JOHESU STRIKE: Quacks Take Over Govt Hospitals As Lagos State Govt Gets 48 Hours Ultimatum!
Sanity is set to return to Lagos State secondary and tertiary health institutions as LAGOS JOHESU, under the guidance of the National body issues a 24-hour ultimatum to the Lagos State Government.
You may recall that a few days ago, the Lagos State Government, through Ministry of Health and Medical Directors of State and Tertiary institutions commenced a mass recruitment of unqualified personnel and quacks to man the various emergency units.
Underground investigation by Nurses on Air revealed that from Saturday May 19th 2017, medical directors of Lagos State owned Government hospitals began interview and negotiation with quacks for a sum to be paid to the unqualified personnels who were to be engaged as locum staff to carry out medical services in various government hospitals in Lagos State.
Nurses on Air was there live as the negotiations by representatives
In less than 48 hours after the negotiation, yours truly secured photos and video evidences of quacks resuming and taking over the premises of secondary and tertiary health institutions.
Among those seen posing as qualified health personnel were Community Health Extension Workers (CHEW) and unidentified quacks from private hospitals in Lagos state. (See pictures below).
It is a known fact that community health workers are trained to work within the Primary Health Care settings and are not authorised by any international or local law to legally practice in secondary and tertiary health institutions.
This is the first time in the history of global health systems that such unimaginable act will be carried out by any government, a possible confirmation of the dilapidated state of Nigeria’s health sector with the fear of a total collapse, if there is no urgent intervention from the presidency.
Nigeria currently ranks 187th out of 190 countries in the WHO global rating of health systems, an abysmal performance and heartbreaking reality, a direct indictment on the Nigerian government and those at the helms of affairs of the Nigeria health sector.
According to health experts and analysts, the ongoing crisis tearing apart Nigerian healthcare system, has its origin rooted in the abolishment of the former law which entrusted the administration and management of Nigeria’s healthcare system only into the hands of qualified health administrators.
The stage is now set for either peace or total war as LAGOS JOHESU has threatened to completely withdraw the services of its members if the ugly situation is not reversed.
As politicians gear up for the 2019 elections, there is a palpable feeling that the current scare of Ebola outbreak in Africa, the inability of the national assembly to resolve the ongoing crisis in the health sector, the increasing call for the sack of the current health minister Prof. Isaac Adewole as well as the government’s perceived insensitivity to the plight of Nigerians, may all combine to turn the tables against the incumbent government.
With the harsh realities of the nationwide strike biting harder than ever, Nigerians have called on the presidency to urgently intervene and resolve the ongoing crisis before it consumes and destroy the country’s health sector, with Nigerians and the APC government becoming the major casualties.
