Details later.....

http://punchng.com/breaking-fg-moves-to-ban-private-practice-by-doctors/

Long overdue decisions ...Doctors are no longer effective in public hospitals and clinics,they refer patients to their private hospitals and clinics...whoever wants to go private should go and let us know those who want to remain in the public service

Expect the doctors to request for pay rise in move to frustrate the ban. But logically if they are well paid they wouldn't engage in any PP

bakynes:
Is it possible to Ban it? Many of them do it in secrecy,so it is almost impossible to detect such doctors, except the Whistle blowing act extends to defaulting doctors at well.

If they were well paid and we had enough doctors, it won't be an issue. Everything this government talks about is force force. Ban, arrest etc. Some of those practices are even in d interest of d common man. I am not against d idea. Makes sense. But are they well paid?

Minister himself has a private hospital. i believe this is not his idea. hope this can be achieved cause it will solve 50% of nigeria's health sector problems.

nairanaira12:
They won't die, I mean those working for federal government. They should choose between private and public services.

They might die, do you how terrible these government hospitals are and how these health workers generally especially resident doctors are treated? During ebola virus time, there was no single drop or flu water in the pediatrics ward of one of the largest government hospital in the country a d the doctors still had to work. Have you seen surgeons doing surgery with torches? I personally know a doctor who was owed 11months salary and she was the only doctor attending to patients in a primary health center in one of the southwestern states.

Doctors in pediatrics and neuro surgery unit doing one week call(it means they work the whole week no going home) and after one evil government will refuse to pay them.

Very funny na wa , we now hate doctors so much ....your comments reveal so!

A health minister once said it is only in nigeria that public hospital pays better salary than private hospital.
So, the problem is not salary, it is selfishness.

tiwiex:

If they were well paid and we had enough doctors, it won't be an issue. Everything this government talks about is force force. Ban, arrest etc. Some of those practices are even in d interest of d common man. I am not against d idea. Makes sense. But are they well paid?