Ngige clarifies position on doctors’ migration
Mr Ngige made this known in a statement signed by Nwachukwu Obidiwe, his Special Assistant on Media, in Abuja on Thursday.
“Having retired as a Deputy Director, Medical Services and Training from the Federal Ministry of Health in 1998, member of Vision 2010 Committee on Health as well as senior member, Senate Committee on Health 2011-2015, therefore the truth no matter how it hurts, must be told and reality, boldly faced.
The minister added that Nigeria did not at present, have enough health facilities to accommodate all the doctors seeking to do tertiary specialist training in the teaching hospitals, federal medical centres and few accredited state and private specialist centres in the country. “They later turn this problem to a national advantage when they repatriate their legitimate earnings and later return to the country.
He also noted that a good number of doctors were relocating from the United States and other European countries. “But the truth is that the Federal Government has in its 2019 Budget now before the National Assembly, implemented the Health Act provisions for one per cent of the consolidated revenue of the Federation to be added to the health budget to boost medical services.
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