The Nationwide Govt Council of the Medical and Dental Consultants Affiliation of Nigeria (MDCAN) has issued a 21-day discover of strike to related stakeholders to handle their beleaguering calls for.
MDCAN additionally acknowledged that failure to meet its calls for would imply it can not assure the continuation of providers rendered by its members who’re holders of Medical and Dental Fellowships nationwide.
This was contained in a press release made obtainable to journalists in Jos, the Plateau State capital, on the finish of MDCAN’s extraordinary digital Nationwide Govt Council (NEC) assembly, signed by its President, Prof. Aminu Mohammad, and Secretary, Prof. Daiyabu Ibrahim.
The assertion directed its members to take lawful steps, not restricted to withdrawal of providers, but additionally authorized choices the place commercials for the place of Vice Chancellor are discriminatory and disenfranchise Medical and Dental Lecturers.
It reads: “NEC resolves that any illegal and discriminatory posture towards holders of Medical and Dental Fellowship {qualifications} will not be tolerated.
“All members the place such discriminatory commercials are launched have been directed to take obligatory lawful means to revive their rights as offered for within the structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
The NEC additionally resolved that it’s unacceptable for any college in Nigeria to benchmark the necessities for the workplace of Vice Chancellor to the attainment of a PhD with out recognizing the Medical and Dental Fellowships peculiar to the medical occupation as an educational {and professional} qualification that greater than suffices wherever a PhD is required.
MDCAN additional decried the failure of the federal government to harmonize the retirement age of medical consultants to 70 years, particularly within the face of accelerating wants for each tutorial {and professional} duties of those medical and dental specialists.
In accordance with them, these people are the undergraduate and postgraduate medical and dental trainers and suppliers of specialist medical providers in tertiary well being establishments (instructing hospitals, federal medical facilities and specialty hospitals) at state and federal ranges.
MDCAN additionally urged the federal authorities to, as a matter of urgency, full the method of harmonizing the fee of the emoluments of Medical Medical Lecturers with the Consolidated Medical Wage Construction (CONMESS) in an effort to appropriate the numerous shortfalls of their emoluments, entry degree, and pension.
The NEC additionally recommended the steps taken to this point by members to handle the discriminatory commercials, which have the only intention of disenfranchising medical lecturers from contributing their quota to college administration and administration on the highest degree.
