Fashola Recalls 34 Sacked Doctors After They've Pleaded For Forgiveness

Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola yesterday explained why 34 of the 788 sacked doctors were reinstated.Fashola said the gov-ernment took the decision following the appeal made by the reinstated doctors. He, however, urged oth-ers to emulate their col-leagues by appealing for reinstatement.Stressing that the sack-ing of the doctors was not his own making, the governor said that by the virtue of his position, he lacks the power to fire or hire doctors. Fashola said only the Health Service Commis-sion (HSC) is saddled with the responsibility of de-termining the fate of the doctors.Fashola spoke at a live panel discussion on the state owned television sta-tion (LTV8) to commemo-rate his 5th anniversary in office and Democracy Day.
The discussion pro-gramme had among the panelists the Deputy Man-aging Director of the SUN Newspapers, Mr. Femi Ad-esina; Editor of THISDAY Newspaper, Mr. Simon Kolawole; renowned Talk Show presenter Agatha Amata and a seasoned broadcaster, Aderoju Ade-poju.Reaffirming his inabil-ity to recall the sacked doctors, Fashola said only the HMC has the power to do so, noting that he has made efforts to ensure a fi-nal resolution to the crisis through the recall of the 34 doctors.
Fashola said: “I can’t reverse the sack, it is not in my powers to do so, I won’t be able to do so, just as I cannot effect their pro-motion, it is the HMC that will promote them and I won’t be here after three years, so it’s not about me, it’s about institutions.“
Anyone who appeals should be recalled, but they (sacked doctors) have to take the step. Let the doctors’ go to their em-ployers and resolve the is-sue, any doctor who still wants to remain can have his job back, engage with your employers.
”On allegation of reneg-ing on the agreement the state government had with doctors, he said the gov-ernment has bent back-wards to ensure that the doctors are comfortable due to the important ser-vice they provide.
But the Nigerian Medi-cal Association (NMA) condemned the reinstate-ment of the 34 sacked doc-tors, describing it as “pro-paganda.”Speaking at a press briefing in Lagos yester-day, the state Chairman of the NMA, Dr Edamisan Temiye, said that the re-instated doctors were not among the initially sacked ones as some were on leave and others on study leave when the lingering crisis erupted.
“We have it on author-ity that these doctors were neither sacked nor que-ried,” he said.Temiye accused the state government of being unwilling to end the crisis as every effort to mediate in the matter has ended in deadlock.“
The governor is not ready to act. Is it possible for the Head of Service and the Lagos State Uni-versity Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, board to sack all its consultants without his approval?“Is it possible to sack two thirds of a group of professionals without the governor’s approval?
If the answer is no, then the governor has deceived all Lagosians and if the governor does not have power over people that he has selected to work for him then it is very sad,” he said.

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Chris Kehinde Nwandu is the Editor In Chief of CKNNEWS || He is a Law graduate and an Alumnus of Lagos State University, Lead City University Ibadan and Nigerian Institute Of Journalism || With over 2 decades practice in Journalism, PR and Advertising, he is a member of several Professional bodies within and outside Nigeria || Member: Institute Of Chartered Arbitrators ( UK ) || Member : Institute of Chartered Mediators And Conciliation || Member : Nigerian Institute Of Public Relations || Member : Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria || Fellow : Institute of Personality Development And Customer Relationship Management || Member and Chairman Board Of Trustees: Guild Of Professional Bloggers of Nigeria

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