Every side involved in a labour dispute uses its most powerful tool to press home its demands. While the labour unions use industrial action or strike as we call the govt uses threat and actual termination of appointment of the union members involved. When the unions use theirs they should expect the govt to do likewise.
To resolve this incessant industrial actions we need to go back to the condition/scheme of service of these govt establishments. Do they permit industrial actions? If they do fine but if they don't hmmm. Do these labour unions enjoy the protection of the law

phantom: now I understand why demdem calls this man RETARDEEN.

barcanista: When the Glorified quacks called doctors are hungry, they will be reabsorbed. For NOW...They are FIRED!!!




I AM WITH THE PRESIDENT ON THIS

barcanista is the only APC comrade that is always objective..others na wash

E go blow for this Man face like Weed wey get too much Seed!

Privatisation tins on my mind.

Fg has moved its queen.

Government that could not successfully privatize nitel wants to privatize the health care system with all my stubborn ogas. I am watching in 4k.

so sacking all the doctors is the way forward abi? so who mans the hospital now ? consultants? i'll see how many patients they will be able to see before they start breaking down with sicknesses. Of what use is the consultant if there are no resident doctors to train? who will take the medical students on rounds etc? they might sack the consultants as well and appoint them as medical officers

Gej=the otueke man, the clueless
one, he has no shows,
corruption is not stealing, the
daft one,the Ebola man, the zoo-
logist, the slow one, the corrupt
one, the single term man, the
10000 mega watts man, the
subsidy man, the synonym of
Boko haram, the phideephi
candidate, Gej's supporters=
fools colony. No lie, only facts!

atlwireles:


Coming from a pest like you in need of fumigation, I will call it a compliment to the President. Mor0nic retarddeddddd you are, and will remain so forever.

tell me your favorite drink, I would buy u a carton a day! Epic! To hell with the faggotss and faggotress! I only pity the genuine doctors!

onyxo76: so sacking all the doctors is the way forward abi? so who mans the hospital now ? consultants? i'll see how many patients they will be able to see before they start breaking down with sicknesses. Of what use is the consultant if there are no resident doctors to train? who will take the medical students on rounds etc? they might sack the consultants as well and appoint them as medical officers

I'll be surprised (and disappointed) if the consultants actually dont join the strike under the circumstances.

who says GEJ is not working? which other president has created 16,000 jobs in under 24 hours

The President, Goodluck Jonathan, has ordered the sack of all resident doctors in Nigerian hospitals.

The sack was contained in a directive by Mr. Jonathan to the Federal Ministry of Health to suspend all residency training programme for Nigerian doctors.

The directive was stated in an internal memo dated August 13 and signed by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, L.N. Awute, to federal hospitals.

Mr. Awute said the president’s directive was given following an appraisal of the challenges facing the health sector.

“Mr. President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR has suspended the Residency Training Programme for Doctors in Nigeria indefinitely for the purposes of appraising the challenges facing the health sector,” Mr. Awute said.

He said the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, has also directed that “letters of termination of residency training” be issued to all affected resident doctors in hospitals immediately.

The memo asked the management of all public hospitals to take necessary measures to restore full medical services in the hospitals, even without the resident doctors.

In what appears to show the reason for government’s action, the permanent secretary said the hospital could employ part time doctors who must be of ‘good behaviour.’

“Note however, this is without prejudice to the employment of Locum Physicians on six (6) months renewable contract tied to productivity and good behaviour,” Mr. Awute said.

Such recruitments must, however, be “be approved by Mr. President through the Honourable Minister of Health.”

Doctors react

In his reaction, the President, National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, Jubril Abdullahi, told PREMIUM TIMES that the president’s directive is illegal.

He said the decision shows that Mr. Jonathan yielded to the demand of the Joint Health Workers Union, JOHESU.

“The action of Mr. President is illegal because there are several Acts that recognize Residencies in Nigeria and his action speaks volume of the government’s decision to follow the dictates of the Joint Health Workers Union. This is one of the issues the union is asking for.

“Whatever the government have done in their reaction to the NMA’s strike means they are not ready for dialogue because while we are engaging them, they have resorted to this,” Mr. Abdullahi said, saying members of his association nationwide were about 16,000.

A resident doctor, who spoke on anonymity to avoid persecution, condemned the decision saying he was now officially unemployed.

The doctor, a staff of a teaching hospital, said a colleague of his had just sent him another circular ordering all resident doctors to surrender hospital property in their possession.

The circular, seen by PREMIUM TIMES, said the doctor’s salaries and allowances for one month has been paid in lieu of the notice as they ordinarily are not entitled to any salaries for the period they have been on strike.

“In compliance with this order, I am to regrettably inform you that your appointment in this hospital is hereby terminated forthwith,” the letter issued residents doctors in a teaching hospital in the South South region of Nigeria stated.

The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, of which the resident doctors are members, has been on strike since July 1.

One of the demands of the NMA was that the Federal Government through the Ministry of Health should formalize and implement the report of the inter-agency committee on residency training.

The NMA also asked the FG to release a uniform template on the appointment of resident doctors and a funding framework for residency training established while overseas clinical attachment be fully restored and properly funded.

Resident doctors are doctors being trained to become specialists/ consultants in different fields of medicine. During their 4 to 5 years training to become consultants, they work in different government hospitals and make up the majority of doctors in teaching hospitals.

“Let’s see how this will work. Except they want to kill the teaching hospitals and the health sector in general,” another resident doctor told PREMIUM TIMES.

He explained that he believed the incessant strike by resident doctors and the NMA was what influenced the government’s decision but doubted that it would be effective.

“In our own teaching hospital, about 90 per cent of the doctors are resident doctors, there are few medical officers. So how can you sack 90 per cent of doctors in a hospital?” he asked rhetorically.


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i've always been anti jonathan but am fully with him on dis.those doctors are very useless and overpampered.they are all suffering from superiority complex

moufan: i've always been anti jonathan but am fully with him on dis.those doctors are very useless and overpampered.they are all suffering from superiority complex

Thank you. Now that you are fully with GEJ in this matter, who will treat all the patients, the sick, the infirm. You?

Back on topic, this is another stupid decision in a long line of stupid decisions taken by this administration.

Have you and your fellow m0r0ns like @atlwireless ever looked at the doctor:patient ratio before?

texazzpete:

Thank you. Now that you are fully with GEJ in this matter, who will treat all the patients, the sick, the infirm. You?

Back on topic, this is another stupid decision in a long line of stupid decisions taken by this administration.

Have you and your fellow m0r0ns like @atlwireless ever looked at the doctor:patient ratio before?

don't ever in ur life quote me again,didirin

Never really supported the doctors, but this is a stupid move by General and emperor of Nigeria, field commander GEJ.

moufan: don't ever in ur life quote me again,didirin

Or you'll do what? Break down and run to your mommy?

I quote Nairaland dolts to shame them, to force them to see the error of their ways. You reason like a dolt, so you fit the bill.

There are many of us who want to see Nigeria improve, to reach Her potential. Traitors like you and your fellow sycophants are to be challenged!

texazzpete:

Or you'll do what? Break down and run to your mommy?

I quote Nairaland dolts to shame them, to force them to see the error of their ways. You reason like a dolt, so you fit the bill.

There are many of us who want to see Nigeria improve, to reach Her potential. Traitors like you and your fellow sycophants are to be challenged!

didirin nie se!!!ode

moufan: didirin nie se!!!ode

Is that it? You'll abuse me in a language I do not understand?

Such an impotent response.

What a silly action? Anyone that has been in teaching hospital knows that resident doctors do 70% of the work. Locum doctors can never be as good as the resident doctors. I expect more avoidable deaths in our hospitals. When Nigerians understand the implication of the decision, they will rise to action. Who will take over from those old consultants when they retire? Chei! Jonathan is clueless o.

moufan: didirin nie se!!!ode

Mr man answer Her or keep quiet, why resort to ramblings when faced with intellectual conflict.

This will be my last post on Nairaland. There is a conspiracy from the moderators to shut me down.

I broke this story and I was completely ignored like several of my previous posts. Thank you all for your support reading my posts.

I am not craving front page but aknowledgement. I break a story, someone copies it and you transfer the person's post to front page. No hard feelings

citizenisb: This will be my last post on Nairaland. There is a conspiracy from the moderators to shut me down.
I broke this story and I was completely ignored like several of my previous posts. Thank you all for your support reading my posts.
I am not craving front page but aknowledgement. I break a story, someone copies it and you transfer the person's post to front page. No hard feelings

Apologies, the mod didn't sight yours on time. An error on our part.

www.nairaland.com/1857651/fg-suspends-residency-training

Good move.

Place doctors on performance and appraisal sheets.

Let them strive to keep their jobs like bankers..

Indolent staff...

Oh yeah... just like the same way they sacked they striking lecturers.

In naija, na rumours be d truth o... this may be real

GEJ seems to be making sense these days. I would have pitied the doctors but the way they've been acting really shows they are feeling too proud and should be checked. No matter what u are fighting for, your country is fighting Ebola yet u are on strike just because some other professionals got a position. Who does that? I know for sure this would be reversed but it should get them ruffled in the time being.

Nigeria is dealing with Ebola very well without NMA, I think we can continue to survive without them

pumpingmachine: GEJ seems to be making sense these days. I would have pitied the doctors but the way they've been acting really shows they are feeling too proud and should be checked. No matter what u are fighting for, your country is fighting Ebola yet u are on strike just because some other professionals got a position. Who does that? I know for sure this would be reversed but it should get them ruffled in the time being.

Nigeria is dealing with Ebola very well without NMA, I think we can continue to survive without them

Your President sacks 16,000 doctors during a raging epidemic and you see nothing wrong with it?

In Nigeria, a militant can earn 5 times the pay of a consultant doctor. A local government counsellor could earn 10 times more. FG is truly working! The funds allocated to presidential zoo may surpass what they will give to UCH.

GEJ TILL FOREVER!!!

The comments on this thread are just sad. GEJ makes the most horrible decisions in the world because he knows that he will always have the support of some Nigerians who won't see through his heartlessness and stupidity. Was it not the same Nigerians that supported the sack of all Nigerian university lecturers during the ASUU saga? I guess GEJ didn't get enough 'foreign' lecturers to replace them. Polytechnic lecturers went on strike for more than a year while our president watched? ASUU.. And not doctors.. And yet you still don't see anything wrong with GEJ?

ACM10: What a silly action? Anyone that has been in teaching hospital knows that resident doctors do 70% of the work. Locum doctors can never be as good as the resident doctors. I expect more avoidable deaths in our hospitals. When Nigerians understand the implication of the decision, they will rise to action. Who will take over from those old consultants when they retire? Chei! Jonathan is clueless o.

LOL. That's why I'm shocked about the comments here. People don't understand the implication of this dumb move by GEJ.

I believe the sack is a blessing in disguise:
1. Many of our collegues considering returning home...now know where they stand...
2. These would force registrars to explore other opportunities in health industry

What do you think?