Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, head of the federal civil service, has advised the Nigerian Medical Association to make sure that young resident doctors are counseled as a remedy for the ongoing brain drain caused by young medical doctors looking for greener pastures abroad.
The Nigerian government had done a lot for them by sponsoring their education, she emphasized, adding that they needed to be reminded that life was not always a bed of roses.
This was said by Dr. Yemi-Esan during the NMA’s courtesy visit to Abuja.
In a statement on Wednesday by M. A. Ahmed, the Deputy Director, Communications, the HoS was said to have expressed fear that the rate at which resident doctors travelled abroad to practice without serving the country was a cause for concern, stating that the Nigerian Medical Association was a good platform to counsel them. She continued by saying that due to their sheer numbers, Nigerian doctors were less expensive abroad than their counterparts from other nations.
While responding to their demands of enhanced hazard allowances, Dr Yemi-Esan enjoined them to be moderate and enquired if the Resident Doctors, who were in public corporations were also doing dangerous job. She continued by saying that the government had done a lot for them and admonished them to be reasonable in their demands in order to preserve the government’s finances and, most importantly, to enhance the polity.
Earlier, the President of the NMA, Dr Uche Ojinmah, congratulated Dr Yemi-Esan for her reformative achievements in positively repositioning the Federal Civil Service for higher performance and national economic progress.
