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"Brain Drain: Technology Graduates Can Replace Doctors, Others" - Provost of the Kwara State College of Health Technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLM2Qk7DWLM?si=SZ7-b4hL_OYsKa1h

The Provost of the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, Dr Aliyu Alabi has appealed to the Federal and State governments to strengthen the products of Health Technology Institutions across the country with a view to replacing the large number of Medical Doctors, Nurses and other medical workers leaving the country

Alabi made the appeal during a Press conference in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital where he spoke on the relevance of graduands of Health Technology to the Primary Health Institutions in the country.

According to Provost, the products of Colleges of Health Technology across Nigeria are so vast in handling middle level man power needs in the health sector paticularly at the grassroots.

Dr. Alabi who cited paucity of funds as the major challenge facing the institution, wants the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) to also consider Colleges of Health Technology for its financial interventions.

He noted that about One thousand, Six hundred products of the Health institution in Kwara State have been mobilized for the National Youth Service in the last two years, reflecting a significant contribution to the workforce needs of health facilities in the country.

The Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa has in the last few years produced over sixty thousand health technologists in various fields and contributing to the sector positively, Dr. Aliyu Alabi is quoted as saying.

https://ait.live/kwara-health-college-provost-proffers-suggestion-on-addressing-jappa-syndrome/

Just imagine what a supposedly educated fellow is saying. Nigeria is really filled with jokers who kept on underpaying the degradation of Nigeria’s National life from all facets.

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So Health Technology graduates go perform surgical operations ?

The only thing that will stop people from wanting to leave the country is if there is significant improvement in the economy of the country

Japa is everywhere. address the exchnage rate and the infrastrucutre. It will stop. Those two cannot be addressed except there is good leadership in the country. So address the leadership question.

Not really sure what to think about this.

On the one hand, this is an idea that might work for many rural areas, on the other hand, a SHO can't really replace a doctor.

Check if any member of his family jappa

He's high on amala and ewedu

This can really take place if the government put this into work. It's well!

What do you expect in a country that puts politics ahead of everything.
They politicze our education, health, economy, agriculture and so on.
We are in for a very long ride into oblivion.

Can the replacement meet the pace at which they japa?

People with 5 to 10 years experience are relocating and you want to replace them with fresh graduates with little or no experience?

Let's wait and see

We should actually establish more institutions to churn out more medical graduates (across all sub-fields) for export. Greater remittances, more avenues to learn new techniques and grasp knowledge. I betoken that more japa folks will return within a decade, with their return, they come with a higher skill-set and experience.

The Philippines, India, Nepal and Indonesia do this. We should do the same. India even has ease of work visas as part of any trade agreement it wants to sign with another country.

Discountsempai:
Not really sure what to think about this.

On the one hand, this is an idea that might work for many rural areas, on the other hand, a SHO can't really replace a doctor.

I think it's the way the reporter presented it.
I was shocked when I saw health technologist replacing dr's, but read further to see that he was talking about primary health care and middle level manpower, so majorly rural areas, moreover, even govt dey employed home trained nurse, which we majorly call auxiliary nurse, for such purposes

Abeg how is that a solution to the brain drain? You'll only be replacing professionals with neophytes. Thus at some point, few professionals might be available to transfer the relevant knowledge.

Also, why will an institution established by a state govt be calling for FG intervention when their state governor is few kilometres away? The governors create all sorts of institutions to score political points yet refuse to provide adequate funding. As it stands today, most state universities can't thrive without TETFUND support. This is nothing but lethargy by the state governors.

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Tinubu have held medical doctors, nurses b blokos. We die here

No matter the funds pumped....them go still japa.....it's no longer about seeking greener pasture ..some people just wan japa cause of peer pressure, cause their friends and colleagues don also japa....

If dem Neva break one doctor leg, others no go stop to dey Japa....

Well, nobody dey doubt una proficiency and prowessness, Na because u know sey education dey cheap for diz country cause am Sha, "I go back on my ability and get that cert, after that, na Japa" stüpidd mentality, u fit pay change to get a cert but u no wan collect change to practice what u have been impacted with to the community wey make am happen, werey in white, u get sense so?, u for kukuma go abroad to get the cert nah, nobody go complain as big bag dey cloud ur reasoning, maybe over there after u don cough out close to 200k dolls, ur eyes go clear, idiaatsss

Energist:
Abeg how is that a solution to the brain drain? You'll only be replacing professionals with neophytes. Thus at some point, few professionals might be available to transfer the relevant knowledge.

Also, why will an institution established by a state govt be calling for FG intervention when their state governor is few kilometres away? The governors create all sorts of institutions to score political points yet refuse to provide adequate funding. As it stands today, most state universities can't thrive without TETFUND support. This is nothing but lethargy by the state governors.

Actually, from the video, he called for state intervention not federal

This man is the real definition of CORRUPTION
EFCC don carry am Once

CHIOMAEZEH:
No matter the funds pumped....them go still japa.....it's no longer about seeking greener pasture ..some people just wan japa cause of peer pressure, cause their friends and colleagues don also japa....

I feel like slapping you. The reason why people japa is simply poor remittance in terms of thier wages, poor security and bad hospital infrastructure.
Imagine most Federal Medical Centre don't have a defibrillator.

You can't effectively stop human migration. People get out of North Korea, even.

What we need to do is to get our universities to increase their capacity to admit more students to study medicine instead of dispersing the thousands of applicants to less viable courses. We can have enough for home use and export.

We have the population and there's nothing wrong in exporting manpower.