Doctors have no reason to go on strike – Jonathan

Okooo....President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed deep concern over the incessant strikes by doctors in the country, saying there is no reason for them to go on strike given the various contributions of government to the health sector.
Jonathan stated this in Bauchi on Monday while inaugurating the 400-bed hospital constructed by the Bauchi State Government.

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He said, “As a government, we will do our best to come up with programmes and policies that will make them earn commensurate revenue so that they will be stable and do the work they have chosen to do.
“You cannot pay doctors very well if they are just tied to one small hospital from morning till night, from January to December.
“A professional doctor, who is good in open-heart surgery, should be able to serve the whole country; and that is the trend and that is why I think that the country must grow to even reduce the issue of strike, strike, strike.
“There is no reason why medical doctors should be going on strikes.”
The President promised that the Federal Government would soon establish six referral hospitals in all the six zones in the country, including Bauchi State, saying these hospitals would help treat special cases.
He said with the commitment of the Federal Government to primary and tertiary health centers, his administration successfully eliminated guinea worm in Ebonyi State as well as other states of the federation.
Jonathan vowed that by the end of this year, polio would be eradicated in Nigeria saying the World Health Organisation would declare Nigeria as polio free by the end of this year.
“There is no reason why any child, born healthy, should lack medical care and as a result, develop polio,” he added.