Nigeriadondie:

Nigeria is not worth sacrificing for. If those ruling us are not willing tonsacrifice their bogus salaries to free up resources to invest in our infrastructure then d sacrifice of just one person wud be so little to make any meaningful impact.
If u ve spoken with Nigerian professionals in d diaspora who really desire to make their contribution and how the govt wud frustrate d meaningful effort of such ones then u wud not be saying what u said.
The system is so rotten that it forbids progressive effort to make a positive change.
Nigeria is doomed.

toyetade:

I salute your patrotisim but there is a limit on how far you can go in Nigeria. The system just doesn't work. There is problem whichever direction you look and sometimes it appears there is no hope of things getting better. You have only one life to live.

debbie:
I dont blame them....why wont they seek for opportunities outside this country when they are under valued.How many hospitals do we have? how much is a medical doctor paid here? are we even ready to revamp our health sector?
We have the best brains in medical practice..we train them with little or nothing yet these young men and women will be thrown out and no jobs for them.

The older doctors and consultants are not even ready and willing to allow these young men and women practice well and and learn.
Our government is not even looking in the area of health to make it work.
Go to our hospitals and see how rotten it look and is run...\

I have a couple of friends who are doctors,,they all have left the shores of this country to work in mainly the middle east and European countries...they are earning well, working in a structured environment and ready to commit their times for their service and reward.

WHAT SORT OF SACRIFICE DO YOU WANT A DOCTOR TO MAKE? IS IT WHERE THERE IS NO FUNCTIONAL HEALTH FACILITY? WHERE A GENERAL HOSPITAL REFERS A PATIENT TO RUN A SCAN OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL? WHERE DRUGS ARE NEVER AVAILABLE IN THE HOSPITAL? WHERE DOCTORS RUN SEVERAL SHIFTS AND ARE OWED? WHERE NOTHING IS ACTUALLY WORKING?....ISNT IT ENOUGH SACRIFICE..ABII LET HIM DIE FOR YOU
Every heath worker is underrated in Nigeria..

Every day hospitals in Dubai and Saudi Arabia comes to Nigeria to pick our best doctors....currently many young doctors i know are seriously saving up funds to apply for visa to leave the country.
Even after spending over 8 years in school ..many of them dont mind enrolling afresh in a foreign country...you think that is funny?

Yet the government is so insensitive and blind...assuming we are doing well.No wonder our president is comfortably sitting in a foreign hospital.

Shame

mykl01:



Bros,Improve yassef here nau!
The doctors are going out to get decent wages, after which they too will return.

mcquin:

Thank you for your very decent reply. But a sacrifice you want to benefit from is no sacrifice. What about making those sacrifices for your children. If you don't reap your sacrifice in this life, your kids will. There is always hope.

mcquin:

Starting with your Account Name, it isn't fair at least to the sensibilities of the rest of us, even though I respect your right to having same. Nigeria will survive it's challenges, Amen. Going by your Analogy, Christ needed not go to the cross. The human race is marred in sin but Christ never saw the sacrifice at the Cross as a waste. Never say never. The tunnel always has an end and there will always be light at it's end.

ceaser:
Over the past 6 months, twelve (12) doctor friends have escaped for their lives into countries such as UK, SA, Australia, Canada, US, Germany, in that descending order. 9 of them are practicing doctors in their various destinations having written and passed the professional exam requirements of the various countries before leaving Nigeria. Others are there on postgraduate studies, but their target is to write their licencing exams and end up practicing medicine there.

My sibling is currently on the second step of the licencing exam. Close to 500 medical doctors sat for the IELTS earlier this year compared to just 30 four years ago.

Meanwhile, the useless health minister is currently brewing more problems in the health ministry and the agencies under it viz:

NHIS: Attempting to sack the NHIS executive secretary because he would not meet Adéwolé's unscrupulous financial demands and looting of the NHIS in connivance with the insurance providers.

:In the various Teaching Hospitals and other federal tertiary health institutions, there is dearth of doctors. In some, new house officers have not been employed to replace the ones that have left for over six months. Meanwhile there are hordes of fresh medical graduates who have been searching for places to do their internship as required by the MDCN, without which they cannot proceed to full registration from the provisional registration they currently have. If they fail to do internship within 2 years of graduation, they risk forfeiting their provisional registration status, needing them to resit the medical qualification exams all over again.

The so called residents exit the system when they complete their training. New residents are not employed to replace those that have exited the system leading to a pile up of aspiring ones with primaries qualification out there not getting places to run their programme. Meanwhile the primaries requirement for residency expires within 5 years if the bearer does not find a place to run his programme, also requiring his reapplying for and re-writing the primaries exams (which I think costs about 90 thousand naira currently)

Now here is the plot: The names of the house officers and the residents that have exited the system are still kept on the payroll of the hospitals and the salaries still come with the hospitals' allocations, but these ghost workers' pays are shared by the hospitals' accountants, MDs/CMDs/CEOs and also staffs of the federal ministry of health under the tutelage of the minister himself. Meanwhile the consultants who exit the system after training also are in their hundreds hunting for jobs out there.

Another favorite pastime of the Minister of health and the hospital CEOs as I am made to understand is to deliberately keep creating and fueling chaos in health sector amongst professionals (eg Johesu vs Doctors). This is based on the principle of "making more money in times of chaos and wars" and this is achieved through the release of various contradicting circulars from the ministry itself on a simple singular, straightforward issue.

Equipment's and infrastructure are all at an all time low. Only 3 centers in the whole nation boasts of a radiotherapy machine, the three not functioning optimally all at the same time or at any one time. If the Federal government ever budget and release the monies for such, the FMoH and the various hospital CEOs will rather spend the money allocated to procure such or at best get mediocres and second nd replacements and share the remains of the loots.

These are just a few of the evils that plague that sector in the country and is partly responsible or the unremitting brain drain.

It is germain that journalists an writers who are the conscience of the people (masses) understand the workings of this intricate machinery constructed by the various saboteurs in the health sector thru which they loot funds, inform the public appropriately amd even some workers in the health sector as well, who have been successfully brainwashed into believing that mutual suspicion is the panacea and acting out the script of their puppet masters (FMoH and the hospital CEOs) ia the solution.

Ceaser writes in from Lagos for Nairaland editorial.

cococandy:
Doctors here make on average about $200k-&300k a year.
Sometimes more.
With the current exchange rate a doctor making the minimum, will make $200k * 350 = 70 million a year. Which gives almost 6 million naira salary every month.

Nurses and many other professional health workers here make more than doctors there. Tell your Nigerian government to step up.

mcquin:
Too bad. While I condemn the government already, many of us are so unwilling to make sacrifices. Other persons made sacrifices to better their country.
The Nigerian doctor lives almost above average and it's the only career professional in Nigeria that enjoys good privileges as job-guarantee and good pay.
We must all learn to live our country. I want to leave Nigeria only to improve myself, come back and give back to Nigeria as Awolowo and Azikiwe did. God bless Nigeria.

blackbeau1:
Most of them just want the status of practicing outside the country

nemynely:


Little sis, it is not compulsory to contribute to a matter. It would have been better if you just quietly read through people's posts on this thread

Celepope:

Please Madame I will like to know the kind of Nurse and many other Professional health workers that make more than Doctors?Apart from Nursing midwives and Anasthetics, no Nurse even make half of what Doctors make especially in US.

cococandy:

I'm talking about doctors in nigeria. Nurses here (US) make more than them (talking about salary) not private practice doctors.

blackbeau1:
little bro, it's not compulsory to quote somebody's post. Different people have different opinions, you know

mcquin:
Too bad. While I condemn the government already, many of us are so unwilling to make sacrifices. Other persons made sacrifices to better their country.
The Nigerian doctor lives almost above average and it's the only career professional in Nigeria that enjoys good privileges as job-guarantee and good pay.
We must all learn to live our country. I want to leave Nigeria only to improve myself, come back and give back to Nigeria as Awolowo and Azikiwe did. God bless Nigeria.

Celepope:

Now I understand you better.Even Nursing Assistants in the US earn more than Nigerian doctors.Very sad.

Ximenez:
But owing them for six months or paying them half salary for three months is uncalled for and so is making them work in rat infested hospitals with leaking room.

Money is not everything but happiness is everything.

As a Doctor, if you have modern equipment at your disposal to do your calling by saving lives, even with a salary that is not that huge but decent and constant. You'll be happy and motivated, after all, Medicine is a vocation.

I see Nigeria as a jungle, when I'm ready and strong enough, I'll leave. I can't bring my child into this part of the world.

mcquin:

Starting with your Account Name, it isn't fair at least to the sensibilities of the rest of us, even though I respect your right to having same. Nigeria will survive it's challenges, Amen. Going by your Analogy, Christ needed not go to the cross. The human race is marred in sin but Christ never saw the sacrifice at the Cross as a waste. Never say never. The tunnel always has an end and there will always be light at it's end.

7stargeneralady:

You are wrong, doctors are not well paid and do not live above average. Average maybe

cococandy:
Doctors here make on average about $200k-&300k a year.
Sometimes more.
With the current exchange rate a doctor making the minimum, will make $200k * 350 = 70 million a year. Which gives almost 6 million naira salary every month.

Nurses and many other professional health workers here make more than doctors there. Tell your Nigerian government to step up.