The Nation's health sector may witness deeper crisis as a face off is brewing between between medical personnel in the country's primary health sector (PHS) and the federal government over proposal by the later to review the condidtion of service of health workers at the nations 774 local government areas.

 

The medical personnel are bitter with the federal government's attempts to stagnate their profesional growth by peeging them at level 16 as against the 17 approved for thier counterparts in the federal and 36 states of the country.

 

Members of the body under the aegis of concerned primary health care physicians in a statement yesterday said " the draft scheme is totally ignorant of the functions of primary health care coordinators, especially in situations where they are appropriately available as medical officers of health