Nigerian doctors practicing in Nigeria, stop offering services for free on Social media.
Anyone who needs your services should pay consultation fee and you attend to them privately except you don’t know what you’re doing.
Don’t jump in here and be making diagnoses and treatment on public social media.
It’s not only unethical, it’s demeaning of your profession.
Have some dignity.
Have some pride.
Don’t appear cheap.
The public don’t rate you like that.
RESPECT THE MESSAGE, AND NECESSARILY THE MESSENGER
NO ONE IS INFALLIBLE
Permit me to observe all possible protocol, with due respect, all due diligence and all due recognition.
Dear Distinguished and Esteemed NARDites,
Much has been said and made about the methodology the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) adopted in pressing home this current agitation in the last two months.
Much has also been made of the character, attitude, demeanor and intentions of members of NARD—From the National Officers to the National Executive Council, from the President to the Members of NARD.
These assertions range from subtle (and obvious) intimidations, misrepresentations, miscommunications, missed communications and even outright misunderstandings and misinformation. This even includes calling into question the love for our jobs, profession, patients, constituted authority and even the nation.
Harsh and unprintable names, adjectives and pronouns have been used to describe all of us under the umbrella of NARD.
However, a few facts are unyieldingly undisputed, undiluted, uncontested and undeniable.
First, the genuineness of the agitation, the injustices therein, the need to resolve them, the ‘welfarism’ nature of them and the importance of all of it in ensuring effective patient care is clear to all.
Second, the resolve of members of NARD remains unshakable, unencumbered, unstoppable and uncompromising.
Third, the chronic nature of these demands, the acute on chronic exacerbations precipitating them and the damage it has caused for the country is crystal clear.
Fourth, the seriousness of the issues, the urgency needed in ensuring they are fixed for the long term, the courage of NARDites to ensure they are fixed is not in doubt. The debate thus far has acknowledged this.
NARD is yet to see any conversation, interaction or conciliation that has taken away the above facts from the table.
This is why this message from NARDites across Nigeria is very loud and clear.
This is why this message has resonated even outside the boundaries of NARD.
The old saying "do not throw the baby away with the bath water" crystallizes another old saying of "don’t shoot the message, shoot the messenger"
Permit me to call on all our Dear and Distinguished NARDites across the country and all the opponents and proponents of this current agitation to avoid the tactic of shooting both the message and messenger.
Even if Government does it, and it has done that quite obviously, do not descend to that level.
Doing so loses the essence of the message, opens the struggle up for ridicule and allows the argument to change to ‘these boys lack respect’
Remember fellow NARDites, these agitations aren’t a ‘ward round’. Even though some would love for it to be so. It is where some want the debate to go to. It is the only way these types of people know to engage with NARD and NARDites.
I therefore call on all of us in NARD and those outside NARD that support us in our hour of need to steer clear of the temptation to answer these negative descriptions attached to NARD and it’s genuine agitation.
Dear NARDites, person wey report case to police first no mean say e go win the case, But in this case, na we report fes and na we come dey win the case.
Victory at the end, is enough. Victory at the end, should be enough. Victory at the end, must be enough without yielding to unnecessary digressions, distractions and disillusions. This will only lead to distortions, disappointments and disasters.
STEER CLEAR OF ORAL MISGIVINGS THAT FURTHER DILUTES OUR ANAEMIA
I urge us all to stay focus, hold the line.
No go sell person market oh, sell ya own market abeg. NARD Market Dey sell very well.
No one (and nothing) is infallible…Except permitted by God Almighty.
Yours ’Militantly’,
As Always,
P-MUS of @nard_nigeria
23:11:2025
@Nigerian_Doctor ND I'll suggest you stop replying and quote reposting, they'll feel we're hurt. Silence is best.
When they talk and no one responds, they'll put themselves in their place.
I was first a Nurse, I can tell you can never take away the hatred some nurses have towards Doctors
After having assisted 9 times, I just performed my first caesarian section. The registrar particularly commended my subcuticular suture, so beautiful and demure😍😍
You fit dey jack 6 hours and your partner go tell you, babe you’re not doing enough when you move pus
Your non medical partner will be like, babe you’ve tried. Try to to be resting.
Even if you move pus, she’ll be impressed 😅
@Pat_T_Ashinze Nah so my Reg tell me say make I carry gallon go buy fuel during work day from a gas station outside the hospital🥲, when I refused she said the others before me had been doing it. Fun fact is I wasn't even mobile!.
So make my crush catch doctor for road with fuel gallon for bike