It Is Satisfying Seeing Nigerian Doctors Abroad Returning Home – Senate

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Naijanews Oct. 10, 2021 5:32 a.m.

It Is Satisfying Seeing Nigerian Doctors Abroad Returning Home – Senate

“When you are talking about people going out, there is also internal migration, because people also have to internally go either out of the public sector to the private sector or out of even the health sector to other sectors.

The lawmaker noted that there were ongoing efforts by the federal government to source for resources to ensure better pay and improved welfare for resident doctors and health workers across the country.

There would be equilibrium as we go along, but because we have a large population like I said, we cannot afford to obstruct labour movements.” Meanwhile, the UPTH Chief Medical Director, Prof.Henry Ugboma,had earlier said the institution was in dire need of rehabilitation and solicited the support of non-governmental organisations and corporate individuals to make the institution a five-star hospital.

He said:“What we are doing is to get extra resources to enable us to pay our health workers more generally.

Oloriegbe linked migration of Nigerian health workers abroad to the basic law of demand and supply as well as pricing, noting that considering legislation to restrict such movement was an infringement on the rights of individuals.

He boasts with the current development in the country, using the facilities at the UPTH to express his confidence that soon health workers would not have any reason to travel outside to seek greener pastures..

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