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Written by Aliyu Machika, Katsina   
Wednesday, 23 December 2009 00:21
Katsina State government has disclosed that hence forth it would spend over N600million annually on the 10 newly recruited foreign medical doctors.

The doctors recruited from Egypt are to collect N516, 800 every month as their monthly salary, even as their salary advance has already been approved.

Speaking to newsmen shortly after the familiarization visit to the state governor, General Manager of the Health Service Management Board Dr. Aliyu Mohammed El-Ladan said the state government had since improved the package of indigenous doctors to equally get pay similar to their foreign counterparts, adding that the expenditure became necessary for government be able to improve health delivery in the state.

“With this spending, I am sure the doctors will work assiduously for the state and this will no doubt improve the state of our health,” Dr. El-Ladan added.

The doctors have been shared to five general hospitals across the state, including two each for Mani, Funtua and Daura general hospitals while Kankia got one. A doctor was said to have left the country without notice to the state government.

Governor Ibrahim Shehu Shema called on the doctors to write to the state government on anything that would help improve the health of the people of the state, urging them to prioritize the needs of their respective hospitals.

Shema pledged that his administration would do anything to ensure they stay and work for the state, assuring the doctors that their request for soft loans to buy cars would be granted.

Are these doctors the ones that just finished from school or those who bring expertise? These are quite obviously specialists. Even Nigerian specialists in Nigeria get paid close to this and even more.

We gat better docs at home

where the hell did the naija doctor go to?

the muslims prefer fellow muslims to treat them yet they don't send their children to school, instead they are sent to become almajiris.

it's pretty clear that the north wants recolonization, this time in the hands of there fellow muslims - slaves 4 life, slaves they will continue to be.