HEALTH

Nigerian doctors are the best in the world—TB Joshua

&NewLine;<p>As the crises of salary payment deepen&comma; resulting to the  Association of Resident Doctors &lpar;ARD&rpar;&comma; Abuja chapter embarking on an industrial action&comma; Prophet TB Joshua has given excellent mark in professionalism to Nigerian doctors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A statement made available&NewLine;to OpenLife quoted the Prophet as saying&nbsp&semi;&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Take it or leave it&comma; &nbsp&semi;Nigerian medical doctors and nurses are one of&NewLine;the best in the world&period; I am not talking only about their experience&semi; I am&NewLine;talking as a minister of God&period; Government&comma; take care of them&period; Those who have&NewLine;left &&num;8212&semi; let us see what we can do to bring them back&period; Those who are planning to&NewLine;leave &&num;8212&semi; let us encourage them with incentives so that they can stay&period; I see the&NewLine;future of our medical practitioners as going to be the best in the world&period; I am&NewLine;not talking about the medicine they use or the facilities at their disposal&semi; I&NewLine;am talking about their heart of care&period; Without the heart&comma; nothing can work at&NewLine;its best&period; The heart treats best&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; the Abuja doctors &comma; announced their decision about an hour after the third case of&NewLine;Covid19 was confirmed in Nigeria&&num;8217&semi;s commercial capital&comma; Lagos&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The doctors said&NewLine;they deliberated extensively on the health threat posed by the coronavirus&NewLine;scare&comma; their work conditions&comma; and patient care before arriving at the&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;difficult decision&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In a statement&NewLine;signed by its president&comma; Roland Aigbovo&comma; the association said the mass action&NewLine;followed the failure of the FCT administration to pay them their basic salaries&NewLine;for more than two months&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Mr Aigbovo said&NewLine;their members have been thrown into financial distress due to the nonpayment of&NewLine;their salaries and despite repeated warnings and ultimatum&comma; nothing has been&NewLine;done by authorities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He said there has&NewLine;been salary irregularities and shortfalls since the migration to the Integrated&NewLine;Personnel and Payroll Information System by the FCTA&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The &nbsp&semi;union leader said other health workers who are&NewLine;also affected by the salary shortfalls will join the mass action within 48&NewLine;hours if their demands &&num;8220&semi;which are the same with ours are not met&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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