Don’t appoint physician as health minister, union urges Tinubu

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Don’t appoint physician as health minister, union urges Tinubu
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The health union, in a statement signed by its acting National Secretary, Matthew Ajorutu, said the nation’s health sector had been progressively destroyed in the last three dispensations of leadership with regards to ministerial appointments.

The union said, “Today the health system in Nigeria, which is rated 187th out of 191 by the World Health Organisation, through the machinations of the leadership of physicians, stands no chance of redemption except the President-elect comes up with a unique model of reforms which places a premium on change agents who are not necessarily health workers, to redress the ills in the health sector as presently nurtured by physicians at the ministerial parastatals and other agencies of the Federal...

“At the height of ministerial nomination and screenings in the country, Nigerian physicians have always taken parochial positions that one of its own must be appointed at the helm of the federal Ministry of Health because according to it, this was a global practice.

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