Health Sector Makes Me Sad —Jonathan

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan on Friday received the report of the Presidential Committee of Experts on Inter-Professional Relationship in the Public Health Sector, vowing to act on its recommendations to end “unhealthy rivalries” among healthcare professionals.

Receiving the report from the chairman of the committee and former Head of Service, Alhaji Mahmud Yayale Ahmed, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Jonathan said that the Federal Government would review the report immediately with a view to issuing a white paper on it and begin the implementation of its accepted recommendations early next year.

“I had to set up the committee because I am very sad, and I know most Nigerians feel very sad that strikes and unhealthy rivalries among professionals in the health sector have adversely affected medical services,” the president said.

Jonathan added that he was optimistic that the implementation of the committee’s accepted recommendations would help to end unhealthy rivalries and incessant strikes in the public health sector, which, he said, had created an atmosphere of uncertainty in the sector.

He added that this had left many people with fewer options for quality medical services.

Earlier, Yayale Ahmed told the president that the committee identified 50 areas of conflict after receiving memoranda and interacting with about 40 professional bodies in the public health sector and members of the public.

He said that the areas of conflict were categorised into organisational, management, leadership and team work, remuneration and motivation, career management, capacity building, professional practice, labour, legal and governance issues.

Source: 247nigerianewsupdate