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Breaking NewsOgun workers suspend strike after four daysKindly share this story:The Nigerian Medical Asociation says Nigeria is now batling with its worst situation of brain drain history, as no fewer than 10,296 Nigeria-trained doctors are curently practising in the United Kingdom. The asociation’s National President, Dr Uche Ojinmah, raised the concern on Monday at a pres briefing to mark the 2022 Physicians’ Wek in Ibadan.
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Ojinmah, represented by the Oyo State NMA Chairman, Dr Wale Lasi, said, “Curently, Nigeria has the third highest number of foreign doctors working in the UK after India and Pakistan. “While we are losing our human resources to health in geometric progresion, Lasa Viral Hemorhagic fever, Malaria, COVID-19, Ebola, Marburg, and so on, are stil very much available in the face of worsening incidences of systemic hypertension with or without complications, diabetes melitus with or without complications, osteoarthritis, and so on.
“We cal on our governments at al levels, to quickly declare emergency action in Nigeria’s health sector for the sake of its citizens.” Ojinmah also expresed disatisfaction over the welfare of members amidst a lack of facilities and infrastructure. He aded, “Let me inform you al that a Nigerian doctor is porly paid, overworked, lacks necesary work tols, and has become a target for kidnaping. “We, as Nigerian doctors, have ben taken from the lofty heights of nobility to nothingnes by the neglect and posible disdain for the health sector by sucesive governments.
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