Sack of doctors: Fashola urged not to succumb to intimidation

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A renowned hospital administrator, Chief Doja Adewolu, has urged Lagos State governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, not to allow the sacked doctors to intimidate him to yield to their demands.  Adewolu, who is the Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Institute of Health Services Administrators of Nigeria, praised Fashola for sacking the doctors who, he insisted, had consistently embarked on strikes against the ethics of their profession.

Adewolu, also a former Chairman of Board of Psychiatric Hospitals in Nigeria, said "the decision to sack the doctors was fair, just and right as at present, 85 percent of budget allocation to the health sector goes into the payment of salaries and allowances of health workers alone and yet the doctors want more".

To him, health care delivery is a "team work" and therefore, the doctors should not see themselves as special people in the health sector and should therefore be treated specially.

Daily Trust