{"id":100674,"date":"2022-10-25T09:14:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T08:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=100674"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T08:14:40","slug":"doctors-exodus-improve-medical-doctors-welfare-nma-urges-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/doctors-exodus-improve-medical-doctors-welfare-nma-urges-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors\u2019 Exodus: Improve Medical Doctors Welfare, NMA Urges FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has advised the Nigerian government to improve the welfare of medical doctors to check the mass exodus of doctors to developed countries.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Reports indicate that data available shows about 10,296 doctors that are trained in Nigeria are currently working on United Kingdom.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This experts say is increasing the brain drain in the medical profession and inimical to the growth of the health sector and health care delivery.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Addressing journalists to mark the 2022 Physicians\u2019 Week, Kano NMA branch Chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Sulaiman said if the government would address that pay disparity between state and federal, it would mitigate the problem of internal and external brain drain.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIf government would address pay disparity between state and federal government, that would stop doctors from going to Ghana, Uganda, South Africa, among others.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cYou know, Nigerian doctors go to even African countries, not only UK or Europe. This is to show you how bad the situation is.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cPeople would want to work with state government than federal if the salary doesn\u2019t have disparity,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The NMA Chairman also advised the government to improve working condition of doctors at medical institutions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He noted that poor working condition, not only good salary, but poor equipment and other logistics would make doctors leave the country..<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sulaiman noted that people are accusing doctors of being unpatriotic by leaving for foreign countries, saying\u201d doctors are one of the most patriotic in Nigeria in view of the salary they are earning, compared to other countries.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to him, \u201cIn some countries, the pay of one doctor, can pay the salaries of all of us sitting on this table monthly and still have change, you can imagine the disparity.\u201d<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has advised the Nigerian government to improve the welfare of medical doctors to check the mass exodus of doctors to developed countries. 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