The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has told Nigerian doctors planning to relocate to the United Kingdom to take note of the fact that they will not be paid hazard allowance if they migrate.
The minister was responding to a question regarding the failed attempt of 58 doctors to travel to the UK last week.reports that until June, medical doctors in Nigeria earned N5,000 or $12.95 as monthly hazard allowances.
Ehanire said, “I think we are one of the few countries giving hazard allowance. This UK where they are going, there is no hazard allowance, they don’t give doctors hazard allowance but you just get you salary, that is all because I have spoken to the doctors there. “Even in the UK they are losing doctors to other countries so they think there is a movement but I think we have to look at our own situation the best way we can,” he said.
Ehanire stated, “With regards to the 58 doctors, we were all surprised to hear that they were at the airport and it was irregular in that many of them did not have visas. I don’t know what evidence you have whether they have left the country but no one should leave the country without a visa.”
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