The Governor made the appeal on Thursday on the fourth day of the current strike action by doctors across the country to press home their demands for improved conditions in public health institutions.
He spoke at the second convocation of the Lagos State College of Health Technology in the Yaba area of Lagos, saying carnages from industrial actions by doctors negate their professional calling.
Fashola argued that those that invented strikes in the Nigeria health sector did it for the sake of their patients not themselves, pricking the conscience of the present crop of doctors to emulate their past leaders.
"Medical workers, from the lowest to the highest in the chain of command and
the team, you are like gods on earth.
Only sick people know your importance and I have been ill before."
Fashola observed that workers in other sub-sectors of the nation's economy are not satisfied with their remuneration, saying they are not holding governments by the jugular because they do not want the Nigerian state to fail.
Harping on the importance of the new graduands in the state's healthcare system, the Governor said "what delights me most is that we are producing graduates in areas where the Lagos economy has a compelling need, the primary healthcare, the primary healthcare development.
"We are producing graduates who will help us achieve our objectives. So therefore in order to show that we are ready to work our talk I have indicated and now say publicly that all of the graduating students today will be immediately employed by our government.
"We will work out the process. We will go to the House of Assembly if it is necessary to raise supplementary budget to fund this. But I make this commitment to you as a matter of honour," Fashola said.
Meanwhile, the House of Representatives on Thursday mandated its Committee on Health to engage the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and Federal Ministry of Health in dialogue with a view to resolving the lingering crisis in the health sector.
The committee is to report back to the House within one week.
While appealing to NMA and its members to call off the strike they began on Tuesday, the lawmakers also urged the Federal Government "to do everything possible as a matter of utmost urgency to have this crisis abated in the interest of the citizens of this country".
The resolution by the House followed a motion by Samson Osagie on "urgent need to resolve the crisis in the health sector".
THE Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Asaba, chapter, also described the strike by the Medical and Dental Consultants' Association of Nigeria and Nigeria Medical Association (MDCAN/NMA) as an "irrational decision, ego-bloating and prejudice".
JOHESU also threatened to drag MDCAN/NMA to court over the on-going strike in government hospitals, chiding the medical doctors for faulting government decision to obey court order.
It stressed that no court has voided the judgment of the National Industrial Court (NIC) which the government is acting upon.
Tony Asiodu, Chairman of JOHESU, FMC, Asaba, in a statement also called on Nigerians to condemn the doctors' strike action.
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