23/11/2011

The chairman,
Presidential Committee on a Harmonious work Relationship Amongst Health Workers and Amongst Professional Groups in the Health Sector through
Secretary to Committee/DHR
FMOH,
Abuja

Sir,
Re: submission of report of Presidential Committee on a Harmonious work Relationship Amongst Health Workers and Amongst Professional Groups in the Health Sector.

On behalf of Nigerian Medical association, I wish to express our great disappointment in the leadership of your Committee for the obvious determination to plunge this nation’s health sector into total darkness by continuing with the premeditated, skewed, malicious and ill-informed draft/report which the NMA earlier rejected.

I am informed that you are billed to submit the poison ivy called report on Thursday Nov 24 2011. I got notice of this for the first time by email  at 12noon yesterday 22nd November,2011. Please be informed that you and your team will certainly be remembered on the wrong side of history for the negative consequences of that report if acted upon. It is rather unfortunate that the good intention of government in setting up the committee was hijacked by parochial interests, envy and deliberate ignorance. All the documents made available to your committee to show how medicine is practiced all over the world were jettisoned in favour of the desires of a few groups. The health of Nigerians remains our primary focus of interest and we shall do everything lawful to protect that notwithstanding the magnitude of the conspiracy clearly expressed in the draft/report.

We unequivocally called for discard of the report  in order to escape from the judgment of history. Where you fail to heed to this, please be informed that the NMA will submit its own report as well to government at a later date.

For the avoidance of doubt the NMA is fully in support of harmony in the health sector, but not at the expense of the lives of innocent Nigerians, global best practices and the integrity of the medical and dental profession. Your draft/report is aggressively seeking to destroy these virtues and promote anti-health, anti-medicine and anti-doctor policies. It is rather unfortunate that such a high powered committee  dwelt on irrelevances to assuage the ego of a few groups. We cannot reinvent the wheel here in Nigeria, and there is no Nigerian version of orthodox medicine and dentistry.

Thank you
Yours sincerely,

Thank you.
Dr omede Idris
NMA President
Dr Bala M Audu,
NMA Secretary General

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