URGENT APPEAL TO MDCN REGARDING NYSC DOCTORS AS THEY ARE BEING SENT HOME FROM CAMP

''I'm a medical doctor who just finished my internship and is supposed to serve with stream 2 of the present batch b 2015 NYSC and I'm writing this on behalf of NYSC 2015 batch B doctors.
During the internship we are given provisional registration with the MEDICAL AND DENTAL COUNCIL OF NIGERIA  (MDCN) which is supposed to be exchanged for the permanent registration on completion of the internship program. 

  Now the problem...MDCN takes forever to process our licence(3months or more, depending on if you have "legs" that can hasten the process for you, and "legs" cost money) and for those of us going to serve they have issued a directive to NYSC not to accept doctors without permanent licence even though we have evidence of completion of internship and receipts of payment for the permanent licence (ranging from#31,000 to #51,000).

  Now doctors are being driven from camp to go and 'look for' their licence, going up and down from their respective states of deployment to MDCN  offices in Lagos and abuja. It is not our fault that the council takes months to do what should normally be done in maximum of a week (people with really long legs get theirs processed in 2days...fact!). 

  Why does Nigeria make things hard for its own? You spend 8years or more in pursuit of your medical certificate and the very council that is supposed to protect you takes it upon itself to ridicule you before other bodies. People that studied other courses do not get sent home to look for what is not lost. What if in the process of travelling from Bayelsa to Lagos to Abuja looking for our licence, someone has an accident?

 Do we spend some more months at home before going for NYSC just because the MDCN knows we should have our licence but refuse to process it in the right amount of time? Going through medical school and internship is enough stress, will NYSC too be stress for doctors courtesy MDCN?

  This is an urgent appeal to the Registrar of MEDICAL AND DENTAL COUNCIL OF NIGERIA, please issue a directive to NYSC to accept us with evidence of completion of housejob and receipt of payment for permanent licence since the council knows it can't yet handle timely processing of licences. This is what the PHARMACEUTICAL COUNCIL did and pharmacists are being allowed into camp. Please help your own, we are your students and junior colleagues striving so that we can be great like you someday.

 Anybody that can help us get this message across should please help.

 Thank you.

Dr Samuel