Nigeria keeps saying it doesn’t have enough doctors.
We have only about 50,000 doctors serving over 200 million people. That's 1 Doctor to over 4,000 patients.
You'd expect every doctor willing to serve to be encouraged.
Instead, one is detained after carrying out a menstrual hygiene outreach in Kaduna State.
Another 238 young doctors who returned home to practise wake up to an unexplained increase in their induction fees from ₦265,000 to over ₦415,000.
We cannot keep discouraging the very people we desperately need.
I respectfully appeal to the @KadunaMOH, @GovKaduna, @WHONigeria, @NGRSenate, @NGRPresident, and @Fmohnigeria to ensure Dr Al-Amin regains his freedom, and to the @MDCNOfficial to review this new fee.
WAEC and NECO tried an 82% hike from ₦27,500–₦30,000 to ₦50,000.
Parents, Peter Obi, Atiku and social media pushed back hard.
The government suspended it within days and promised consultations.
MDCN moved the induction fee from the communicated ₦250,000 to ₦400,000 with almost no runway.
One got reversed. One is still standing.
Still Everyone is acting like this is normal???
Is MDCN even whining us?
What do you mean you're requesting 400k+ to register foreign trained medical student.
What sort of blatant wickedness is this!
Please let's tag all the appropriate authorities.
This blant wickedness must not stand!
The funny thing is that if we don't all unite to fight it, we'll all suffer for it soon.
Because nothing will stop them from requesting that doctors start paying 100k or more to renew license.
This injustice must stop!!!
Please explain to me like I am 10 years old
Why is @MDCNOfficial charging newly inducted, foreign-trained medical doctors 415,000 naira for a provisional license?
How much do you pay your house officers per month
@FatimaKyari@MDCNOfficial@mohagirei
A sudden increase in the MDCN induction fee from ₦265,000 to ₦415,000 places an enormous financial burden on newly qualified doctors who are yet to earn an income. We respectfully appeal for a review and a return to the initially communicated fee. @nard_nigeria@MDCNOfficial
URGENT CALL FOR HELP!!!!!
This is a young medical doctor called Dr Innocent. He’s working as a house officer at the Nigerian Navy Reference Hospital in Calabar, Cross River State.
Dr Innocent and his other doctor colleagues who are also house officers have NOT been paid for 290 days.
Yes you read that right.
A whole 290 days of working as a medical doctor with ZERO pay. That’s about 10 months work with NO pay.
According to Dr Innocent,
The Ministry of Defence has refused to pay their salaries for no reason. This young medical doctors are being worked like slaves while receiving ZERO pay.
They have nobody to speak for them.
They have nobody to fight for them.
They are suffering and dying in silence.
Please if you see this tweet,
Kindly retweet, share and tag General Christopher Musa the Minister of Defence, and also please tag the Ministry of Defence,
I don’t know these doctors personally,
But we can’t watch evil and say nothing.
Please don’t let this young doctors suffer in vain, they have families who depend on them for support and survival,
It will only take you 2seconds,
Kindly retweet this post. This is the little we can do to help these doctors from the evil injustice done to them by the Ministry of Defence.
Pls share and retweet. Thank you.