Doctors on strike

[gogannaka]

If you were a doctor in a government hospital and you are paid N125,000 per month,would you go on strike and see hundreds of poor people die in government hospitals because you want your salary raised to N200,000 per month?

[bakangizo]

That's a tricky question. But knowing our doctors, they would do it. And the unfortunate thing is that the moment their salary is increased, just give them a few months and they'll go back on striker for another increment. It's an endless circle.

[Dan-Borno]

yeah, bakangizo, really tricky, kasan mutumin naka.

i can boldly say without regret that government is over
paying the nigerian doctor, because traditional healers
are even performing better than the present crops of
doctors who only admire the status DR.

only when you go outside nigeria with a nigerian prescription
and diagnosis report that you will understand the lapses
of the nigerian doctor.

not long ago, my friends' son was diagnosed of some ailment
and was asked to pay 1.2million for brain surgery at the
abuja national hospital.  as he cannot afford that amount,
someone referred him to a hospital at Sudan that offer
free services - when the doctors at sudan saw the reports of
the nigerian doctors, they couldnt believe because it is
entirely a different thing - i tell you, in just some minutes the
tissue in the boys' nose was removed without even going into
the OR, the boy is now healthy and doing fine in Abuja.

there are so many instance cases, because the nigerian doctor
does not have the patient to even listen to your complain, he
rushes to write you prescription on a memo pad of a chemist
which he has a share in it.

traditional healers are doing it better.

they hardly attend to 10 patients a day. 

[gogannaka]

Well said.
I believe the Nigerian doctors are being too selfish and unsympathetic.
A doctor should know that he/she is not only a salary earning person but a humanitarian person as well.
The recent strike embarked upon by Government Doctors is condemnable.
Many people that depend on these doctors have died in vain and the doctors are not even sympathetic.
Doctors are among the highest paid government workers but are the most ungrateful.
When they are in Universities they collect monthly allowances as scholarships for the whole duration of study.
When they Graduate their Jobs are secured as you never hear of an unemployed Doctor.
I know that an NYSC doctor is paid N95,000 monthly in Katsina state and N80,000 monthly in Kano state.

Whenever they go on strike it is because of salary.Haba!
I went round some of the Teaching hospitals in the country and i must say am impressed with the modernization,a program embarked upon since Obasanjo's administration. I learnt the president is going to commission the ones in Kano an Illorin, Zaria has since been commissioned by Obasanjo.

Like DB said,the Nigerian Doctors believe they have seen all kind of sickness and as such when they see their patients they diagnose them without even listening to the patient or examining them.
A friends Dad who happened to be around 70yrs accidentally injured his thumb with a toothpick. He went to the doctor and the guy just gave him antibiotic. Days later the hand kept swelling and aching. When he got back to the hospital after taking the full dose without improvement he met another doctor. When she saw the hand she was furious at the other doctor because he didn't examine the patient for blood sugar level or Hypertension and unfortunately the patients blood sugar was very high at that time. Ashe when you are diagnosing an elderly person you should first of all check for signs of diabetes,hypertension etc.
The man had to be admitted and nearly had his hands amputated until luckily,Ibrahim Shekarau visited him and insist he be flown to Egypt for treatment. He came back 2 weeks after with his hands as clean and healthy as before.
My sister had to fight a doctor one day when he was rushing to see her off with the usual malaria diagnosis.

Idan an yi magana sai suce wai me kansila yake ake bashi kudi da yawa or the government spends money on useless things etc. All sorts of excuses.
Bottomline,they are being selfish and unsympathetic.
I pray God to not test us with any ailment that will have to see us getting unprofessional medical care. If he does,may He give us the wealth to afford professional care.

[ummutameem]

pathetic! thats all i can say, the stories are endless, we have all been victims of nigerian doctors one way or d other! Allah ya sake karemu, Ameen.