Showcase the Activities of FEDERAL MINSTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES

[Bravebold]

Showcase the Activities of:
FEDERAL MINSTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES

[Bravebold]

[Bravebold]

Dr. Alausa delivered President Bola Ahmed Tinubu speech on Universal Health coverage at the UN General Assembly plenary session today
The video of the speech and some pictures

[Bravebold]

[Bravebold]

More pictures

[Bravebold]

[Bravebold]

Video

[Bravebold]

[Adawebs]

*This is sad but appears beyond anyone's control*

"The exodus of healthcare professionals out of the country for greener pastures is taking a toll on service delivery in many teaching hospitals as critical departments in various facilities are left with fewer experienced hands.

A  lot of medical doctors, nurses and midwives, pharmacists, medical laboratory scientists, physiotherapists, radiographers and other healthcare workers have migrated out of the country, thereby causing a dearth in the needed manpower at the facilities.

This further causes too much workload for the remaining staff, along with attendant burnout, delays in accessing health care for patients or poor quality, or no care at all for some.

Investigations revealed that some teaching hospitals, for instance, can no longer boast of a single medical doctor in specialities like nephrology, dermatology, cardiology, gynaecology, urology and dentistry, among others, to enable patients access care for kidney diseases and dialysis, skin care, heart diseases, female and male reproductive health and oral health.

The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) said Nigeria had only about 24, 000 actively licensed physicians caring for its over 200million population as a result of brain drain in the country.

The president of the association,   Dr Ojinmah Uche, said this gave a ratio of approximately 1 doctor to 10,000 patients. He said this was a national average, as in most states, the situation is palpably worse.

He said, "Only one doctor is incredibly available to treat 30,000 patients in some states in the South, while states in the North are as worse as one doctor to 45,000 patients. In some rural areas, patients have to travel more than 30 kilometers from their abodes to get medical attention where available, thus Nigeria making access to health care a rarity."

Nigeria is also estimated to have the third highest number of foreign medical doctors working in the United Kingdom, after India and Pakistan.
The number of Nigerian-trained nurses who left Nigeria for the UK was the third-highest in the world and highest in Africa, according to a study by the development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC).

The Medical and Dental Consultants' Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) said its 2022 survey revealed that over 500 consultants were estimated to have left Nigeria over the preceding two years.

"Fresh doctors work under supervision of the more senior ones. Without addressing the retention of the more senior doctors, coercion of the fresh doctors to stay in the system will be a futile effort," Victor Makanjuola, president of MDCAN said."

[Adawebs]