The federal government must seize the opportunity provided by the current NMA strike to bring sanity to the health sector for the sake of ordinary Nigerians.
All the combatants(NMA and JOHESU) should be brought to a round table discussion and all the various demands analysed.
As for hazard and specialist allowances/skipping,these are very simple to approve. For directorate,every degree holder in the sector should be able to rise to a director either in the hospital or ministry depending on available vacancies.
On issue of consultants,all health workers including ward attendants should have opportunity of becoming consultants. But govt must spell out the procedure and level of training required to become a consultant in each field. Also,the role of each consultant must be spelt out to avoid clashes. Evidence and documents should be obtained from countries where such arrangement exists.
As for CMDs,it should be changed to CEO and reserved for qualified health administrators surported by several directors in the hospital. When the above is done,medical elders will see reason why they should allow as many doctors as possible become consultants instead of frustrating them as it is been done now. In the end,our patients will be the winners. Whoever is not ready for this should go into private practice.
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