The President, Goodluck Jonathan,
has ordered the sack of all resident doctors in Nigerian hospitals, according
to an Exclusive report carried by PREMIUM TIMES.
The sack was contained in a
directive by Mr. Jonathan 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 president’s
directive was given following an appraisal of the challenges 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,” Awute said.
He said the Minister of Health,
Onyebuchi Chukwu, has also directed that “letters of termination of residency
training” be issued to all affected resident doctors in hospitals immediately.
The memo asked the management of all
public hospitals to take necessary measures to restore full medical services in
the hospitals, even without the resident doctors.
In what appears to show the reason for
government’s action, the permanent secretary said the hospital could employ
part time doctors who must be of ‘good behaviour.’
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