The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has said the
Federal Government will do all it can tp prevent medical doctors
from leaving the country.
The minister stated this on Friday in Abuja after inspecting
work on the new cancer centre at the National Hospital, Abuja.
Ehanire revealed that the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration
will provide the necessary incentives to make migration
unattractive for the doctors.
The Health Minister admitted that medical doctors leaving
Nigeria to foreign countries has become a challenge.
“We have plans to provide better funding for our hospitals
in Nigeria and make such migration unattractive,” he said.
According to Ehanire, hospitals performed well during the peak
of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country
He, therefore, pledged that the government will do everything
possible to ensure that doctors will prefer to remain and work in
the country.
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Ehanire advised hospital managements to spend wisely, properly
maintain the facilities when completed and seek alternative sources
of funding.
He praised the hospital administrators for its prompt services
to patients and advised them to be prepared for a possible
resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic as other countries are now
experiencing.
“Schools are resuming, people are travelling in and out the
country so we must be prepared for any emergency,” he
warned.
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