 Fe hwnnw y Garllen States has threaten to replace striking resident doctors with ad-hoc staff. Recall that the National Association of Resident Doctors embarked on a five-day warning strike on Wednesday over OMET demand. The resident doctors, among other things, are demanding an increment in the consolidated medical salary structure to the tune of 200 percent of the current gross salary of doctors. According to Ngig 1800 the striking resident doctors were crying wolf. felly yn rhoi pam yn yflyblo fel Y Llywodraeth i'r aelodau meddwl, ac rydyn ni os ystod o'i glir y dyma sydd yn y dyfodol sydd eisiau digwydd yr ystyried ar y cyfrifiddoriaeth yrddangosodd aregwadol ysgol dr Samol O'u Caryn dieu hefyd yn ysgolol yr rhai panes dechrau yng Nghymru ac mae'r Ysgol Ysgol alláu, ac mae'r Gweithio Fathfforddau pan ôl yn ystafell, ond mae'r Gweithio Fathfforddau yn ystafell, yn farcheb, ond yr Y Llywyddanc y Ddaeth wedi'i llwyffach gyda'r panoddiol ac mae yna'n unrhyw o hyd i chi'n ddodd yn digwydd. Ginwch chi'n bywír ffordd hynny? Rhaid, mae'n gweithio ffiannifos golygu, dylwn i'r gweithio ar gyfer allan, a byddwch chi'n ddodd i ddweud yn ddau'r trof. I think it's something for us, what we're about, when our association is trying to push for the agreements that the government itself is going to, and just only asking for the government to appeal the agreement that he himself, or herself, went into the question of that. So I think a lot of people, when people are demanding for you to be accountable, and they think it's nice to see, you know, trust me, that you're going to be pleased to stop, you know, with a hard rock star, but I think that's why I'm fortunate. I'm being made to understand that for a whole year resident doctors in states like Abia, Emo, Ondo and Akiti are still being old salaries. Let alone meeting the demand or having conversations. I hear that conversations have been had on your behalf by the NMA. How well is that going? OK, so that's another issue. Let the association as these are all peculiar issues that affect all doctors. I think the one that benefits is, at only 15, has to do with the common salary structure, which of course is not about you. The other issue that ARD is talking about is this one that we greatly concern a member. We've just talked about some of a member who have not speak for more than 24 months. We have resident doctors in India. They are talking about brain drain, talking about people living in the country. We still have some states. Now, there's an issue of medical respect, which is an hack. Actually, it's not a medical respect, but it's very hard. Which is supposed to be the resident doctor and a token. This is legal. The things that are supposed to be cut out for their exams, transport, accommodation and all of this, all of those. But even 2023, the government is yet to pay for that. I don't have to think that the absolutely important issue for is that they want a replacement, one-on-one replacement of doctors that have left the system. Doctors are living. Yes, you can't stop them from living. People are different living. But let's have a system. Let's move to a catholic and breast disease. You have to wait for several months to a year before the workforce is in place. This has, of course, led to a lot of on-out situations among those that have left the air. What not any other is asking for is that, please, can you work on this system, doctor? You have an easy way of replacing any doctor that leaves the system. I don't think that is too much to ask. So those are, that's why, you know, also asking for paxotra development of the X-sector. I believe asking for the better funding of the X-sector so that we are better able to provide good services to the population of the country. I don't think this is too hard. It's too much to ask for any replacement. You made mention of something that everybody has been talking about lately. The brain drain in the medical sector, which has led to a lot of doctors fleeing the country. And, of course, you know about the motion that was pushed on the floor of the National Assembly about increasing the number of years that doctors study and how long they would have to stay before they decide that they can leave the country. But you've also talked about the fact that those who have left have not been replaced. And I'm curious to understand the process, because I'm not a doctor. I don't walk in a hospital. I do not understand the bureaucracies of replacing one doctor after another has left. Do you think it's the process that's the problem or is it that government is refusing to re-recruit new doctors? Because I understand that more and more people are being churned out of medical school and are looking for where to be placed. All right. It's shocking to note that despite the health sector being, let me use the word, under-employed. Talking about the debt of doctors, if a doctor trained to enendrize, he's cracked up his mark. It certainly has some doctors who are not employed, who probably are just willing for themselves to do one hospitalization, one residency, one of the other. But you find out that the debt is not able to accommodate them despite people leaving. And this is not perfect. It's simply about the system in which this may be. Did you cut it, for example, in replacement? Did you cut it in replacement? I'm talking about a point about having to put people down for five days. The question is, why are people leaving? Why are people going to other places? If one of them stopped on it and put poor immigration, poor welfare, you understand? And if you are not at a cost of what the best doctors are, if the government is not addressing this, but to the young doctors, we definitely need to please, where they will be better treated, where they will have better welfare, where they have equipment and infrastructure, to work as well as having to want to fund them or tie them down or setting them for people to please them, make environment suitable, attend to all of the issues. And I expect you that even though they have left, they will come back if the system of selling has been attended. Let's look at this threat that the federal government is making, that they would replace resident doctors with ad hoc staff. I'm guessing that this ad hoc staff would be maybe medical personnel. I'm trying to wrap my head around that. And if the government is capable of replacing resident doctors, should they not be looking into recruiting more of these resident doctors? On the flip side, how willing are you to lose your jobs because it sounds like the federal government is serious about your replacement? I can say that for a part. If it is easy for them to get or recruit ad hoc staff, to outcome, how is it hard or tough for you to engage those that have left the system or to even employ. We are quite the doctor situation in Nigeria. It is one of the world all over the world. We are talking about the doctor thing. It is more than 10,000, and it does not talk about 45,000 people. So, rather than saying that you want to replace those who are trying to demand for better access to them, the one you want, the ad hoc you want to go and employ, why not bring them into the system? So that at the end of the day, the system is better off. These things are doable. But then the question is whether the police are willing or the parts of the government to do it. If there is a government that is power-tight, for example, we are also clamoring. What we are clamoring for is that we have a minimum of 50% budgetary allocation to help. This was an agreement that was signed in 2011 by the Abu Dhabi keraton. It has to be in Nigeria. Nigerian government has never voted up to 80%. Not to talk about the same percent. If the system is not properly funded, then of course it will not happen. We cannot get better outcomes that we desire. Let me ask you finally. May 29 is around the corner. I don't know if, from the conversations that you had, was the federal government and representatives of the Ministry of Labour. I don't know if there is any body language that shows that there is going to be a ground shifting under the Bahrain administration. May 29 is around the corner. Do you see the government elect that is about to come in looking in the direction of bettering the lots of the health sector? As you said, the health sector is nothing to write home about. How positive and optimistic are you about the incoming administration and how much attention they would pay to the health sector? Of course, I want to say that any house they wouldn't have gone on strike, the 20th strike, which is just past this. It is a government as a response we know to call them to the negotiating table to look at the things that have been raised. It is a passionate appeal to the income government, the sector of the health sector and its administration to, as a matter of urgency, improve funding to the health sector to actually take the same. Based on the Apujar Declaration recommendation. Number two, whichever is going to appoint to add the health ministry has to be people that are willing to do the work, particularly in the area of motivating the health workforce. Not just doctors now, nurses and other healthcare professionals. They need to look into their admiration, they need to look into their welfare, they need to look at loans for doctors, and they need to look for better ways to retain the workforce and not the issue of them having to want to adhere to spending the bill that all of them have before. So the government has a lot of work to do to improve the health sector. All right. Well, I want to say thank you. Dr Samuel Coorinde is the immediate past president of the Association of Resident Doctors, Lager State University Teaching Hospital. Well, we're keeping our fingers crossed and hope that some positive news will come for the NERD. Thank you so much for speaking with us. Thank you for having me. All right. Well, that's it on the show tonight. But because it's Friday, we leave you with the highlights of the show this week. I'm going to have a pleasant weekend. We'll be back on Monday to talk for development. Have a good evening. The trend, which has always led our sensors to be so controversial. The last acceptable sensors in Nigeria, which was not in any controversy, was the Nitro63 sensors. Since then, it has always been one manicudition after the other, one suspicion after the other. For instance, let me give you a good example. Nigeria is the only country in the whole world where there are more people in the bushes in the certified areas than in the coastal areas. It runs against the currency of thinking, currency of movement, migration anywhere in the whole world. How does this happen? It's not the physical thing. You only need to go and stay in baga or stay in some water. You see how many drops of people are moving into the ghost on a daily basis. Carrying passengers and dropping people off and all that. Many of them are not going back. Whereas, when you see that or when you see the sensors, the figures you will have will be totally different. So it's quite a very difficult situation, but we can surmount this problem by using technology and ensuring that everybody has NIN. Once you have NIN, you'll be captured on the system that will need to integrate the whole system in a way that it will be easier for governments, including authorities like Nigerian Police for CFCC and others, to easily access information without violating people's privacy, but access information particularly when crimes are committed. Buhari and the man, Tinugu, are two different types of people. There is something that Mr Tinugu knows about people. He understands betrayal and he knows exactly what Wike has done. And I want to tell you that even if Wike is a minister, within one year there's going to be a problem that's going to create a scandal just for him to be exited from the place. I don't know what sort of agreement he's going to have and say I must be a minister for four years. I don't know how that's going to work out. But at the end of the day, there's something that Mr Ohtu said which I found very instructive. Why must we in the Niger Delta always be the cash cow for these people? Do they really respect us for who we are or the text to exploit us for the resources that we have? Was Wike approached on account of his superior capacity and intellectual prowess? Or was he afraid because he had the money and could turn and do the daily job? Why was he made the chairman of the campaign committee of the PDP? I think we in the Niger Delta need to really come back and sit down and ask ourselves very critical questions on how our resources must be deployed at national level. I'm hoping on this security. An American was kidnapped somewhere in Africa and was brought down to Nigeria. And the American president said he won't let Americans renew our lives within 24 hours. And from all the way from America, they came to Nigeria and they rescued that person. Is that all the proper food leadership? And some people are traumatising you in your country. And you're calling a gorilla work here? A gorilla work here? And you cannot tackle it? Anyway, let's leave that because our title is equality. Let's come to economy. Let's come to economy. What were the economy indices that made Nigeria the fastest growing economy in Africa in 2015? Because the data is there, not manufactured by me, but even by our Sanjuku grow in Nigeria. All right. What were the indices there? What do we have now? I don't want to use words that will not be easily described by listeners. But rather I'm going to be basic. In 2014, 2015, what was our exchange rate? That's number one. What was the productive capacity of our industry? That's number two. When we're looking at the rate of employment, what were we having until now? What were we having until now? How much was a bag of rice then? How much is it now? I'm talking about market price indices. What do we have there? What do we have now? Are you talking about economy? What was the rate of people, professionals, learning people, living in our country then? I mean tomorrow. It is just now that we're not having a very loud jackpot in the future. Now, the continuum. What does it say? Because there is a continuum. We will not continue until that is not defined as a people, whether you go to schools, universities, the houses that we say there, whether a lot of people are now into unemployment, whether our economy is going to change, change the rate, whether our refugees are not working, whether we put the money to make our refugees work, we are not borrowing money, we are not borrowing money. So give to people, because we want to remove poverty, that is what the government said was the front. Why do we campaign?