The Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria
(MDCAN) has threatened legal action against the Federal Government if it
fails to release the report of the Presidential Committee of Experts.
In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP yesterday in Abuja by its
president, Dr Steve Oluwole, and addressed to President Goodluck
Jonathan, the association, through its Principal Solicitor and Counsel
Jiti Ogunye (Esq.), informed the president that, despite his
inauguration of the committee which carried out its assignment within 15
months and submitted its report to him, he (the president) has refused
to officially publish the report or implement it’s recommendations.
The association pointed out that “continued delay, failure or refusal
by the President to release, implement and make his views and decisions
known” could amount to a “dereliction of public duty, which may be cured
by an Order of Mandamus duly applied for and appropriately issued by a
court of competent jurisdiction”.
Also, the association stated that failure of the President to publish
and implement the report “would not only be a disservice to the
crisis-ridden health sector in particular, but Nigeria in general, if
the said report and the views and decisions of government thereon were
discarded or jettisoned at the tail -end of the exercise initiated by
Mr. President himself.”
It urged the
government to act on the report, as only action could end the perennial
crisis of needless competition plaguing the sector.
“We believe that the release of this report, views and decisions of
the Federal Government of Nigeria thereon may help cure the erroneous
but pervasive assumptions of non-existing rights being claimed by
non-medical health workers in the sector, which have been the driving
force of their virulent and poisonous agitations against the lead roles
being played in the public health sector (and health sector in general)
in Nigeria by medical doctors,” the statement concluded.
Winifred Ogbebo
Leadership
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