Minister of Labour and
Employment, Chris Ngige earlier today said doctors are free to leave Nigeria,
as we have more than enough in the country.
Speaking on Channels TV
Sunrise Daily, Ngige said;
“I’m Not Worried, We Have
Surplus (Doctors), if we have a surplus, we export. I was taught Biology and
Chemistry by Indian teachers in my secondary school days.
“They are surplus in their
country. We have a surplus in the medical profession in our country. I can tell
you this. It is my area, we have excess. We have enough, more than enough,
quote me.”
“Those guys go there, they
are better trained because of the facilities they have there. Eventually, I
know a couple of them who practise abroad but set up medical centres back home.
They have CAT scan, MRI scan which even the government hospitals cannot
maintain. So, I don’t see any loss.
“Brain drain will only be
inimical when for instance neurosurgeons travel and we don’t have neurosurgeons
here.”
In reaction, Reno Omokri
tagged the statement as a show of arrogance, he wrote on Twitter;
What type of arrogance is
this? We have enough doctors? Is that why your boss, President @Mbuhari, spent
1 year and 39 days abroad, including over 6 months in a UK clinic? This
government is a punishment on the Nigerian people.
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