NMA FCT Cry over Persistent fuel shortage in Abuja

… Wants compulsory medical checks for doctors

By Joyce Remi-Babayeju.

Doctors under the auspices of NMA, FCT have cried out for the Federal Government’s intervention in the continued fuel shortage in Abuja.
The was contained in a Communique of the 2rd Ordinary General Meeting of the NMA FCT signed by the NMA FCT Chairman Dr. Enema Job Amodu.

The association expressed it’s displeasure over persistent and perennial shortage of petrol and other petroleum products and it’s attendant hardship on the practice of medicine both in the territory and across the country.
The doctors therefore called on both the FG and NNPC to intervene by doing something lasting about the persistent, perennial fuel shortage.

In the Communique the association said, ” This situation has severely affected the practice of medicine, and Health workers are now finding it increasingly difficult to get to their places of work, to discharge their duties including the adverse effect on the health sector.”

Also the NMA FCT Chapter further lamented the incidences of frequents deaths amongst medical doctors especially younger ones from preventable and avoidable circumstances.

To ameliorate these frequent deaths the association requested that all health workers working in both federal and FCTA health facilities within the federal capital territory should be subjected to compulsory free annual basic medical checkups as part of their New year programme as it will go a long way to picking up serious ailments early to prevent untimely deaths.
In the same light , it called for the payment of the proposed new hazard allowance to every medical doctor, health worker irrespective of their points of duties.

Every health personnel are exposed to the hazards of the profession wherever they are practicing and therefore deserve to be paid accordingly, the Communique said.