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From: Tajudeen traji@aol.com [NaijaObserver] <NaijaObserver@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 9:01 PM
Subject: ||NaijaObserver|| Re: Stupid is What Stupid Does: Nigerian Govt Orders Sack of Striking Doctors
To: Kayode Adebayo <kayusee1@yahoo.com>
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From: Tajudeen traji@aol.com [NaijaObserver] <NaijaObserver@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 9:01 PM
Subject: ||NaijaObserver|| Re: Stupid is What Stupid Does: Nigerian Govt Orders Sack of Striking Doctors
To: Kayode Adebayo <kayusee1@yahoo.com>
I thought their profession does not allow for them to turn their back on those who need them? Their going on strike is tantamount to turning their back on those who need them. IMO
Thanks,
Tajudeen Raji
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Nigerian public office holders think and act stupid. They lack crisis management techniques. This is the same stupid solution that Babatunde Fashola adopted, when doctors were striking in Lagos State a few years back. He ordered the sack of the striking doctors, just like Adebowale. Like I said at the time, foreign governments and companies would snatch some of them up quickly. Saudi Arabia and Dubai are good example of countries that offer good pay to Nigerian doctors. Nigeria has only 35,000 medical doctors and needs at least 237,000 doctors to be comfortable. Instead of Nigerian public officials trying to work with striking doctors, they act stupid by firing them and eventually losing some of them to foreign countries. They will never learn.Stupid is what Stupid does. You can't stop Stupid from acting Stupid.KayodeNigeria's Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, has directed the chief medical directors and medical director of federal tertiary hospitals to fill the vacancies created by resident doctors who have "abandoned" their training programme by refusing to report for work.The directive was contained in a circular signed by the permanent secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, Amina Shamaki, and sent to medical directors of hospitals."It has come to the notice of the Management of the Ministry that some Resident Doctors in your establishment have voluntarily withdrawn from the Residency Training Program by refusing to report for training without authorization. Public Service Rule, PSR 030402 (e) is relevant. This is in spite of the ongoing negotiations on their demands put forward by the representatives of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) under the auspices of the Nigerian Medical Association."In view of this development, you are hereby directed to replace all the doctors that have withdrawn their services, with others from the pool of applicants for the training programs in the various disciplines in order not to create ominous gap in training with attendant disruption of health care delivery in your facility."Meanwhile, the ministry is working with the panel on the review of the Residency Training Program in Nigeria, led by Professor Wole Atoyebi, the Registrar of the National Postgraduate Medical College, to fast-track the development of a comprehensive blueprint for postgraduate training of doctors in the country."Please, ensure immediate compliance," the circular read.
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