GboyegaD:

Is public education not free in the US from K - 12? Why is their education not bastardized? The challenge is that we are not doing things rightly as a nation. We should first fix the problem of corruption and then we can then fix the other challenges.

The minister informed the committee that the ministry was engaging all categories of health workers residing outside the country in discussions, using the Diaspora Unit.

He disclosed that the responses received so far were favourable, as they had expressed the desire to come home and establish hospitals.

blacksta:

Come home and do what.   Come and operate under candle light  - what a joke , what is typical salary of doctor in Nigeria.   

5 years plus Nigerian doctors in the US and UK are pratically millionaires in the Nigerian context.

GboyegaD:

Is public education not free in the US from K - 12? Why is their education not bastardized? The challenge is that we are not doing things rightly as a nation. We should first fix the problem of corruption and then we can then fix the other challenges.

why do they always feel the need to encourage people to come home instead of  encouraging the people in Nigeria to stay put

The House of Representatives Committee on the Diaspora said on Tuesday that about 77 per cent of members of associations of black doctors practising in the United States of America were Nigerians.

The committee expressed the desire to partner with the Federal Ministry of Health to find ways of bringing a good number of the medical professionals back home to assist in transforming the country’s health care system.

Members of the committee, which is headed by Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, had met with the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, in Abuja where they discussed the need to encourage some of the doctors to return home.

The ministry recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Nigerian health professionals in the Diaspora and opened a Diaspora Unit to coordinate relations between the health practitioners and the ministry.

Dabiri-Erewa told the minister that Nigerian professionals in the Diaspora were always willing to render assistance but observed that the hindrance had been lack of coordination.

“In the US alone, about 77 per cent of black doctors in associations are Nigerians; they are willing to come back home and assist in various ways to develop our health sector.

“So, it is the thinking of this committee that there is a lot we can do to get these doctors to partner with their colleagues back home in the interest of our health care system.

“We have many challenges in our health sector where their services will be useful, most times at no cost,” she added.

Dabiri-Erewa noted that Nigeria could borrow a leaf from India, where Indian doctors in the Disapora had been drafted home through a carefully planned programme, which made practising at home “more attractive” than going abroad.

She stated that due to quality of health services offered in India, it had become the destination of about 25, 000 patients from Nigeria annually in search of medical care.

“Over 25, 000 Nigerians travel to India every year for medical treatment, which could easily have been provided here.

“We can change the trend if we encourage our doctors in the Diaspora to come home,” she said.

However, a member of the committee, Mr. Bimbo Daramola, observed that one of the challenges that must be addressed urgently in the health sector was the provision of infrastructure.

The minister informed the committee that the ministry was engaging all categories of health workers residing outside the country in discussions, using the Diaspora Unit.

He disclosed that the responses received so far were favourable, as they had expressed the desire to come home and establish hospitals.

According to Chukwu, the ministry is more interested in medical professionals with specialised skills in surgery, renal cases and other fields requiring special training.

He said the idea would be to bring home medical experts who could establish centres to handle the cases that account for why Nigerians travel abroad for medical treatment.


SOURCE: http://www.punchng.com/health/77-of-black-doctors-in-us-are-nigerians-reps-committee/

GboyegaD:

Perhaps she is referring to PhD holders 

femmy2010:


Perhaps she is referring to PhD holders

lol

tpia@:

good question.

because they know they'll be in big soup if they do that. They dare not even so much as mention it because they know the consequences.

two more questions.

1. Is there a particular reason why she's focusing on the US.  Are nigerian doctors not present elsewhere.

2. Is she aware PhD holders are also referred to as doctors.

beespak7:

Why are most of you doubting these figures, Nigeria has more than 5000 medical doctors in the usa thanks to brain drain, and Nigerians  have the highest number of educated foreingners in the U.s.a and this has been confirmed.

Gbam !!!