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Dr. Ebenezer Adekunle Ajayi
Chief Medical Director (FETHI)

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Nigerian govt proposes N24,000 minimum wage; states N20,000; NLC wants N30,000 – Ngige
October 10, 2018Sani Tukur
Federal Secretariat Complex, Abuja
Federal Secretariat Complex, Abuja
The Federal Government of Nigeria has said after consultations it proposed N24,000 as the new minimum wage for civil servants.

The Minister of Labour and employment, Chris Ngige, stated this Wednesday while briefing State House correspondents after the meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC).

Mr. Ngige was responding to media reports quoting the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, saying that the tri-partite committee discussing the demand for new minimum wage has agreed to increase it from the current N19,200 to N30,000.

“Such information is not true,” Mr Ngige said.

The minister said when the committee reconvened on October 5, after the NLC had called off its nationwide strike, “ the organised labour came down to N30,000, the organised private sector came down to N25,000.”

He also said the federal government had to consult with the 36 state governors. After the consultations, he said, the federal government proposed N24,000 while governors proposed N20,000.

Mr Ngige said the government is therefore still consulting and negotiations is ongoing.

He said in accordance with Convention 131 of International Labour Organisation, the most important thing to consider in fixing the new minimum wage is the ability to pay.

The NLC had initially proposed a N50,000 minimum wage for workers, a move opposed by many state governors, many of whom are unable to regularly pay the current N18,000 minimum wage.

News update. A 32 year old male patient was brought into the Theater of Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti (FETHI) in the early hours of today, Friday, 13th July, 2018 with Subdural Haematoma (Bleeding into the brain).

The surgery (Craniotomy) commenced at about 12:15am under general Anaesthesia and ended at 2:20am.

The surgery was successfully carried out by the hospital surgical team led by our Neurosurgeon, Dr Okunola.

NO WORK NO PAY RULE.... should be challenged in court.

This is a democratic system of government where the government is by the people and for the people..an autocratic ideology should not be allowed to thrive and we accept it as sacrifice.
If the workers of any nation goes on strike it Is an indication of the failure of the government of such nation to perform her duties either as spelt out by the law or in agreements reached.

Any sane government should not seek to punish striking workers with non payment of wages.instead a sensible government sees such strike action as an eye opener to better understand how the government is affecting the governed.
Alas! The buhari led administration has chosen the part of military dictatorship by attempting to take away the only leverage a civil servants has in bringing the government into understand their needs.

This beautiful nonsense will not stand..you are not doing us any favour by occupying the office of minister or president instead we are the ones who have favoured you by electing you into these offices , and now the only way to repay the electorate is to seek to muzzle them like ox.

We should reject this in its entirety. It is slavery mentality for us to think this is sacrifice. Prof. Adewole cannot dictate to us what to do and what not to do. He is occupying an office that confers on him a civil responsibility not a military role.

I want to challenge our leaders and the leadership of the TUC and NLC into action. This ideology must be revoked and sanity must be lent to our misguided government.

Thank you

Molade James K.

JOHESU AND NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT VS NMA HEALTH BATTLE: THIS IS THE CONCLUSION OF THE MATTER

By Fejiro Oliver

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all. Fidel Castro

This is a long write-up for intellectuals who can research and not those who dwell in shallow arguments.

For two years, I purposely stayed away from writing as an individual on issues that bothered about the health sector in Nigeria, to enable me research on the true international best practices and come out with an informed and none bias position. Apart from education and defense, the most important aspect of a country is its health sector. Sadly enough, the sector in Nigeria has been bedeviled by animosity and fierce battle between the two prominent groups, namely; Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) and the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).

JOHESU consists of all workers in the hospitals apart from Physicians and Dentists who make up NMA. I have decided to skip the word ‘doctor’ for a reason, which will be explained later. Nigeria is currently shut down with death toll rising every twenty four hours since JOHESU embarked on their strike last week. Despite the Federal Government refusal to pay them April salaries, they are bent on not going to work, until their demands are met. The argument from both sides is reasonable, depending on the prism through which one views it.

JOHESU is insisting that the FG honors all the agreement it reached with them, especially as it has to do with allowing their members to reach consultancy level, upward review of the CONHESS salary as agreed with FG, retirement age at 65 and few others. NMA on the other hand believes that the increment in salary for JOHESU will place them at par. They have also fought some JOHESU professionals from attaining consultancy status as well as using the prefix ‘Doctor’ before their name.

First of all, who is a Doctor? The word was never a medical word from origin. It is a Latin word from 1300, which means “Church father,” from Old French doctour, from Medieval Latin doctor “religious teacher, adviser, scholar,” in classical Latin “teacher,” agent noun from docere “to show, teach, cause to know,” originally “make to appear right,” causative of decere “be seemly, fitting,” from PIE root dek- “to take, accept”, as defined by etymonline. When the art of healing came into serious practice, the word ‘Doctor’ was used to replace the word ‘leech’, which they were initially called.

It therefore brings us to the argument on those entitled to use the suffix ‘Dr’ before their names in the health sector. First of all, it’s an acceptable fact that no one went to school to study ‘doctoring’. Unlike Engineers who derived their title from their course of study, this is not entirely so in the health sector.

In the school of health or school of medicine, as it’s called in different universities, the courses are Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Nursing, Medical Rehabilitation or Physical Medicine, Radiography, Medical Laboratory and Optometry. None of these courses is called Doctoring. The word Doctor came to be associated with the art of healing in the medieval period and were initially called Physician and still called so till date. With the advent of Doctor of Philosophy which is the highest level associated with teaching, it later became ascribed to those saddled with the art of healing.

The question now bothers to who is a healer in the health profession and who is a paramedic; a degrading word that has been used many times by Nigerian Physicians to spite other medical workers, who retaliates by calling them Allopathic officers.

In line with international best practices, only the World Health Organisation (WHO) not World Medical Association and International Labor Organisation (ILO) can define the meaning of every profession. In listing structures for each worker, all professionals were listed as ‘Health Professionals’ and not ‘Medical Professionals’. They were divided into two health groups for easy recognition. The first group listed are: Medical Doctors (Generalist Medical Practitioners and Specialist Medical Practitioners), Nursing and Midwifery Professionals, Traditional and Complementary Medicine Professionals, ***Paramedical Practitioners and Veterinarians.

The second group listed Dentists, Pharmacists, Environmental and Occupational Health and Hygiene Professionals, Physiotherapists, Dieticians and Nutritionists, Audiologists and Speech Therapists, Optometrists and Ophthalmic Opticians and Health Professionals Not Elsewhere Classified.

Note that Dentists which is a member of NMA is in the second category and Paramedics in the first category, according to International best practices that we like to flout.

Let us take a look at WHO definition of these core workers in the health sector.

According to WHO, ‘a Generalist medical doctors (including family and primary care doctors) diagnose, TREAT and prevent illness, disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments and maintain general health in humans through application of the principles and procedures of modern medicine. They plan, supervise and evaluate the implementation of care and treatment plans by other health care providers. They do not limit their practice to certain disease categories or methods of treatment, and may assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families and communities’.

Same WHO notes that ‘Nursing professionals provide TREATMENT, support and care services for people who are in need of nursing care due to the effects of ageing, injury, illness or other physical or mental impairment, or potential risks to health, according to the practice and standards of modern nursing. They assume responsibility for the planning and management of the care of patients, including the supervision of other health care workers, working autonomously or in teams with medical doctors and others in the practical application of preventive and curative measures in clinical and community settings’.

Going down to traditional level, WHO was direct when it stated that ‘Traditional and complementary medicine professionals examine patients and prevent and TREAT illness, disease, injury and other physical, mental and psychosocial ailments by applying knowledge, skills and practices acquired through extensive study of the theories and experiences originating in specific cultures. They research, develop and implement treatment plans using applications such as acupuncture, ayurvedic, homoeopathic and herbal medicine’.

For Dentists, the world body noted that ‘Dentists (including dental surgeons and related) diagnose, TREAT and prevent diseases, injuries and abnormalities of the teeth, mouth, jaws and associated tissues by applying the principles and procedures of modern dentistry. They use a broad range of specialized diagnostic, surgical and other techniques to promote and restore oral health’.

According to its supreme definition, ‘Pharmacists store, preserve, compound and dispense medicinal products. They counsel on the proper use and adverse effects of drugs and medicines following prescriptions issued by medical doctors and other health professionals. They contribute to researching, testing, preparing, prescribing and monitoring medicinal therapies for optimizing human health’.

For Physiotherapists, WHO didn’t mince word saying that ‘Physiotherapists assess, plan and implement rehabilitative programs that improve or restore human motor functions, maximize movement ability, relieve pain syndromes, and treat or prevent physical challenges associated with injuries, diseases and other impairments. They apply a broad range of physical therapies and techniques such as movement, ultrasound, heating, laser and other techniques. They may develop and implement programmes for screening and prevention of common physical ailments and disorders. ILO in classifying their job stated that “Physiotherapists and related associate professionals TREAT disorders of bones, muscles and parts of the circulatory or the nervous system by manipulative methods, and ultrasound, heating, laser or similar techniques, or apply physiotherapy and related therapies as part of the treatment for the physically disabled, mentally ill or unbalanced.

For Optometrists, the world body says Optometrists and ophthalmic opticians provide diagnosis, management and TREATMENT services for disorders of the eyes and visual system. They counsel and advise on eye care and safety, and prescribe optical aids or other therapies for visual disturbance.

While this may sound as a thesis, I will leave out what the sacred definition of WHO and ILO gave to the two eyes of medicine, notably Radiography and Medical Laboratory. The reader can Google it up.

By these definitions, five professions TREAT sicknesses and disorders and one provides the drugs or body gel they prescribe, while two gives a clearer picture of the diagnosis through tests and imaging.

They are General Practitioner called Medical Doctor, Traditional or complimentary medicine practitioners/Homeopathy, Dentists, Nurses, Optometrists and Physiotherapists. Nursing being a unique and distinct profession cannot be called Doctors, but the rest whose primary duties is to diagnose treat and certify fit can be called Doctor if their regulatory body so wish.

On consultancy status, it is criminal for a profession to demand for such almighty position simply because of the years spent in service and not by merit. It’s akin to saying a lecturer can rise to the level of Professorship without studying to get PhD. This is where I disagree with JOHESU. Medical Doctors who are consultants didn’t jump the rope. They went through the rigors of residency training, became fellows and merited it.

Medical practice is not law that is determined by the years of practice which leads to the award of SAN. It is study, quest to break medical grounds and solve the everyday health challenges that the world faces. No amount of experience can totally give clinicians that except devotion to knowledge, which is gained through the appropriate postgraduate school or colleges.

It is however unjust for the current disparity in salaries of the two warring groups. Whoever separated the salary structure into CONMESS and CONHESS is the common enemy that we should be fighting today.

It’s absurd and ridiculous that a House Officer will earn higher than a working class Nurse or any other core medical practitioners, when the difference in study is one year. Only a specialist GP should be allowed to earn more than any other clinician, who refuses to also specialize in his/her own field.

The FG should as a matter of urgency make all health workers one salary structure, and their wages determined by level of qualification and specialty as operated globally. The Ministry of Health should be headed by hospitals administrators and not physicians, just as the hospitals should not also be headed by a Dentist or Nurse.

For heaven sake, it’s a profit making venture and not a professional body that the Medical Doctors heading it have turned it to. Only the Chief Medical Advisory Committee (CMAC) head should be a Physician while the Deputy CMAC should be from other clinical department like Medical Laboratory or Pharmacy.

International best practices that we scream always have proven that the top countries in medical field do not have any health worker as their Minister or Head of health sector. Oh, what about the almighty WHO that defines health, the head is not also a medical doctor, but a biologist. If WHO was a Nigerian union, it’s crystal clear that there would have been strike if a Nurse is appointed the head. What then are we saying?

As for JOHESU, calling off the strike now will forever bring your union to doom. Let the government stop salaries till next year, but do not give in to threats and blackmail. Your requests apart from ‘consultancy by years of service’ are just, and Nigerians are solidly behind you, even though we are the ones that ultimately feel the pain. There’s unity in strength and this is the time to be united. The battle is not against NMA but the Federal Government who reserves the right to implement your demands.

Every profession is independent of each other and this right to decency of work cannot be taken from you, not now, tomorrow or in the future.

JOHESU Vs (NIGERIAN HEALTH TERRORISTS) MINISTER OF LABOUR AND MINISTER OF DOCTORS AND SURGEONS IN NIGERIA, ISAAC ADEWOLE.

Without being hypocritical, JOHESU's demands are justified in every ramification.

JOHESU isn't asking for equal pay with physicians or anyone but it's demanding equity, fair treatment and liberalization akin to Soviet's "glasnost and perestroika".

Besides most of our nurses nowadays are degree holders more so that many other members of JOHESU like Pharmacists, Lab Scientists, Physiotherapists etc are also degree holders and all of them constitute the pillars of our health sector even though the nurses offer larger medical contributions to the common masses.

However, since all of them are health care deliverers just as the physicians called "Doctors", who dare say what is good for goose is no longer good for gander?!
JUSTICE HAS NO OTHER NAME BUT JUSTICE.

If other vital professionals like lawyers who pass through the turbulent waters of of legal and ethical drillings both at the University and in the Law Schools are denied GL 10 & even 9 at the entry point, which qualification qualified physicians for GL 12 as was clandestinely done over and over by the agents of NMA poised as " honourable" ministers??

The cabal of 3 minister physicians of Labour & Health are doing great damage to the polity and good governance which we all painstakingly toiled to build.

It, nevertheless, appears most unfortunately that President Buhari is not being fed with the damage being done to the body polity and his dignified and responsive reputation by few of those he chose as his " disciples". Once a minister is bereft of the requisite maturity and civility to ensure and maintain justice, equity and professional neutrality in his ministry, such a minister has automatically lost his ministerial qualification and must be sacked if he fails to resign.

Aside the lives of Nigerians lost to terrorism and other bloody clashes, the innocent lives being lost in the hospitals and other health establishments as at present is gargantuan and will soon surpass the number of deaths caused by Boko Haram in the past years if nothing drastic is done to ensure justice in our health sector.

In health sector, just as is practised in advanced worlds, there should be A UNIFIED SALARY STRUCTURE FOR JOHESU AND NMA WHILE ALLOWANCES LIKE CALL DUTY ETC. MAKE THE DIFFERENCE TO THOSE WHO ARE ENTITLED TO SAME.

If this is done, then the persistent Ngige/Adewole - made imbroglio in our health sector will be a thing of the past.

It is, nonetheless, said in legal parlance that "ubberimae fiddei" meaning that agreements must be honoured! Labour minister initially denied existence of any MOU he executed with JOHESU, when same was produced to counter his mendacious claim, he turned round and shamelessly called it an ordinary minutes of meeting! Alas, when the incredible claim was being considered lunatic and most unreasonable, he further turned round to claim the existing MOU was no longer feasible perhaps playing a sycophantic script of the government's adversaries or dancing to the tune of his cabal and threat of NMA, his professional body.

It is now obvious that the 3 ministers of Labour, Health and health Jnr (Ngige, Adewole and Ehanire) have replaced their patriotism to Nigeria and their loyalty to the President with their "comradeship" of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA.

Therefore, they have not only betrayed Nigerians but also the trust and confidence reposed them by Mr President.

Most unbelievably, in order to perfect their well considered conspiracy to elongate the industrial action for possible pecuniary benefits and perpetrate unsavoury financial anomalies, the 3 minister cabal (and their NMA accomplice) - who deliberately threw court judgment into the gutter, mandated Isaac Adewole to invoke the autocratic No Work No Pay policy in the most barbaric manner against their opposing Professionals in JOHESU who have not only worked for 19 days but who duly gave the required notice in concurrence with the extant laws when the said "honourable" ministers have ignominiously failed and refused to implement the contents of the agreed MOU in the most archaic way!

I wonder what type of precedent is being laid before the younger generation by the lying, disloyal and unpatriotic ministers who have thrown social decency, professional decorum and political competence to the dogs!

Therefore, I urge well meaning Nigerians to demand immediate SACK of Chris Ngige, Isaac Adewole and his Junior Minister Ehanire in order to restore sanity to our health sector and save multitude of lives of the common Nigerians who have no means to go for overseas medical treatment.

Barrister (Prince) A. Adewoyin.

SACK and PROSECUTE ISAAC ADEWALE NOW!!!
Foremost I am not a financial member of the conglomerate unions that formed JOHESU, but I will always support a just cause and despite the facts that based on my personal belief and as a student/teacher of Legal ethics/ ethical issues I abhor strikes, particularly when it affects the health sector.Eventhough regrettably this seems to be the only language understood by the government.
The medical profession no doubt is one of the best in human race and is made up of men/ women of exceptional discipline, proven/rare integrity humane and modest.And they have earned my respect and love and I believe that of many Nigerians. Unfortunately, some negligible few wants to polute this revered profession for their selfish aggrandisement(Isaac Adewale)in my mind.
His actions and inactions precipitated this unavoidable ungoing strike. And instead of taking steps to ameliorate the situation, he has unabatedly fueled it.
No doubt,we have had too much bloodletting in Borno, Benue, Taraba and Zamafara states to mention a very few due to activities of terrorism.We dont want more please. The most benign definition giving to terrorism is the instilling of fear and causing grievious harm or death. Isaac Adewale has instilled enough fear, threat and caused the death of hundreds of citizens in our hospitals daily during this over 2 weeks strike by JOHESU, what else do you need to get Adewale sacked and arraigned for acts of terrorism? This is in addition to the facts that he has being lying, concealing and misinforming the government and people of Nigeria. He has incited and compelled the CMDs, MDs and other heads of parastatals to invoke the NO WORK NO PAY on workers who had spent 19 days working and after giving adequate NOTICE of the impending action as required by extant Labour Law all in a bit to incite JOHESU to prolong the strike. It most be noted that JOHESU can not be chickened that easily as he ignorantly thought, these are professionals where you have Professors, Ph.D holders, Lawyers etc.
The message here is that instead of JOHESU generalising this issue to extent of calling Adewale as a minister of doctors or calling the ministry as s Ministry of doctors and surgeons, asking for the states and local governments to join the strike, JOHESU should insist that he be sanctioned accordingly and so I humbly suggest that one of the item to be put on the table is to call for his outright sack and prosecution for his ineptitude, impunity, bias, corrupt, concealment, misinformation and causing the death of innocent souls, some of whom had sold all their life savings to access the health services; all culminating into GROSS INCOMPETENCE and be replaced by a very honest, humble and just amongst his colleagues separate all over Nigeria and in APC, to serve as a deterrence.
This is my contribution on the lingering, unnecessary, unfortunate and avoidable strike by JOHESU, I hope you will give it a wider publicity.

In England lab scientist are placed higher than doctor because scientist are they ones who knows the type of diseases on ground. If new diseases break out, they are the ones that takes the lead to know the nature of the disease and how to tackle it. If they made any mistake that is how doctors Will follow the mistake too. Scientists are the bases of medicine of which if anything goes wrong from them hardly before doctor will know. Doctors depends on them to do excellent work

NLC president, Ayuba Wabba, calls
for global best practice and standard
that should guide the action and
inaction of the government in dealing
with striking workers in the health
sector
- He stats that there is an urgent need
for the government to put all
machineries in motion to quickly
meet the legitimate demands of the
striking health unions
- FG reiterates commitment to
enhance workers’ welfare
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has
called on the federal government to
urgently meet the legitimate demands of
the striking workers in the health
sector.
Ayuba Wabba, NLC president, made the
appeal while speaking with newsmen on
Friday, May 4, in Abuja.
Wabba said this appeal has become
necessary in order to save the health
sector from total collapse in the country.
According to him, healthcare workers
and processionals of all the federal
tertiary institutions are currently on
nationwide indefinite industrial action.
“This is largely due to government’s
inability to honour collective bargaining
agreement freely entered with the
unions.
“Every preferential treatment to one
cadre would only compound the
situation.
“Healthcare delivery is a team work and
every healthcare worker and professional
is important to the optimum
performance of the team.
“There should be fair treatment to all
and equity without discrimination as
against what is now being witnessed, ’’
he said.
The NLC president called for global best
practice and standard that should guide
the action and inaction of the
government in dealing with the
precarious situation.
He added that there is an urgent need
for the government to put all
machineries in motion to quickly meet
the legitimate demands of the striking
unions.
Wabba said this was important as the
health system has become shadow of
what it used to be years back when
many countries from Africa trooped to
Nigeria in search of healthcare services.
“The reverse is now the case as many
Nigerians now embark on medical
tourism.
“ This leads to huge capital flight from
our economy. The factors responsible for
this decline include funding issues and
decay in infrastructure and technology, ”
he said.
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Wabba, however, called on government
at all levels to make it mandatory for all
public officers to patronised healthcare
facilities for the medical needs of their
families.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports that the Joint Health Sector
Union (JOHESU) had commenced strike
on April 17, following the Federal
Government’s failure to implement
agreement signed with the unions.
The union’s demands include
adjustment of CONES salary as done for
CONMESS since 2014, and abolition of
scale to scale promotion, payment of
outstanding arrears of promotion,
skipping and relativity.
Others are autonomy of teaching and
specialist hospitals, non ex*****on of
court judgments, review of retirement
age from 60-65 years as done for
teachers in the tertiary education sector.
In a related report, the federal
government said the ongoing effort to
give effect to a new national minimum
wage is evidence that the current
administration is committed to the
upliftment of the workforce.
Chris Ngige, the minister of labour and
employment, said this in a statement
signed by Samuel Olowookere, director
of press in the ministry to mark the
2018 workers’ day celebration.
The minister pledged that the
government was commitment to
enhance workers’ welfare and
prosperity for all citizens in the
country.
Let’s talk about salaries of Nigerian
senators