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Re: Brain Drain: Nigeria Left With 24,000 Doctors – NMA by olab059(m): 2:22pm On Oct 20, 2022
Elidrisy20:
Them still plenty nau,I was expecting 2400

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

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Re: Brain Drain: Nigeria Left With 24,000 Doctors – NMA by Solidex(m): 3:36pm On Oct 20, 2022
Brain- drain of our health professionals will continue to thrive until the government wakes up to their responsibilities.
Nigerian educational institutions produces one of the best set of Doctors, nurses and other paramedicals who could be compared with any of their kind in other parts of the globe. They have the requisite knowledge, skill, and intelligence even as they were trained in a very rugged terrain.
A time will come, when Nigerian will be left with only quacks and herbal medical dealers to attend to their health needs.
Lets them continue to pay less attention to one of the most valuable sector in our economy and concentrate their energy on frivolities.
Re: Brain Drain: Nigeria Left With 24,000 Doctors – NMA by IJEYdiamond(f): 3:52pm On Oct 20, 2022
Elidrisy20:
Them still plenty nau,I was expecting 2400

U no well oooo LOL... Haha..

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Re: Brain Drain: Nigeria Left With 24,000 Doctors – NMA by kingsceemark(m): 3:58pm On Oct 20, 2022
Antyislam:
When two bullon van drove to Tinubus house with billons of stolen money, Yoruba Muslims were clapping for him, now corruption have finished Nigeria . Tinubu must be rejected by all means

Yes oooo, Yoruba Muslim is the serious problems we have here in the South
Re: Brain Drain: Nigeria Left With 24,000 Doctors – NMA by JohnDazzy: 5:09pm On Oct 20, 2022
Amastermovic:
Increase the Fee to the norms and dont subsidised any one that want to study medicine can tKe loan or go to private university,
You can't enjoy free cheap education and dont be of use to the system and start comparing your salary to people earning in pounds ..

Option two
If you study in federal or state sch there's a minimum number of years before allowed to leave the shores of this country..

If all our security agencies decide to japa and engr who go build the hospital..

But our government no well jawe, make everyone japa to go meet the doctors over there after all the elite no trust our medical system

You’re concentrating on the symptoms rather than the disease itself. The healthcare system is collapsing, the other day a patient died right in front of me, there was no resuscitation devices no ambu bag, suction machine to help increase patency of airway wasn’t functional, cpr was a waste of time. In a federal hospital sir. and these are things you will find in common ambulances in developed countries. The challenge is not just the poor pay of medical personnel but necessarily amenities to aid in good delivery of job isn’t there. Go to hospital wards, you’d see a lot of improvisations, using substandard alternatives just because the required equipment and items that should be provided by the government were not given to them. Even if the health workers want to be generous,is it their little salaries they’d use to buy equipment that the government should have provided?

So when
1. The work environment is bad enough to limit the quality of service you can provide
2. Salary is low compared to the workload and sometimes the salary is even not paid
3. Your mates outside Nigeria are flexing life
Who will not want to japa?

If the system was working well and everything was in order, nobody would want to work as a second class individual in another man’s country.

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Re: Brain Drain: Nigeria Left With 24,000 Doctors – NMA by Uchek(m): 5:49pm On Oct 20, 2022
What a tragedy of a nation?

JohnDazzy:


You’re concentrating on the symptoms rather than the disease itself. The healthcare system is collapsing, the other day a patient died right in front of me, there was no resuscitation devices no ambu bag, suction machine to help increase patency of airway wasn’t functional, cpr was a waste of time. In a federal hospital sir. and these are things you will find in common ambulances in developed countries. The challenge is not just the poor pay of medical personnel but necessarily amenities to aid in good delivery of job isn’t there. Go to hospital wards, you’d see a lot of improvisations, using substandard alternatives just because the required equipment and items that should be provided by the government were not given to them. Even if the health workers want to be generous,is it their little salaries they’d use to buy equipment that the government should have provided?

So when
1. The work environment is bad enough to limit the quality of service you can provide
2. Salary is low compared to the workload and sometimes the salary is even not paid
3. Your mates outside Nigeria are flexing life
Who will not want to japa?

If the system was working well and everything was in order, nobody would want to work as a second class individual in another man’s country.
Re: Brain Drain: Nigeria Left With 24,000 Doctors – NMA by Ijb11: 6:14pm On Oct 20, 2022
Soon it will be zero
Re: Brain Drain: Nigeria Left With 24,000 Doctors – NMA by Uchek(m): 6:16pm On Oct 20, 2022
Your analogy is atrocious and horrible. You are comparing India that has ten times more skilled manpower in India than those in Diaspora. You are comparing India whose institutions and bureaucracy works to produce the essential goods and services. You are comparing India that practices true federalism where the states control their economic destiny and unencumbered by an incompetent and incapable Centre dominated by quota-system and federal character appointees. You are comparing India whose Diaspora citizens are trooping back to India to develop the country. You are comparing India with Nigeria where her leaders don't engage in medical tourism like all your political leaders starting from your president. Stop comparing Nigeria with other countries. Nigeria is a FAILED STATE.

No country becomes great when your best of best are imprisoned outside as ECONOMIC MIGRANTS

CyberHustle:
Our lack of organisation is stunning.
We have excess supply of dormant engineers, lawyers and accountants in the labour market. Instead of sustaining the system producing theses dormant hands, why not adjust things from secondary school level? Make more spaces available to study medical sciences and medical related courses. This can solve a lot of problems. More local doctors, more foreign doctors remitting forex crude oil cannot keep up with, better utilization of available minds.
India don't see it as a brain drain as much we do because they have robust educational system constantly adjusting to global market demands. This is how they earn huge remittances from technology and medical science.
We are cursed with leadership in Africa.


https://www.universitytimes.in/brain-drain-the-loss-of-engineers-and-doctors-in-india/

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Re: Brain Drain: Nigeria Left With 24,000 Doctors – NMA by vivaciousvivi(f): 6:28pm On Oct 20, 2022
Elidrisy20:
Them still plenty nau,I was expecting 2400
For a country of over 200millin shocked

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Re: Brain Drain: Nigeria Left With 24,000 Doctors – NMA by Elidrisy20: 6:50pm On Oct 20, 2022
vivaciousvivi:

For a country of over 200millin shocked
we are not up to 100m, daily ppl are dieing in thousands in Nigeria
Re: Brain Drain: Nigeria Left With 24,000 Doctors – NMA by alphaNomega: 9:39pm On Oct 20, 2022
Why do you people keep lying to yourselves that Nigeria has 200 million people?
Re: Brain Drain: Nigeria Left With 24,000 Doctors – NMA by CyberHustle: 8:54am On Oct 21, 2022
Uchek:
Your analogy is atrocious and horrible. You are comparing India that has ten times more skilled manpower in India than those in Diaspora. You are comparing India whose institutions and bureaucracy works to produce the essential goods and services. You are comparing India that practices true federalism where the states control their economic destiny and unencumbered by an incompetent and incapable Centre dominated by quota-system and federal character appointees. You are comparing India whose Diaspora citizens are trooping back to India to develop the country. You are comparing India with Nigeria where her leaders don't engage in medical tourism like all your political leaders starting from your president. Stop comparing Nigeria with other countries. Nigeria is a FAILED STATE.

No country becomes great when your best of best are imprisoned outside as ECONOMIC MIGRANTS

I recommended what I felt was most achievable. Your condemnation of my example of India appears hasty because the point about comparing India to us is all focused on what we share in common that can aid my idea. We have lots of gifted and unengaged hands in fields like accountancy, law, engineerrung and human sciences. These brain according to my suggestions, should be carefully redirected towards in-demands fields like medical practitioners that can help met crucial local need and earn us forex.

All those talk about medical tourism, quota system, diaspora Indians returning, and production is irrevant to my point.
My point is focused on global demand and supply forces of skilled labours and availability of capable minds that can be redirected towards these global skill shortages.
Re: Brain Drain: Nigeria Left With 24,000 Doctors – NMA by Chroming: 3:33pm On Oct 28, 2022
What a nation we are living in .

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