After
all, who doesn't know that the best treatment for a headache is to cut off the
said head, even if the headache is only pointing to a more sinister
problem?
Why
should they ask for better equipment to work with? Why do they need CT and MRI
machines to diagnose when we have our ancient African technology of seeing a
person miles away in the palms of our hands?
Why
should they ask for grants for researches? Shouldnt their jumbo pays be enough
to fund such studies? Why havent they found a cure for this viral haemorrhagic
fever? Why should they fault you for begging the Americans to give us ZMapp?
What are big brothers for? Is it not to clean up their younger ones every time
they pee in their
pants?
Why
shouldn't you blame them for the ebola outbreak in the country? Isn't manning
the borders supposed to be part of their work?
Why
should they say they want to be the only ones to be tagged a sConsultants? Is
it not a mere sobriquet every Tom, Dick, and Harry can choose to be called by?
Havent people started calling me Professor as far back as my primary school
days?
Why
do they oppose relativity in the health sector? Arent men born equal? Do they
think you have forgotten that the quest for relativism caused the biblical fall
of man? Why should they want to head the medical team because they claim they
are better intellectually equipped? Isnt that egotistical?
Why
should they tell you to extend universal health coverage to all citizens? Dont
they know that the citizens are wealthy enough to fund their medical expenses?
Why are they even fighting for the masses? Do they know how many of the
intended recipients of the policy jumped for joy when you called for the heads
of their supposed activists?
Why
didnt they take you by your word when you signed the said agreement with them
earlier in the year? Why do they insist on implementation? Dont they know ASUU
went on strike for a different reason last year, other than non-implementation
of an agreement signed in 2009? Do they think your pacts are worthless?
Why
should they tell you not to remind them of their sacred Hippocratic Oath and
not go on strike? Dont they know you also took an oath when you came into
office? Shouldnt they know you swore to protect the interest of the ordinary
citizen and that is just what you are doing?
Why
should they clamour for increased pay? Don't they know that this country isnt
financially buoyant enough to meet their demands like in the other countries?
Who told them our political office holders still manage to get the equivalent
of (or more than) what their equals in those other countries earn?
The
answer to the questions is obviously what you have done. Fire the resident
doctors. But dont stop at that. Fire the consultants, the medical officers and
the house officers too. Order state executives to sack those in their employ.
You can even fire all medical students. They could have been brainwashed by
their seniors. They have drained enough from the pockets of their parents. The
government is also wasting scarce funds because they spend ages in medical
school, saying they dont want to be half-baked. Like we told them we need
bread! Besides their seniors are always telling them they dont know anything.
Take
a nip in the bud before it is too late. Lets go back to those times when there
were no doctors.
By
Tobi Bamigbade
Department
of Medicine,
Obafemi
Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC),
Ile-Ife
, Nigeria.
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