Association Tasks RSHA On Residency Act Domestication

The Association of Resident Doctors has called on the Rivers State House of Assembly to domesticate the Residency Act in order to lessen the financial burden on members willing to go for further training.
President, Association of Resident Doctors at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH), Dr Josephine Sokolo, made the call in Port Harcourt while delivering a memorial lecture in honour of Dr Living Jamala, who lost his life to lasser fever in 2016.
Dr Sokolo says if the residency act is adopted some of the challenges resident doctors face in Rivers State will be resolved.
While appealing to the State legislature to look into the residency act and do the needful, she listed some of the problems facing the association to include lack of manpower and the high cost of training.
“We have a lot of challenges working in the state, such as the lack of man power right now. We are grossly understaffed in the hospital and secondly, as resident doctors, we are going through training and the training is very expensive.
“So because of that we need the residency act to be adopted by the Rivers State House of Assembly and if it is adopted, the residency training will be more affordable,” Dr Sokolo said.