It is no longer news or rumour that the Fulani Herdsmen have become the latest reason for security concern in Nigeria, not just to lives and properties but to the future of Agriculture and food security in Nigeria.
It is saddening that Nigerian Medical Doctors have assumed the herdsmen model. They do this under the auspices of NMA, ASSOPON, ARD, MDCAN, etc.
In a similar way a typical Fulani Nomadic would accuse the national headache herdsmen of coming from outside the country, the NMA would persistently say that the physicians causing trouble with other healthcare professionals are their "half brothers", the pathologists who they say are engineering trouble here and there for want of duty or fear of extinction.
as a replica of the herdsmen ideology, who believe that their cows have more value than your crops, the Nigerian Doctors believe that every sub-sector of the health sector can be turned into their grazing ranch, a situation that can be best described as a height of madness.
Yesterday 19th May,2017, one Doctor Ekwere, a resident doctor in University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH) proposed to move his colleagues to start running call duty in the hospital's Blood Bank, a sacrosanct sub-unit of the Medical Laboratory Profession, claiming it is enshrined in their curriculum, a curriculum he also claimed was not handy.
It is on record that some three years ago, a similar madness came upon them to assume call duty in Blood Bank, a move which was quickly intercepted by the Department for State Security Services to forestall the inevitable casualties if the two professions were allowed to log horns in the Blood Bank.
One would begin to wonder why wouldn't a Medical Laboratory Scientist struggle the consulting room, the patient's ward or the theater with the doctor. Is it because they are afraid of the doctors or because they are more ethical and confine themselves to their professional territory? The answer I leave in the minds of the masses.
According to the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria Act, 2003 under offences section 22(2) "A person who is not a member of the profession shall not practise the profession or, in expectation of reward, take or use any name, title, addition or description implying that he is in practice as a member of the profession... "
A medical doctor who thinks he can assume duty in the Blood Bank should ask his/herself on what legal ground can I function or operate in the Blood Bank.
It is also on record that there is an ongoing obnoxious bill sponsored by a medical doctor in the Senate which aims at duplicating functions, and to cause unnecessary anarchy in the Radiography Profession.
At this point this question becomes unavoidable : "WHY DO OUR DOCTORS WHO WERE SUPPOSED TO WORK WITH OTHER HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AS A TEAM RATHER TURN THEMSELVES INTO HOSTILE AND BRUTAL HOODLUMS IN THE HEALTH SECTOR? "
I wonder were some of you get your facts. Why don't you submit on the net "definition of medical microbiology" definition of chemical pathologist" and "definition of haematologist"
ReplyDeleteWe can talk after that
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/haematologist
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_microbiology
ReplyDeletehttp://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/chemical+pathology
ReplyDeletehttp://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/haematologist
ReplyDeleteI do hope all the above clears your doubts that you can only study medicine to become any of them. So if you address your self as such then you are a quack
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