Thread by @drpenking

This is Dr Okorie Ifeanyi Venatus,an intern Doctor in UPTH. He collapsed with his forehead to the ground after a 72 hour shift as the only House Officer in the unit.

He and other intern Doctors all over Nigeria have not been paid for 3 months now (Since December 2020).

A country which treats bandits and herdsmen better than her Doctors is headed for doom.

There is no one to speak for these young, helpless, Vulnerable Doctors called House Officers . Their umbrella body NARD, which they pay dues to, keeps telling stories after stories since January. No action. Imagine working for 3 months under harsh conditions but no pay.

The Federal Government and it's affiliates selected the most helpless Doctors to torment, because they know that there will be no one to speak for them. If it were resident Doctors' or Consultants that were starved for even half a month,they would have shut down all the hospitals

The saddest fact about this is that NARD would have declared an immediate industrial action if residents Doctors were the ones involved but because it's house officers, there is sudden akinetic mutism. STOP COLLECTING THEIR DUES IF YOU CAN'T DEFEND THEIR INTERESTS.

When House Officers Salary are paid, NARD is the first to take dues from the source even before the salaries can breath. If you can't fight for the Salaries because House Officers are members of your association. At least can't you fight for it so that you can steal your dues?

A hungry Doctor is a walking time bomb waiting to explode on patients and kill them all.

NARD should learn to treat House Officers as their legal members, prioritize their affairs the way they prioritize the affairs of other senior Doctors or GIVE THEM AUTONOMY AND STOP COLLECTING THEIR DUES. IF YOU CAN'T FIGHT FOR THEM, STOP STEALING FROM THEM.

When NARD wants to go on strike, they try so hard to make House Officers join them so that the effect of the strike can be felt. They go to their lodges and keep convincing them that they are part of NARD. Why?Because Consultants can easily work with House Officers and the effect

..of NARD strike will not be felt. They know this. So they force House Officers to join the strike even imposing fines to House Officers seen working during NARD strike. But when it's time to throw their weight behind House Officers sorrows, they suddenly become paraplegic. Why?

The name of the President of NARD which house officers pay dues to every single month is Dr Okhuaihesuyi Uyilawa 08036667892
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Please greet him with an urgent message asking why he has decided to ignore his junior members who are being starved to death

The name of the secretary of NARD which House Officers pay dues to every month is Dr Jerry Isogun. 08038902861
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Please greet him with a message and ask why he has decided to ignore his junior members who are being aggressively starved to death.

Let me remind us all that when a House Officer does 72 hour shifts and makes mistakes due to overwork and burnout syndrome with background hunger and absence of salary, he is being punished with more work called "extension". Who suffers at the end? THE PATIENTS!!!

You might think this does not concern you because you are not a Doctor, but if you or any of your relatives or friends patronize any teaching hospital or FMC in Nigeria, you are in trouble. Imagine leaving your life at the mercy of a Doctor who has not been paid for 3 months.

Everyday, House Officers put their lives on the line and are most exposed to all sorts of diseases because they have the closest contact with the patients as the lowest Doctors in the food chain. The senior Doctors scribble out the Plan and they are the ones that carry it out.

The are the ones that clerk and examine the patients first. The secure intravenous access,take patient samples, prepare patient for surgery, transfuse patients,counsel patients and follow up patients closely, acting as a link between the patients and senior Doctors

House Officers have contracted and died from COVID19,Lassa Fever,HIV & AIDS,Hepatitis B&C andother diseases while discharging their duties.
This is not the cadre of Doctors you should starve for 3 months no matter the reason.Except you want to kill them and all Nigerian patients

A little while ago, a house officer in a particular teaching hospital in Nigeria was made to work for extra two months and counting without pay because he said something that his senior thought it was insultive. His collagues went on a solidarity march to beg mgt to sign him out.

What prompted the peaceful demonstration was that the House Officer in question attempted suicide due to frustration. Management lashed all the House Officers in that teaching hospital 1 month extension for that act. This is how intern Doctors are treated in Nigeria. As rags