THE SUSPENSION OF DOCTORS RESIDENCY PROGRAMME IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS.
President Goodluck Jonathan has suspended the residency programme in all federal hospitals in the country. The residency programme trains medical doctors to become specialist and is one of the contentious issues as other health care professional are clamouring for a recognition and institution of a similar programme for them to enable them to be recognised as specialist in the hospitals. This is one of the issues that JOHESU got the federal government to agree to which led to the over one month doctors reprissal strike. By this action Jonathan is saying that health care officials should foot the bill of their training themselves. Another arguement for Jonathan would be the small number of qualified specialists despite the juicy liberties and allowances that accrues to residents while training. there are few specialists in certain areas of medicine. The goverment has probably taken this action in a move toward full privatisation of the health sector as premature it might appear. Ebola virus was in our back yard and no one thought it wise to study it enough to develop vaccines for eventual epidemics as we have at hand. yet we have centres for disease control under the health ministry with staffs drawing mega salaries for nothing but distributing mosquito nets. Jonathan must however take more serious steps and see that his government is proactive and not consistently reactive.
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