A former National President of the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, Prof. Michael Ozovehe Ogirima, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to put machineries in motion with a view to ending the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by the National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, before things go out of place.
Our Kogi State Correspondent reports that Prof. Ogirima made the call Thursday August 12, at the 2021 Kogi State Chapter of Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, annual general meeting and scientific conference, held in Lokoja.
The event was themed: “The deteriorating security situation in Nigeria, implications for healthcare delivery".
The former NMA President, described the ongoing strike by the resident Doctors as sad, “when the world is still battling with the deadly coronavirus pandemics as sad”.
The Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, said strike has become a reoccurring decimal in Nigeria's system for workers to press home their demands, stressing that Nigerians are the ones bearing the heat as a result of the industrial action.
He equally lamented the mass exodus of Medical Practitioners out of the county, “due to poor remuneration from their employers”.
Earlier, the Kogi State Chairman, Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, Dr. Omakoji Simeon Oyiguh, said it was not in the public interest and National security for the Federal Government to continue to create the environment for continuous brain drain, as resident Doctors continue to be frustrated by the Federal Government to deliver on training and service.
Continuing Oyigu, said, “it is not politically correct to employ Doctors as Federal Government and cannot again institute the process for their payment, in a manner that resident Doctors are employed and not paid for several months on the job".
Speaking on this year's AGM theme, "the deteriorating security situation in Nigeria, implications for healthcare delivery" the NMA Chairman explained that, "Our theme for this year is on account of the growing insecurity in Nigeria.
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