AMLSN urges NMA to put aside ego-tripping and embrace laudable objectives

The Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN) has urged the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to put aside ego-tripping and embrace laudable objectives. 

 

AMLSN president, Dr. Godswill Okara, said this while speaking to newsmen on what he described ass NMA's grandstanding concerning the Central Bank of Nigeria's recent publication.

"The NMA should be advised to subject herself to the rule of law, put ego-tripping aside and embrace laudable objectives that will improve the health sector of our country," Okara said.

Dr. Kayode Obembe, President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) had warned the Central Bank of Nigeria to withdraw its purported circular on the inclusion of Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria’s, MLSCN, Registration and Product Certification as part of criteria for importation of in-vitro diagnostics, IVDs into Nigeria.

Okara said NMA's dog-in-the-manger attitude will be counterproductive for the nation's health sector.

"The dog-in-the-manger attitude will not help the health sector; neither will the first-born mentality often being displayed by the NMA and her members. Modern healthcare practice is multidisciplinary and multi-professional in dimension and scope.

"The WHO concept of health service provision puts the patient in the centre of a circle formed by healthcare professionals. The old concept of the patient belonging to the doctor is now outdated and relates only to the medieval era. The quest to demand for what it wants and also turn around to dictate what others should be given is to say the least reprehensible and nihilistic."

He also told the association it does not have the exclusive preserve to strike action.

"AMLSN commends the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Hon. Minister of Health and above all, Mr. President, Dr. Goodluck Ebelle Jonathan for their foresight and patriotic resolve to support the Medical laboratory Science Council of Nigeria to perform this bounding duty of sanitizing the Nigerian health laboratory sector to stem the tide of wrong diagnosis," Okara said.