The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has extended by four weeks its subsisting ultimatum to allow for implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between it and the Federal Government.
The President of the association, Dr Osahon Enabulele, told a news conference in Abuja on Monday that the extension was an outcome of its National Executive Council meeting held on Sept. 23 in Abuja.
The National Executive Council (NEC) welcomed some developments in the Memorandum of Understanding reached at the end of the Conciliation meeting held between the Nigerian Medical Association and the Federal Government negotiating team and urged the NMA negotiating team to continue the dialogue with government.
Furthermore, in appraising the observed implementation of the MoU thus far, NEC unanimously resolved to extend by 4 weeks the subsisting ultimatum to allow for implementation of the elements of the MoU within the government’s set time lines.
Government gave itself four weeks to do the necessary things to permanently address the issues tabled before it by the Nigerian Medical Association.``
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that on Sept. 2, NMA gave the federal government a 21-day ultimatum to tackle the challenges confronting the healthcare system in the country.
NAN also recalls that Enabulele said ``the on-going destruction of the fabric of professionalism and hierarchical order in Nigerian public hospitals and the health sector`` gave rise to the earlier ultimatum.
Enabulele said the current MoU was reached at the end of a conciliatory meeting held between the association and the federal government negotiation team on Sept. 9.
The president of the association explained that a committee headed by the head of the civil service of the federation, Alh Bukar Goni Aji, was inaugurated on Sept. 13 to address the issues raised by NMA and make recommendations to government within four weeks.
He said the committee was inaugurated by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim.
Enabulele, however, said that at the end of the four weeks extension, the association would take appropriate actions to protect the interests of its members, if government failed to address the pending issues.
However, NEC resolved that at the expiration of the four weeks extension, the association shall reappraise the commitment of the Federal Government to its self-determined time line for the implementation of the MoU and take appropriate actions as she deems fit without further warning.
NEC resolved to take necessary actions to protect the interests of its members if government fails to urgently and permanently resolve the unacceptable irregularities evident in the current implementation of IPPIS scheme.``
NAN reports that the issues at stake border on the reconstitution of the governing board of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) to enable it to perform its statutory regulatory functions.
Some others are irregularities in the remuneration of doctors occasioned by the implementation of the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) and establishing the office of the surgeon-general of Nigeria.
The NMA is also agitating the adoption of public private partnership in the health sector as well as the funding and training of resident doctors, among others.
News Agency of Nigeria(NAN)
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