Hehehe....The Medical and Dental Consultants
Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) has described as unwarranted the current strike
being observed by resident doctors in government-owned hospitals.
Decrying the fact that hospitals
have been operating bellow capacity for weeks due to National Association of
Resident Doctors (NARD) resort to industrial action, National President of
MDCAN, Dr. Steve Oluwole, said striking doctors had also ignored the directive
of the National Medical Association (NMA) to return to work.
NARD members are on strike over the
non-payment of salaries and skipping of grade levels.
However, on June 18, following a
meeting with Chief Medical Directors of hospitals, the NMA, in a memo signed by
its national President, Dr. Kayode Obembe asked that doctors suspend the strike
as some institutions had started payment even as the association was still
working for others to be paid.
Oluwole, who spoke at a press
briefing held in Abuja yesterday, stated that strikes had taken a toll on the
health care system.
He called on the doctors to resume
work, just as he noted that strikes had negatively affected the quality of
service provided to patients.
He said: “The cycle of strikes and
counter strikes that have bedevilled tertiary institutions for sundry issues
have weakened health services, shown maximum disrespect for human lives and
jettisoned the established order of humanity to care for the sick.
“The MDCAN therefore, adopts the
directive of the NMA that all hospitals on strike should suspend such.”
By: KEMI YESUFU
The Sun
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