The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on Thursday said the doctors’ union should not only be for the purpose of personal aggrandisement and asking members to go on strike.
This is as the Nigerian Medical Association said the Federal Government rejected its proposal for the establishment of a health bank as part of efforts to solve the problems bedevilling the nation’s health sector.
A statement issued by the Special Assistant on Media to the minister, Nwachukwu Obidiwe, described the reportage of the ‘incident’ as unnecessary and selective, while calling for a deeper understanding of the issue in question. “The NMA and NARD have a duty to campaign and persuade state governments to devote more funds to health care. The doctors’ union is not only for the purpose of personal aggrandisement, asking for more emoluments and perennially egging members to go on strike.”The minister said while the Federal Government had recorded remarkably steady improvement in the health-care system, Nigeria had yet to get there.
The statement said that the Ministry of Labour and Employment had a migration policy, developed with the European Union to assist skilled Nigerians to work and earn a decent living abroad. The NMA president stated that political office holders were not bothered about the decay in the health sector because they travelled abroad to treat minor ailments.
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