The Nation Newspaper

Tag: Nigerian Medical Association (NMA)

  • Uyo tragedy: Rotary donates blood to victims

    Uyo tragedy: Rotary donates blood to victims

    The Assistant Governor, Rotary International District 9140, Mr Akan Emah, on Wednesday said his members had donated blood to victims of last Saturday’s church building collapse in Uyo.

    Emah told journalists in Uyo that the donation was in line with the Rotarians’ commitment to their motto, “Service Above Self”.

    He appealed to all well-meaning individuals in the state and beyond to donate blood, as the victims were still in need of blood for quick recovery.

     

    He said that the District Governor, Akabom Enebong, and the entire Rotarians sympathised with Gov. Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom on the unfortunate incident.

    According to him, Rotarians also commiserate with families that lost their loved ones in the Reigners Bible Church building collapse.

    The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA),  through its State Chairman, Dr Aniekeme Uwah, had appealed to people to donate blood for the injured who were recuperating in different hospitals across the state.

    Members of the Akwa Ibom House of Assembly had donated N3 million to the state government to assist in the medical bills of in the incident.

    Scores lost their lives when the Reigners Bible Church building collapsed on Saturday while the founder, Apostle Akan Weeks, was to be consecrated a bishop.

  • FG rescinds decision to sack striking Doctors 

    FG rescinds decision to sack striking Doctors 

    The Federal government has agreed to disregard the circular terminating the appointments of striking resident doctors.

    The Minister of Health, Prof Folorunsho Adewole made the disclosure Wednesday at a mediatory meeting initiated by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara on Tuesday night.

    Resolutions were reached at the mediatory meeting attended by Federal Government delegation and leaders of Resident Doctors.

    The meeting had in attendance Minister of Health Prof Isaac Adebowale, Minister of Labour represented by the Permanent Secretary, Salaries and Wages Commission, Chairman of Committee of Chief Medical Directors of Federal Tertiary Health Institutions,  Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Association of Consultants and Leaders of Resident Doctors Association.

    The meeting lasted for five hours resolved and that:

    “Ministry of Health to come up with list of those entitle to skipping and the amount and when they will pay them in one week. Forty two (42) institutions that have not been implementing skipping should be asked to commence implementation immediately.

    “Committee of CMDs to meet in one week and implement skipping by June and any CMD that is unable to pay should appear at the next meeting on July 14. The judgment of the Industrial Court must be executed.

    “That by First week of July guidelines on Residency Training will be made available.

    “Entry point for House Officers should be from Commess 9 step 4. Or 1 step 1. It should be implemented immediately by the Chief Medical Directors.

    “They should also start implementing pensions immediately

    “Those unfairly sacked. Resident Doctors Association to make available records of all those sacked unfairly to the ministry of Health. Minister of Health should issue circular to CMDs to review the issue of those sacked unfairly without recourse to the earlier circular detailing the template to be followed. Circular to be sent out on Wednesday June 22nd 2016 by the Minister to all health institutions and Federal Medical Centres running the Residency programme.

    “FMC Owerri’s case. Issue of FMC Owerri be revisited. Meeting appealed to Minister to take a second look at it since doctors did not declare strike abinitio

    “IPPIS will be implemented immediately

    “Doctors should be migrated to the platform with immediate effect. Speaker to meet with Minister of Finance on the issue of IPPIS for all doctors.

    “Speaker should appeal to state Governors to pay Resident Doctors.

    “Minister of Health said: “We will do everything humanly possible to implement all the decisions arrived at in this meeting including the fact the circular sacking Resident doctors be ignored by all the parties concerned.”

    “Resident doctors leaders at the meeting agreed to appeal to their members to suspend the strike until the next meeting of July 14, 2016.”

    Meeting to reconvene in three weeks and review progress made on implementation of agreements reached in the meeting on July 14 2016.

  • Fuel subsidy: Group urges FG to ignore Wabba faction

    Fuel subsidy: Group urges FG to ignore Wabba faction

    A political pressure group, Grassroots Mobilizers for Buhari (GMB) has urged the federal government to ignore the Ayuba Wabba faction of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and never to engage them in any form of dialogue.

    A statement released by the South-South Media Director of the group, Dr Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe said Nigerians have resolved to put the issue of fuel subsidy behind them as a major step towards the nation’s socioeconomic remodelling.

    He further asserted that Ayuba and his corrupt comrades are trying to intimidate the federal government so as to be settled behind closed doors, adding that the rush for strike action when the government was making genuine and frantic efforts to work out additional palliative to cushion the effects of the fuel price increase is suspicious, unreasonable and ill-motivated.

    GMB is also alleging that Comrade Ayuba and his co-travellers are being sponsored by the opposition to discredit the APC national government, which makes their so-called struggle a show of shame.

    Dr Oghenesivbe asserted that a situation where key affiliate groups of NLC opted out of the strike including the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) goes to show that Ayuba and his group of economic saboteurs are serving their stomachs and not the Nigerian workers.

    The group commended the anti corruption war of the federal government and appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that the NLC commences the immediate repayment of the N2 billion Naira loan granted to it some years ago; and to investigate any fraud associated with the disbursement and utilization of the loan.

    We wish to state without fear or favour that Comrade Ayuba Wabba and his group are enemies of national progress for planning to crumble the nation’s economy at a time our country is going through trying times occasioned by low oil prices and 16 years of misrule by PDP, the statement added.

  • Ekiti Speaker condoles with NMA over death of colleagues

    Ekiti Speaker condoles with NMA over death of colleagues

    The Speaker, Ekiti State House of Assembly, Mr Kola Oluwawole, on Monday condoled with the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Ado-Ekiti branch, over the death of six of its members in an auto-crash.

     

    Oluwawole also condoled with the people and government of Ekiti in a statement issued by his Media Aide, Stephen Gbadamosi, in Ado-Ekiti.

     

    He described the death of the six medical doctors as a grievous moment, not only for EKiti, but the entire nation and the health sector in particular.

     

    Oluwawole, according to the statement, said members of the state Assembly received the news with shock.

     

    “When we received the sad news from one of our members, Dr Samuel Omotoso, who is also a professional colleague of the deceased, we were shocked.

     

    “The deceased were in active service to their fatherland, when death took them in their prime.

     

    “They were going to the 56th NMA Annual General conference and delegates’ meeting in Sokoto, which would have impacted positively on the nation’s health sector,” the statement reads.

     

    He commiserated with the people of Nigeria, Ekiti State as well as members of the medical profession over the monumental loss.

     

    He said, “May the good Lord uphold the medical family and the immediate families of the deceased. ”

     

    NAN reports that Ekiti state government has declared a three-day of mourning in honour of the dead medical doctors, while all flags should be flown at half mast.

     

    The six medical practitioners and their driver died when the car they were traveling in was involved in an accident few kilometers to Kaduna on Sunday.