{"id":50556,"date":"2016-06-22T14:27:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=50556"},"modified":"2016-06-22T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T13:27:12","slug":"fg-fires-striking-resident-doctors-orders-health-institutions-fill-vacancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/fg-fires-striking-resident-doctors-orders-health-institutions-fill-vacancies\/","title":{"rendered":"FG\u00a0 Fires\u00a0 Striking Resident Doctors, Orders Health Institutions to Fill Vacancies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466535899015_15142\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466535899015_15167\">F<\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466535899015_15167\">ederal Government has ordered the sack of striking Residents Doctors\u00a0 for abandoning their duty posts and refusing to report to work. A statement from the Ministry of Health said the Minister, Professor Isaac Adewole, ordered Chief Medical Directors (CMDs) and Medical Directors (MDs) of federal health institutions to fill vacancied created the resident doctors.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466535899015_15169\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466535899015_15171\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466535899015_15172\">\u201cIt has come to the notice of the Management of the Ministry that some Resident Doctors in your establishment have voluntarily withdrawn from the Residency Training Program by refusing to report for training without authorization. Public Service Rule, PSR 030402 (e) is relevant. This is in spite of the ongoing negotiations on their demands put forward by the representatives of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) under the auspices of the Nigerian Medical Association&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466535899015_15173\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466535899015_15174\">&#8220;In view of this development, you are hereby directed to replace all the Doctors that have withdrawn their services, with others from the pool of applicants for the training programs in the various disciplines in order not to create ominous gap in training with attendant disruption of health care delivery in your facility.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466535899015_15175\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466535899015_15176\">&#8220;Meanwhile, the Ministry is working with the panel on the review of the Residency Training Program in Nigeria, led by Professor Wole Atoyebi, the Registrar of the National Postgraduate Medical College, to fast-track the development of a comprehensive blueprint for postgraduate training of doctors in the country.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466535899015_15177\">&#8220;Please, ensure immediate compliance&#8217;, a circular issued by the ministry said,<\/span><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Government has ordered the sack of striking Residents Doctors\u00a0 for abandoning their duty posts and refusing to report to work. 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