MDCAN to sue Jonathan over non-release of Yayale Ahmed c’ttee report

In an open letter addressed to the former president, through its lawyer, Jiti Ogunye, Esq., MDCAN informed the former president that despite his inauguration of the committee which carried out its assignment within 15 months and submitted its report to him, he refused to officially publish the report or implement it. MDCAN warned that if […]

In an open letter addressed to the former president, through its lawyer, Jiti Ogunye, Esq., MDCAN informed the former president that despite his inauguration of the committee which carried out its assignment within 15 months and submitted its report to him, he refused to officially publish the report or implement it. MDCAN warned that if its demand is not met, it would not hesitate to institute legal action against the government, with a view to compelling it to perform the public duty of releasing the said report and officially communicating and publishing its views and decisions on it.
The association said the failure of the Jonathan administration to publish and implement the report “would not only be a disservice to the crisis-ridden health sector in particular, but also Nigeria in general.”
It opined that acting on the report would bring to an end the perennial crisis of needless competition that plagues the sector.
They argued that the report would help cure the erroneous but pervasive assumptions of non-existing rights being claimed by non-medical health workers in the sector, which the MDCAN said, is the driving force for other health worker’s 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 complaint of domination, subordination and discrimination which has now become the battle cry for the inordinate and self-aggrandizing desire of non-medical health workers to fragment and segment our public health institutions, which until now, has been operating as integrated entities, into disjointed autonomous theatres merely to feed the illusion of independent territorialities, can be resolved,” MDCAN said.