President Goodluck Jonathan fires all resident doctors

[Treyfish]

BREAKING: Jonathan fires all resident doctors

By Ameh Comrade Godwin on August 14, 2014President Goodluck Jonathan has fired all the resident doctors in Nigerian hospitals.
This was contained in a directive by His Excellency to the Federal Ministry of Health to suspend all residency training programme for Nigerian doctors.
The directive was stated in an internal memo dated August 13 and signed by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, L.N. Awute, to federal hospitals. Awute said the sack came following an appraisal of the challenges currently facing the health sector.
?Mr. President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR has suspended the Residency Training Programme for Doctors in Nigeria indefinitely for the purposes of appraising the challenges facing the health sector?. Mr. Awute said.
DailyPost gathered that the development is not unconnected with the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in the country and insistence of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, to go on with their strike despite the national health challenge.:tiphat:http://dailypost.ng/2014/08/14/breaking-jonathan-fires-resident-doctors/

 

[Vibrant62]

Re: President Goodluck Jonathan fires all resident doctors

Trying to make some sense of this report.

Training programmes have been halted or he has fired all doctors currently on strike? Not sure how this will help the situation?

 

[Nika]

Re: President Goodluck Jonathan fires all resident doctors

this entire time - during the ebola outbreak - their medical association has been holding a strike (began before the outbreak)

this must be some tactic to break the strike is my guess