All stakeholders must quickly come together to address these emerging Workforce disaster in the federal, states and teaching hospitals in Nigeria and not just continue to lament about it.
This is the appeal made by the chief medical director of the federal teaching Hospital in Ido-Ekiti at the end of the year program held at the hospital premises.
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The more we had, the more we lose the very best hands to the scourge of brain drain, those are the comments of the medical director of the federal teaching Hospitality, Ido-Ekiti at the occasion of their end-of-year program where staff and management takes stock of the year and gets set for the new year.
Chief Medical Director, FETHI, Adekunle Ajayi while addressing journalists in Ido-Ekiti said” very soon, we will not get surgeons to operate in our
theaters, we may not get nurses to attend to our patients in the ICU and others.
“Very soon, we may not have doctors, nurses to address or attend to patients.
The federal teaching Hospital in Ido-Ekiti with its many facilities both and new is not without its challenges which is major issue facing many government facilities around the country.
Welfare and funding remains germane.
Just like government introduced NCE to cater for the challenge in the education sector with the certificates domicile in Nigeria, there might be a need to create something similar in the health sector to stop the trend of health workers relocating abroad.
The aftermath of the pandemic that plagued the world, the demand for health workers continue to increase and that is the reason why medical personnel have left the shores of the country for greener pastures.
It is yet to be seen how the federal government will address this challenge as medical experts are calling for an emergency situation in the health sector.
