The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, has said that with the migration of doctors abroad the nation was well short of the recommended ratio of one doctor to 600 patients by the World Health Organization.
President of NARD, Dr. Emeke Orji in a statement at the weekend revealed that It is now a ratio of one doctor to 10,000 patients in the country.
He disclosed that the situation might get worse as 4,000 of its members are ready to join their colleagues abroad in search of better welfare packages, adding that the situation is as a result of government’s nonchalant attitude to members.
Part of his statement reads
There are several reasons why people can decide to leave their counties or migrate to other places even to move from one state to the other in the same country to work ranging from welfare services, remuneration,working condition, security and other social issues.”
“And what government should do is to try to find out why and then address it.
“That is what a serious government does, because the truth is that it is really a very serious problem in the health sector as we speak and we believe it is an emergency and that if nothing is done urgently to arrest the drift, we would come to a stage where we won’t have doctors in our hospitals.
