Olufemi Atoyebi, Eniola Akinkuotu, Leke Baiyewu, Olaleye Aluko and Dayo Ojerinde The Nigerian Medical Association, the National Association of Resident Doctors, the Socio-Economic Right and Accountab
ility Project and human rights groups on Wednesday took a swipe at the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, over his comment that the country had enough medical doctors.
“Who says we don’t have enough doctors? We have more than enough. You can quote me. There is nothing wrong in them travelling out. When they go abroad, they earn money and send it back home here. Yes, we have foreign exchange earnings from them and not just oil.” But in separate interviews with our correspondents, the NMA president, Dr Francis Faduyile and his NARD counterpart, Dr Segun Olaopa, said Ngige did not have the knowledge of the World Health Organisation’s recommendation on doctor-patient ratio.The NMA president said Nigeria had no enough doctors, stressing the need to ensure the country retained its medical personnel.
He added, “There are states that have not employed doctors. We have states that have fewer than 50 doctors in their health sector and some have not paid doctors for 10 months. There is a state where over 80 doctors resigned because the state did not take care of their welfare. “The minister is totally ignorant of the health system situation in Nigeria and it is unfortunate that someone who should know would make such a spurious pronouncement on national television. He spoke as a politician and nothing more. And we strongly doubt he represents the views of his paymasters.”“It is sad that somebody of his calibre will try to go to that extent of covering up a large degree of incompetence of not doing proper diligence.
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