Doctors Have Ruined The Health Sector-G.C. Okara

The President, Association of Medical Laboratory Scientist, Dr. G.C. Okara has lamented the low rating of the Nigerian health sector which ranked 51 among 53 countries in health index rating as attributable to the mismanagement of the Nigerian health institutions by medical doctors who has failed to copy the developed countries where health institutions are managed by qualified and certified health administrators.
The assertion was made in a recent interview he granted the leadership newspaper.  This situation would continue to become worse except the ministry of health allow other health professionals play their statutory roles as enshrined in government laws and statutes especially, the medical laboratory services.

Medical Laboratory Science Council Act Clocks Nine
The medical laboratory law in Nigeria popularly referred to Act 11 of 2003 has clocked 9 years.  The law, which was promulgated by the National Assembly and signed by former President, Olusegun Obasanjo chartered the medical laboratory science profession in Nigeria making it a high level manpower regulator.
The law also defines what medical laboratory science is and who is qualified to practice medical laboratory science.

UniAbuja Teaching Hospital Pathologists Intimidates Medical Laboratory Scientists
The excessive illegal extremism by pathologists in Nigeria who sees the medical laboratory scientists as a subject of ridicule has reached its crescendo in the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Nigeria where a medical laboratory scientist was queried for refusing to allow a pathologist endorse the test he performed.
How can someone who had no input in the generation of laboratory testing become the authority to endorse it ? According to Professor Emeribe, the amounts to professional and scientific fraud.

Doctors Move Against Medical Laboratory Services In FMC Abakaliki
The hitherto quite atmosphere in the laboratory departments of the Federal Medical Center, Abakaliki may soon give way to trouble and chaos as the management of the hospital has dismantled the laboratory services department formerly managed by medical laboratory scientists and replacing the headship with pathologists.
This is the cause of  the instability in the health sector where medical doctors want to head other departments where other professionals hold sway.
Reacting to the development, a call has gone to the medical laboratory scientists there to unite and fight for their professional rights.

Quacks Run Medical Laboratory Services In Kogi State
It was recently revealed that science graduates and non-medical laboratory scientists are employed in the Kogi State government owned medical laboratories to run medical laboratory tests.  This is quackery of the highest order.
Meanwhile, the medical laboratory scientists there have been urged not to fold their hands watching.  They are to organize themselves in a manner as to resist such act and defend the sanctity of their profession.  According to Dr. G.C. Okara, this is an ethical responsibility.