In their separate comments, the two celebrants, Dr Oyeniyi Oyewole, a Consultant Anaesthetist and Dr Oluseyi Adeosun, a Consultant Maxilofacial surgeon both appreciated the effort of MDCAN and management of FMC Lokoja, for the honour bestowed on them in making the program a unique one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”I feel very happy because I never expected this kind of honour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”The event is very unique because they put it at the beginning of the MDCAN Annual General Meeting, and not isolated from it”, Oyewole said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oyewole advised the federal government to give health sector a top priority in Nigeria in order to reduce brain drain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”If you consider what is happening now, I am not happy at all because professionals are going out of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”I also got two different letters to come to Saudi Arabia, but I am yet to say yes or no to those letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”I want to believe in the next three to five years, I wonder if we are going to have somebody like us in the country again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”So, that is the more reason the federal government should prioritise the health sector and make the first in its priority list”, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He stressed the need for federal government to always do the needful as far as the health sector was concerned in Nigeria, saying, ”no doctor actually like strike because hospital is our second home”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the issue of retirement age, he urged the federal government to extend the retirement age of medical practitioners working in the hospital to 70 years so as to impact more knowledge on the upcoming doctors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, we are just training consultants and throwing them away; the number of Nigerians in European Countries and USA today are so many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”If our hospitals are made comfortable even after retirement, I am ready to stay and train people rather than going abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”Money is not everything though it is part of it; I am still agile and ready to impact knowledge at age 60”, Oyewole said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his part, Dr Oluseyi Adeosun, a Consultant Maxilofacial surgeon expressed his displeasure over the current trend of incessant strike associated with the health sector, saying ”it is frustrating and discouraging the medical practitioners”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adeosun noted that paralysing activities in the hospitals was not making the practice to be smooth, saying it was not so in the past when he was in university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He stressed that the incessant strike was reducing the quality of the practice of doctors in this present days and making the health system to be going down the drain in Nigeria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He, therefore advised the striking resident doctors (NARD) to go back to the negotiation table and re-negotiate with the government on their demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”There is what we called, ‘Compromise Democracy’ where both parties will make compromise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”We don’t expect government to give us all our demands, but the one Government is able to do, the NARD should accept it, and go back to work”, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He, however urged the federal government to fulfill its own promises made to NARD, saying, ”you have signed documents which should be strictly abided to and actualised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”The federal government should fulfill their promises in those documents so that the NARD can go back to work”, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n