Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) on Tuesday said the doctors’ strike which commenced today is not to inflict hardship on Nigerians, but to protect ethics of medical profession as an essence to improve health standard.
The chairman of the Oyo State chapter of the association, Dr. Malomo Adefolarin while addressing journalists said that, lack of respect for medical profession that is borne out of titles, authorities and influence as sheer booties of war is repugnant and dangerous to good health care delivery, added that the excellence of other health care workers outstrips the mere need to mimic doctors.
He said, "Government has however remained quiet on policies that have driven two regulatory bodies to exchange words on the pages of newspapers; she has retained titles and arrangements that belie substance and ask people whose entry point is first degree to direct those whose entry point are topmost postgraduate degrees.
" Government is asking those who have never been required to and who have not published any articles in learned journals to direct professors, in a tertiary institution. Government has agreed to cancel functional Deputy Directorship of Clinical Services, Research and Training while multiplying it for others."
He said government had made other health workers skip salary scale steps while 'skipping' doctors in executing it, adding that these are only a few among various strategic omissions by government which are unknown to Nigerians as what make things dreadfully worse in the hospitals especially government owned tertiary ones.
He informed that the strike would be total and indefinite, saying though “it is regrettable but unavoidable and will be in line with proper professional regulations.”
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