Ngige's Solecism And The Rest Of Us By Daniel Bott “With which mouth” will Ngige, as the minister of labour and employment, ask the president to employ more doctors, when he has said we have a net surplus and exporting them... Fmohnigeria READ MORE:
The wrath of 200 million angry Nigerians burned like acid against Dr. Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, for his foolishness on Channels TV yesterday. As soon as he made the comment, I knew he would be our punching bag for a couple of days. I have not given him my own uppercut yet. But Nigerians have beaten him and removed his front teeth already, so what am I hitting again?
I read a report by NOI Polls about immigration of Nigerian doctors and it’s a very disturbing report. It is a fairly bulky report but let me highlight a few things. Since the unforced error by Ngige, it has become common knowledge that WHO recommends 1 doctor to 600 people, but we have 1 doctor to 5,700 people, based on our current population. The report says that Nigeria needs an additional 268,333 doctors to achieve the WHO recommendation.
It costs Nigeria N3,800,000 to train one medical doctor. So, when 37,000 of them leave the country after acquiring medical education, the country would have lost N140 billion. But Ngige has asked us not to worry because these doctors send us dollars. Yet he hasn't told us how much is the cost of the lives of women and children we lose daily due to the lack of doctors in our hospitals. Perhaps the USD that our"abroadian" doctors send can bring back to life those who have died.
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