‘Joblessness, Inflation Creating Crisis, Brain Drain in Health Sector’ Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti A medical laboratory scientist and scholar at the Achievers’ University, Owo, Ondo State, Dr. Olabisi Oduwole, has reve
A medical laboratory scientist and scholar at the Achievers’ University, Owo, Ondo State, Dr. Olabisi Oduwole, has revealed that the astronomic unemployment and inflationary rates in Nigeria were largely responsible for the crisis of brain drain hitting the health sector.
The academic added that the current health environment in the country is full of crisis and hopelessness because government remains the largest employer of labour, and due to abysmally reduced purchasing power of the currency, thereby forcing health professionals to seek greener pastures abroad. “But amid the uncertainties, there are untapped opportunities for the young and fledging Medical Laboratory experts, who can blend into the dynamic scientific environment that had created expanded roles for other healthcare professionals, who are not physicians. So you are lucky to have come into the field this time”.