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

They are unemployed because we have too many - According to that former minister of labourer

Ahhhhhh this is serious. 40% unemployed
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Buhari only care about cows and cows alone .


If fulani herdsmen and their cows are happy, Buhari is happy.

According to Chris Ngige we have more than enough doctors working, the rest should leave Nigeria if they want to, when in reality Nigeria doctors to patient ratio is 1 to 5000.

Nigeria has few hospitals, low annual budget your the health sector so doctors are not highly in demand.

This is gross misinformation. He could have said 40% are underemployed but unemployed is a no no and a big lie. I have never seen a serious unemployed doctor in Nigeria except if he or she is picky about jobs, then salary or disadvantaged about locations if outside the cities i. e Lagos and Co. The reason why I might agree they are underemployed is because they are not being paid their worth in most private hospitals irrespective of the profit the hospital makes and the cause of this is still the doctors, they own the hospital.

I don't believe this. Not true.

A whole Doctor. Yet one minister said we have enough doctors while the rest can leave though NMA said there are acute shortage of doctors in the country. About 32000 doctors serving a population of 200 million

Pathetic

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

I don,t believe that.

This is so true. I know a couple of them looking for placements. While many others have to endure working under not so cool seniors. Sighs.

Despite the brain drain?

And for school dem dey act as if they have been automatically Employed since Year One

NaijaRoyalty:
Buhari only care about cows and cows alone .

If fulani herdsmen and their cows are happy, Buhari is happy.

Yes, you are right. Goatluck Jonathan and Obasanjo employed them but Buhari sacked them all. You need to see the unemployed doctors for brain test.

Including me

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we are still talking about doctors.when nigeria itself is unemployed.

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

noble71:
I don't believe this. Not true.

he is

Not really. Most of them feels they should be the highest paid in the nigerian market and because of the high number of them, demand is lower than supply so when they are offered a job with a payment an accountant will jump at, they walk away. That said.

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Never seen a profession so loud and selfish

I can only pray for Nigeria while we hope for better days at least for the sake of the next generation.

Hmm... there was a country

royalads:
This is so true. I know a couple of them looking for placements. While many others have to endure working under not so cool seniors. Sighs.

Placement for internship as always been this way only that it wasn't this bad. The unemployment he's referring to is post nysc employment and not internship.