Moves by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and
the National Association of Resident Doctors ( NARD ) to pressurize Nigerian government to withdraw the circular
suspending residency training programme have fell has proven aborted.
Officials at
the Federal Ministry of Health were adamant on reversing the suspension.
The
suspension of the residency training programme indirectly means the sack of about 16 000 medical
doctors, leaving behind 3000 medical
consultants and higher ranking medical personnel to cater for medical services
around the country.
The
government also lampooned the medical doctors for embarking on protest and
demonstration in Abuja, calling their actions as hypocritical.
Permanent
Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health,
Linus Awute, stated this Saturday in an interview with journalists in
Abuja.
Awute
observed that though the doctors claimed to be on strike, some were working on the field.
He blamed
the doctors for the decision by the federal government to suspend residency
training for the medical practitioners, including the directive to the
managements of public hospitals to find replacement for them.
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