mediclife1987:


My set finished with 232 docs in 2011, of all the nos of universities being opened how many have a licence to offer Medicine as a course? Even the mighty Uniben once had their licence withdrawn and you're talking about new universities. Even Unis like Igbinedion & Babcock go out affiliate teaching hospitals to teach their students. The minister has received you into thinking we have much doctors, but what we really have is a reduction in the nos of doctors being employed. In my time as a House Officer, we had 1s, 2nd & even 3rd batch occasionally with a total nos of about 300docs being enrolled for Internship, now most hospitals barely employ 50 for such positions, does that mean we have surplus doctors Even with the influx of docs going to Ukraine to study, how many of them are getting licences to practice in Nigeria? Ask your wife of the nos of them that pass. The last time, there was an uproar cos only about 30% of them passed the licensing exams in Nigeria. If I'm in a interview filled with Ukraine trained docs, I'll be jumping on my feet, cos I know I'll floor them easily. Your gov is trying to fool you into thinking there are surplus docs but now you have a doc doing the job of 10.

My dear I'm not trying to convince you so as not to appear self serving cos I really don't need your acceptance of my speech. The fact right now is even if the Gov raise our salaries to #1million/month, I assure you docs will still run away, cos we've never had it this bad b4. We've never had this amount of brazen hatred b4. Docs are now like an endangered specie here.

About docs not having the wherewithal to travel out, that's a blatant lie, if it were so, the nos of people writing PLAB wont have tripled in the last 2years. About docs not getting VISAs, there are docs that don't write their applications properly, I know of some of them. There's even a very popular Indian with a blog concerning docs that want to leave the shores of the country, he also applied and failed but he was given at the 2nd time. There's no doc I know that has been denied Visa twice. Not even now that I told you already that Visa stress has been relaxed for us by the former prime minister.

The reason why we are still shouting with people is the love for our country. I was earning 245k in 2014, but now I only earn 150k due to gimmicks the government has created called scarcity of jobs. The surplus you are referring to is very artificial and bogus. Infact most private hospitals now train school dropouts and put them on night duty to pose as doctors, hence creating the unemployment, not as if the no of Medical graduates has created or somerhing.

In my time, the no of docs leaving where fewer compared to those being churned out, now it has equaled, but I trust Nigerians, we always like to call others bluff, we'll wait till the nos of those leaving surpasses those being churned out b4 we do something about it.

Go to mist FMCs they're looking badly for resident doctors, even a Consultant told me very soon there'll be no more resident docs cos even those in the system are running away. LUTH CMD was furious around last year cos ALL the newly employed residents in a particular dept had absconded, leaving them to go through the stress of employing new ones who'll also run away after 6months of employment

I guess you like that pattern...

kitone:
They are unemployed because one person is doing the work of 10 in other sane countries.sometimes the government officials collects money and claim they have 100 doctors in their hospitals while in reality only 20 are employed.they now share the money almost themselves . That's why corruption is Is destroying our country

mknigeriagreat:


Okay I heard you.

Ugosample:


you don see am na

mediclife1987:


My set finished with 232 docs in 2011, of all the nos of universities being opened how many have a licence to offer Medicine as a course? Even the mighty Uniben once had their licence withdrawn and you're talking about new universities. Even Unis like Igbinedion & Babcock go out affiliate teaching hospitals to teach their students. The minister has received you into thinking we have much doctors, but what we really have is a reduction in the nos of doctors being employed. In my time as a House Officer, we had 1s, 2nd & even 3rd batch occasionally with a total nos of about 300docs being enrolled for Internship, now most hospitals barely employ 50 for such positions, does that mean we have surplus doctors Even with the influx of docs going to Ukraine to study, how many of them are getting licences to practice in Nigeria? Ask your wife of the nos of them that pass. The last time, there was an uproar cos only about 30% of them passed the licensing exams in Nigeria. If I'm in a interview filled with Ukraine trained docs, I'll be jumping on my feet, cos I know I'll floor them easily. Your gov is trying to fool you into thinking there are surplus docs but now you have a doc doing the job of 10.

My dear I'm not trying to convince you so as not to appear self serving cos I really don't need your acceptance of my speech. The fact right now is even if the Gov raise our salaries to #1million/month, I assure you docs will still run away, cos we've never had it this bad b4. We've never had this amount of brazen hatred b4. Docs are now like an endangered specie here.

About docs not having the wherewithal to travel out, that's a blatant lie, if it were so, the nos of people writing PLAB wont have tripled in the last 2years. About docs not getting VISAs, there are docs that don't write their applications properly, I know of some of them. There's even a very popular Indian with a blog concerning docs that want to leave the shores of the country, he also applied and failed but he was given at the 2nd time. There's no doc I know that has been denied Visa twice. Not even now that I told you already that Visa stress has been relaxed for us by the former prime minister.

The reason why we are still shouting with people is the love for our country. I was earning 245k in 2014, but now I only earn 150k due to gimmicks the government has created called scarcity of jobs. The surplus you are referring to is very artificial and bogus. Infact most private hospitals now train school dropouts and put them on night duty to pose as doctors, hence creating the unemployment, not as if the no of Medical graduates has created or somerhing.

In my time, the no of docs leaving where fewer compared to those being churned out, now it has equaled, but I trust Nigerians, we always like to call others bluff, we'll wait till the nos of those leaving surpasses those being churned out b4 we do something about it.

Go to mist FMCs they're looking badly for resident doctors, even a Consultant told me very soon there'll be no more resident docs cos even those in the system are running away. LUTH CMD was furious around last year cos ALL the newly employed residents in a particular dept had absconded, leaving them to go through the stress of employing new ones who'll also run away after 6months of employment

I guess you like that pattern...

sisipelebe:
There is shortage of medical doctors in Nigeria, most especially in the North. How come 40% are still unemployed?

ABOUTERICA:
What about 98% unemployed engineers .. and u are there complaining . Just 40% and u are crying ...

agwom:
About 40 percent of medical doctors in Nigeria are are unemployed, Chairman, Federal Capital Territory branch of the Nigeria Medical Association, Ekpe Phillips, has said. Ekpe, a gynaecologist at the Nyanyan General Hospital said this in Abuja yesterday at a roundtable discussion on accountability for maternal health in Nigeria organized by the Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre, in Partnership with the National Human Rights Commission.

He said: “Many of them are employed by private hospitals that are not even paying them enough because of the economy. We don’t have enough doctors and the ones we have are not being utilized.

“The manpower issue is that government is not engaging the needed health personnel. We need to make the place conducive. As you build the primary healthcare centres, make accommodation available, electricity and make life conducive for the workers.” Executive Director, WARDC, Abiola Afolabi, said, maternal mortality could be successfully reduced “if we put women’s rights at the centre of the equation.”

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/40-of-doctors-unemployed-in-nigeria-nma.html

Tats:
Doctors unemployed in Nigeria and yet I attended an annual general meeting for my NHS trust this week and they complained seriously of Staff shortage which would include Doctors, Nurses and other health professionals.

famzynet:


It's really a sad situation in the country. You are right! Most doctors as of 2011 hardly think of leaving the country but it is so unfortunate that virtually every medical graduate now wants to leave . Not just doctors,but even nurses , radiographers, etc. A lot of people don't really understand the implications of health workers leaving a country. I know 3 doctors presently doing residency at LUTH writing final foreign exam to leave . I am sure there are still a lot more planning to leave. Who doesn't like sweet thing? The practice abroad is far fulfilling, lucrative and encouraging than what is obtainable in Nigeria. You won't blame doctors for leaving. Many were pushed to the wall and their effort not valued by the masses. Our leaders cannot even sacrifice their lives for half of Nigeria so why would these young ones do same after the suffering of medical school. When I see topic like this on nairaland I just smile and thank God that I took the decision to leave Nigeria after the present government conned Nigerians. Who said doctors are denied visa? Except there are errors in the application. It is hard to see a health worker with genuine intent and documents to go and work abroad denied visa on second application. Most of these developed countries are so eager to take health professionals from Nigeria to make up for their shortages.Just pass their exams and you are good to go.

tosinosam:

Other hustles It ain't easy as u say except if u're jokin. Other hustle?

RichBoy247:


Not a whole doctor. It's half doctor. Doctors are professionals just like bankers, engineers, lawyers, e.t.c. The work they do that makes them think they are helping God to maintain the humans the HE created is also being done by secondary school drop outs who are trained by auxiliary nurses in the neighbourhoods.

wizkidblogger:


Life itself ain't easy. You can't just sit down waiting for job doing nothing else to survive...