Rescind the Suspension of Residency Training Programme of Doctors Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) calls on President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan,GCFR, to forthwith rescind the directive to suspend Residency Training Programme of Doctors indefinitely in Nigeria. CNPP is outraged that while Nigerians were waiting for the peaceful resolution of the Nigeria Medical Associations (NMA) strike; the Federal Ministry of Health on the orders of President Jonathan for inexplicable reasons opted to use the sledgehammer to dislocate public health in Nigeria. We are calling on the Jonathan administration to rescind this obnoxious move; first in view of the fact that Resident Doctors are the engine room and the building block of public health globally. Secondly, we could have termed the demands of NMA off-point, but when one considers the pervasive and endemic corruption going on under President Jonathans watch, we are disarmed. Thirdly, we are at a loss of what appraising purpose the suspension of the crucial training of Resident Doctors and the termination of Resident Training Appointment will achieve? Mr President must be reminded that lots of avoidable lives had been lost since the strike, as majority of Nigerians lack the means to travel abroad for medical treatment. Accordingly, he should place the collective interest of Nigerians above pedestrian interest of those who champion anti-peoples programmes. Chief Will Ezugwu National Secretary CNPP
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 21:02:10 +0000