The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has condemned the practice of employing doctors as casual workers in Lagos, just as it hailed the plan by the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) to curb excessive speeding by motorists through installation of speed limit device in commercial vehicles from June next year.
“The association condemns in totality, the practice in Lagos State where doctors are being employed as casual workers through the so-called ‘contract appointment,” the NMA said in a communiqué after its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting which took place in Jos from November 30 to December 6, 2014.
It added: “The NMA reiterates that this casualisation of workers (doctors) below the age of 50 years is illegal as it is at variance with the public and civil service rules.”
Expressing concern over what it called incessant vehicular crashes on Nigeria’s highways, the NMA described the move by the FRSC to commence the installation of speed limit device as “a most welcome idea.” It expressed optimism that such a technology would curb over-speeding and protect the lives of passengers.
The communiqué which was signed by the president, Dr Lawrence Kayode Obembe, said the association agreed with the federal government that health insurance is the best vehicle to universal health coverage.
It added: “It is our view that the presidential mandate of 30 percent coverage of Nigerians in NHIS by 2015 is conservative enough.
The challenge now is in the courts of the three tiers of government to work towards the institutionalisation of the scheme.”
By Onimisi Alao
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