Babatunde Raji Fashola Begs Lagos State Doctors Not To Join Nationwide Strike

[Shola Sholaz]

The Lagos State Government on the 3rd of January, Friday appealed to the medical practitioners in its public health sector not to join their counterparts in other parts of Nigeria on their proposed nationwide strike.
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This is contained in a statement issued in Lagos State by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Lateef Ibirogba.
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He appealed to the doctors to consider the interests of the people of Lagos and their medical ethics and shun the proposed strike by the National Medical Association (NMA).
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Ibirogba said that any industrial action by doctors would bring untold hardship to the people and could result in avoidable death of patients.
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He said that the nature of the work of doctors did not permit them to embark on industrial action without recourse to its implication on the society.
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"Workers in the health sector are statutorily classified as offering essential services and there are laid down process and procedures before embarking on such action," he said.
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Ibirogba said that strikes had in the past caused untold suffering, injury and death to innocent patients, who were caught in such strikes.
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He warned that the state government would not hesitate to apply the law on erring officers to protect the interest of innocent citizens.
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He said that whatever disagreement NMA had against the Federal Government should not be extended to Lagos State Government.
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"The issues the national body of NMA has with Federal Government should be ironed out with the Federal Government without allowing it to affect Lagosians.
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"This is contrary to Sections 118, 209 and 210 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State.
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"It provides that it is an offence to maliciously break a contract of service knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequence of doing so will endanger human life or seriously endanger public health," he said.
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The commissioner said that the state government would not hesitate to enforce the "a no-work no- pay'' policy against doctors that refused to report at their duty posts as at when scheduled.

[femifemzy3]

He is begging them now by the time he decides to take the action he took the last time ..hehehe

[Nifemi Donald]

If they do join that won't be funny at all. It must not happen that way else there might be trouble.