For the ignorant members of the populace gloating over this mass sack of Doctors, let me explain to you what just happened. Lets just take a simple contraption and super-impose it on the medical hierarchy so you will appreciate the fact that your President has taken the health sector on a final journey to Golgotha: Now you know Doctors have hierarchy all over the World, imagine the world of Medicine to be the educational sector where the top Doctors are graduates (the Consultants and Professors).....,and the Medical Students are still in Kindergaten, what that means is those in Primary and Secondary Schools will be the Resident Doctors, those whom GEJ just fired. Note that for a kindergarten to become a graduate, he has to pass through Primary and Secondary School, this is a necessary link. What our President has just done is to severe that link in Medicine. Imagine a country with University graduates that all of a sudden stopped Primary and Secondary education nationwide. That link in medicine, depending on the specialty is between 5-8 years long, sometimes even more. In essence, the Post Graduate Medical Training in Nigeria is officially dead. When these Consultants retire, there will be NOBODY to replace them, and after Medical students graduate, they CANNOT specialise. When you fall ill with certain kinds of ailments that require specialist input, YOU WILL BE DONE FOR. Its just a matter of time. But even now, there are still dire consequences. These Resident Doctors just sacked (16,000 of them) carry many skills that those below them (the house officers) do not have, skills that those above them (the Consultants) have forgotten and may not perform proficiently or even at all. It will be practically impossible to replace these set of Doctors. The immediate consequences of this deficiency should the hospitals resume would be very obvious. The chain of command will be broken because a vital part of that chain is lost, and morale will even fall lower. So....,keep your gloating to your-self. Your dear President has just scored an own goal.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 06:33:31 +0000
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