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Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by Nobody: 7:50pm On Oct 18, 2018
angelusbrut:
Pay the doctors 400k entry level salary,then u can talk about this.do u know doctors salary in south Africa here?

Don't mind them..Paying doctors less than 300dollars a month..A consultant hardly earns 1000$...And he's passing rubbish laws......

Why don't he first ban he and his Senate from travelling abroad for medical checkup....It's only masses that should pay the sacrifice....Thunder will fire them last last

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Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by Minjim: 7:50pm On Oct 18, 2018
speedyGonzales:
Na for experienced doctors to leave hospitals be that for inexperienced newly out of school doctors to kill as many people as possible as they learn on the job and eventually also leave

Leave hospital and go to where?
Will you employ them?
Where do you assume they got their experience?
Can every doctor own a hospital?

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Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by whatofyou: 7:51pm On Oct 18, 2018
Bethor:


Very, very good..!!
They would learn to concentrate on their work now...they either choose to work for the government or go and establish their own...simple..!!
No public doctor should be allowed to be using government resources to finance their own private entity..
Thumps up for the president if this is true..!!!

Peace..!!!

I wish all nairalanders thought like you on this!

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Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by Bolubaba(m): 7:52pm On Oct 18, 2018
drnoel:


That has never been a problem. Ask urself how none doctors still manage to open, own and run hospitals in Nigeria?

Don't worry when the time is right you will see the doctors that refuses to listen being disgraced because i'll be among those witch hunting them.
Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by bigpicture001: 7:53pm On Oct 18, 2018
that is very good...will earn the FG more revenue
Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by blesoh(f): 7:53pm On Oct 18, 2018
This is very good, throughout my pregnancy days at the teaching hospital ,the Dr assigned to me I don't know how he looks like cos he never showed up only his team were around.
Even fellow Drs were angry cos he was always at navy hospital
Even the day I was operated he never came
This is really good, if you want to own a clinic do so and leave the rest

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Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by Minjim: 7:54pm On Oct 18, 2018
Anwons:
Can someone explain what will happen to the doctors that own their hospitals and are currently working in government hospitals?

If they'll have to resign, how many of them will prefer government owned entities? The pay they receive in a month from government could be gotten in two days most time in their hospitals.

Isn't it going to be suicidal if the ones that owns hospital resign as a result of this?
Only time will tell.

You do know you can't serve two masters? And you can't also be eating ur cake and continue having it

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Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by Nobody: 7:58pm On Oct 18, 2018
Maxymilliano:
At the rate he's signing every and anything now, hope he doesn't sign his own death warrant ...

Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by teepain: 7:59pm On Oct 18, 2018
Newboss:
Wrong! angry

A private hospital is a business venture angry It's their right to set up and own any legitimate business angry

Actually you are the one that is wrong in the circumstance.

Extant civil service rules forbid government workers from owning private businesses because of the inherent problem of conflict of interest.

Doctors can own and run their private hospitals but they have to choose between private practice or public practice.

In a country where there is a high rate of unemployment, people who have the financial and technical capacity should establish their own businesses (hospitals) in this case and allow other qualified people without the financial wherewithal to take government employments.

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Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by alezzy13: 8:00pm On Oct 18, 2018
drnoel:


It won't solve anything cos the doctors will just transfer ownership of their hospitals to relatives, spouses or children. So how does that solve d problem?

As long as those relatives are not MBBS holders, it won't work.

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Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by Rstc: 8:01pm On Oct 18, 2018
The implication would mean that experienced old doctors would leave public work.
Even in the west, consultants own private specilized clinics.

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Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by teepain: 8:01pm On Oct 18, 2018
blesoh:
This is very good, throughout my pregnancy days at the teaching hospital ,the Dr assigned to me I don't know how he looks like cos he never showed up only his team were around.
Even fellow Drs were angry cos he was always at navy hospital
Even the day I was operated he never came
This is really good, if you want to own a clinic do so and leave the rest

You are spot on.
Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by davit: 8:10pm On Oct 18, 2018
Good move.
Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by tonex360: 8:14pm On Oct 18, 2018
Back to 1980's

Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by Nobody: 8:16pm On Oct 18, 2018
dumo1:
You pay doctors peanuts, you have no iota of respect for them and worse still, you spit on their faces by going abroad for medical treatment every time. This old fulani needs a real brain transplant and the cow brain he has been thinking with needs to be taken out.
What PMB did was the best.

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Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by Nobody: 8:18pm On Oct 18, 2018
revolt:
This is the only good policy buhari has enacted since 3 years he cam3 in. Thia is a good step in the right direction. Next is to bar all public officials including himself f4km going abroad for treatment .
Exactly!
Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by LadyHeaven(f): 8:25pm On Oct 18, 2018
Lol, my jnr sister went to a general hospital and needed to see a specialist, they gave her 5 months appointment NO JOKE. what do people who have no money for private health care do? Wait for 5 months?

But the president travels to UK for check up and his wife called out aso rock clinic for having no paracetamol, Funny country undecided

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Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by arabbunkum: 8:25pm On Oct 18, 2018
I'll take him serious if he stops flying to London for ordinary ear infection and equip our hospitals adequately.

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Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by speedyGonzales: 8:25pm On Oct 18, 2018
Bolubaba:

The experienced doctors ones used patients as experiment to gather the experience they brag about. Let the new doctors enjoy the same privilege.

ceejay80s:

the experienced ones once started as inexperienced ones remember?

Well, one would hope they are practicing under supervision of an already experienced person, but most of the experienced and very talented doctors, just branch out on their own, the ones we eventually get remaining in the hospitals are poor quality ones, in my experience.

Minjim:


Leave hospital and go to where?
Will you employ them?
Where do you assume they got their experience?
Can every doctor own a hospital?

Since, they are not paid well in Nigeria. I don't have to tell you that many top quality Nigerian doctors practice abroad or open their independent practice to end the big bucks to feed their families.

This is my observation, I am not saying, that banning them is bad but there will be consequences. For every action, they will be a reaction. That's why, I believe that policies must be adapted in different countries to fit their specify situations.
Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by arabbunkum: 8:26pm On Oct 18, 2018
I'll take him seriously if he stops flying to London for ordinary ear infection and equip our hospitals adequately.

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Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by Nobody: 8:27pm On Oct 18, 2018
BankeSmalls:
We're in 1984 again grin

Congrats to my sophisticated afonjas who voted this disaster into power.
Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by backnbeta(f): 8:28pm On Oct 18, 2018
Maxymilliano:
At the rate he's signing every and anything now, hope he doesn't sign his own death warrant ...
He might do that by mistake if his handlers tell him it's a bill to further subdue Nigerians grin

BTW, how much is he paying doctors to stop them from having private hospitals? He wants to 'pauperise' them abi? Ko le werk.

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Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by Nobody: 8:28pm On Oct 18, 2018
gentleguy1975:
Not bad
How will that grow the economy? I don't want to hear fighting corruption
Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by Nobody: 8:29pm On Oct 18, 2018
[quote author=Anwons post=72206358]
Can someone explain what will happen to the doctors that own their hospitals and are currently working in government hospitals?
If they don't comply they might risk their job been terminated

If they'll have to resign, how many of them will prefer government owned entities? The pay they receive in a month from government could be gotten in two days most time in their hospitals.
Many of them still prefer government hospitals if not they wouldn't be there in the first place. If they pay was lucrative I see no reason why many of them still opt in public service

Isn't it going to be suicidal if the ones that owns hospital resign as a result of this?
Only time will tell.
It will improve the health care. Many doctors will concentrate on their work instead of referring patients to their private clinics for ailment that can be treated in public hospital

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Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by Nobody: 8:30pm On Oct 18, 2018
Bethor:


Very, very good..!!
They would learn to concentrate on their work now...they either choose to work for the government or go and establish their own...simple..!!
No public doctor should be allowed to be using government resources to finance their own private entity..
Thumps up for the president if this is true..!!!

Peace..!!!
Some sense
Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by don4real18(m): 8:31pm On Oct 18, 2018
obonujoker:
Lol.....why did he ban it?? so long it does not disturb their commitment to govt hospitals (it does actually) ......
It is a good step in the right direction...
Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by omohayek: 8:33pm On Oct 18, 2018
grandstar:
This is just senseless.

These doctors own private clinics to augment their salaries.

These doctors will prefer to find high jobs overseas than to live off the peanuts the state pays to them.

He's just lost a large number of votes
Buhari is just revealing more of the same "command economy" mindset through which he's run the economy aground. In a country with a decent political order, his departure from office next year would be a certainty by now, but thanks to the terrible choice of main opponent, in the form of a confirmed thief like Atiku, Buhari may well manage to wangle 4 more years in which to continue on his path of economic destruction.

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Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by Nobody: 8:33pm On Oct 18, 2018
alezzy13:


As long as those relatives are not MBBS holders, it won't work.

U are the funniest person in this world..... So I have to have MBBS to set up and own a health facility.....U ignorance is in high places, around principalities and powers...
Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by Bolubaba(m): 8:34pm On Oct 18, 2018
speedyGonzales:




Well, one would hope they are practicing under supervision of an already experienced person, but most of the experienced and very talented doctors, just branch out on their own, the ones we eventually get remaining in the hospitals are poor quality ones, in my experience.



Since, they are not paid well in Nigeria. I don't have to tell you that many top quality Nigerian doctors practice abroad or open their independent practice to end the big bucks to feed their families.

This is my observation, I am not saying, that banning them is bad but there will be consequences. For every action, they will be a reaction. That's why, I believe that policies must be adapted to in different countries to fit their situations.
There would definately be an experienced doctor on ground who is not all about the low pay but sees saving lives as a priority. Let those that want to leave leave. You'll be amazed at the changes for the better that would happen.
Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by babeosisi: 8:36pm On Oct 18, 2018
BankeSmalls:
We're in 1984 again grin

Congrats to my sophisticated afonjas who voted this disaster into power.

The man is useless.
He doesn't even go for his own check ups in any Nigerian hospital yet he wants to tell doctors how to work.

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Re: Buhari Signs White Paper That Bars Public Doctors From Owning Private Hospitals by Funkybabee(f): 8:37pm On Oct 18, 2018
It's cool when u have issues and go to government hospital they will refer u back to their hospital what a selfish act

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