Several medical doctors and other health workers have left the country, searching for greener pastures elsewhere.
The Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, has on several occasions emphasized the need to improve the welfare of medical doctors, to keep the Nigerian trained doctors in the country, an appeal government at all levels have failed.
Here in Rivers State, some medical doctors working for the state government say they are the worst paid in the country as they have been earning the same salaries for almost ten with no promotion.
The doctors who spoke with Today FM’s Ifunanya Obeme-Ndukwe said there is a shortage of man power in the health sector in the state.
A nurse who spoke to Today FM also said she would embrace any opportunity to leave the country.
Speaking on the welfare of doctors in the state, the President of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD in the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, RSUTH, Doctor Nimi Briggs confirmed the current administration has commenced the implementation of promotion approved by the previous administration in some Boards after almost ten years.
Doctor Briggs noted that the health workers at RSUTH have not been promoted as the Board to carry out the function is yet to be constituted.
It may interest you to know that Governor Siminalayi Fubara had last Wednesday, promised to employ health workers in the state, during the commissioning of the Dental Maxillo-facial, Ophthalmology, ENT Hospital.
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