Lab scientists, NMA disagree over rot in hospitals

The Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN) has disagreed with the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) over the cause of the rot in public hospitals and health institutions.
A statement signed by the National President of the association, Alhaji Toyosi  Raheem and two executives noted that NMA recently blamed other health professionals for the rot.
“Insistence on their rights and privileges by other professionals in the health sector cannot be attributed to death of public hospitals as NMA attempted to portray,” they said.
“It has been clearly pronounced by various courts of competent jurisdictions that the era when medical doctors treat other health professionals as ‘errand boys’ and ‘girls’ or ‘slaves’ is gone and gone forever and that every profession, especially medical laboratory science is separate, distinct and autonomous from medicine/surgery; and capable of administering, supervising and heading their practice,” they said in the statement.