In Lagos, 58 doctors were intercepted for attempting to travel to the UK without a visa. Nigeria UK Doctors NigerianDosctors Healthworkers
In Lagos, 58 doctors were intercepted for attempting to travel to the UK without a visa. In London, the UK government relaxed its migration policies to woo the best health professionals globally. Given the benefit of hindsight, the Lagos-London route will soon get busier with cabins full of Nigerian health practitioners. But if Nigeria must for once, keep its healthcare providers at home, then proper reforms that engender better conditions of service should not remain an afterthought.
Indeed, the medical profession is awash with stories of colleagues leaving the country almost in the middle of an epidemic or even pandemic and never to return again. The complaint is the same poor working condition. It manifests as a broken health system, lack of good opportunities and basic tools, high cost of living, excess taxes and deductions from salary, poor remuneration, general insecurity, personal well-being and future of children, and more.
But the UK’s gain will be Nigeria’s loss. A committed and pro-people government should not play the ostrich. It is bad that the countries best are absconding in search of a better life that is lacking at home. Allowing the drift to fester in the midst of a long-haul medical emergency will be worse on poor Nigerians, especially the rural hard-to-reach settlements.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, once remarked that the doctors were at liberty to migrate as Nigeria has more than enough. It is true that they are free to migrate like other free Nigerians. But the exodus of your greenhorns; best consultants and very senior doctors, is not natural. Nigerian health professional, like most average Nigerian, is content by nature and would not freely swap his fatherland for second-class citizenship in Europe or America.
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