Dr Oluwole who said the suspension smells of doom and grave consequences lay ahead in the delivery of specialist health care services.
The doctors have been on strike for more than a month over demand for improved conditions of service.
The Federal Government subsequently suspended the Residency Training Programme (RTP) in Federal health institutions leaving about 16, 000 resident doctors out of jobs.
According to the MDCAN boss, the areas that would suffer most in the ongoing impasse include special care baby units, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, oncology and other specialties.
“It is not clear to the MDCAN how Mr. President intends to recruit trainees into the programme. It is not clear how Junior and Senior Residents will be produced at the takeoff of the Programme or perhaps we will wait for the next five to 10 years to produce the first batch of senior residents,” he said in a statement.
“This suspension, which truncates more than four decades of investments in medical training, presents a future too bleak to contemplate” Dr. Oluwole added.
He said members of MDCAN who are the trainers of the resident doctors were not consulted “before taking a decision of this monumental magnitude.”
The residency training programme is designed to produce specialists in all fields of the practice of medicine. Although the programme commenced in Nigeria over 40 years ago, it is still being developed and remodeled.
“MDCAN is not aware of any country in the history of residency training where the Director of Residency Training is the Head of State,” the statement said.
