The brain drain continues unabated: UK Med Council Registers 200 Nigerian Physicians in May & April, 2021

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Those who do not appreciate their jewels and fine wines are condemned to lose them to more discerning connoisseurs.--Ola Kassim MD

Always appreciate what you have before it's gone.---Annonymous

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“You finish from school and go to NYSC and after eight years of medical school, one year of housemanship during NYSC, someone pays you N80,000 when you know you can earn better with that certificate in another country. If Nigeria had enough incentive, work/life balance, people would not leave.”

Also speaking with our correspondent, National Association of Resident Doctors which comprises 40 per cent of Nigeria’s doctors said the government was not serious about the welfare of doctors.

In a chat with our correspondent on Tuesday, Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, said lawmakers earn millions in allowances but doctors who save lives are given a pittance.

The NARD President stated, “Nigerian doctors are desperate to leave because we have not been paid for five months and we have bills to pay. We lost 19 doctors during Covid-19 and yet no insurance claims have been paid to the families.

“They pay N5,000 hazard allowance to doctors who get infected with Covid-19 or HIV in the course of their job. They pay lawmakers millions for allowances and pay doctors N170,000 per month.

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UK Med Council Registers 200 Nigerian Physicians  in May & April, 2021



The General Medical Council which licenses and maintains the official register of medical practitioners in the United Kingdom licensed at least 200 Nigerian doctors in April and May alone, records show.

This implies that at least three Nigerian doctors were licensed per day in April and May 2021 despite a new policy by the UK government in February to discourage the aggressive recruitment of doctors from 47 developing countries facing a shortage of doctors at home, including Nigeria.

Our correspondent, who has monitored the website of the GMC in the last 10 months, observed that the number of Nigerian trained doctors practising in the UK rose to 8,384 from 7,870, a difference of 514.

Checks showed that the average number of Nigerian trained doctors in the UK rose from an average of 1.3 per day in between July and December 2020 to 3.3 per day in April and May 2021.

Between June 7 and June 8, 2020 – a space of 24 hours – about seven Nigerian trained doctors were licensed by the UK.

Nigeria has the third highest number of foreign doctors working in the UK after India and Pakistan.

However, Nigeria suffers a shortage of doctors.

Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria puts the total number of registered doctors in Nigeria at 74,543 for the country’s population of about 200 million.

This puts the doctor-patient ratio in the country at 1:3,500.

This falls far below the World Health Organisation’s recommendation of 1:600.

A poll by NOI in 2018 also showed that 88 per cent of Nigerian doctors are considering work opportunities abroad, but experts say the figure may be higher due to the rising insecurity and economic crunch.

Other popular destinations for Nigeria trained doctors include United States, Canada, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Australia.

Speaking with our correspondent, President of Nigerian Doctors in the UK, Seun Yusuf, said the number of Nigerian doctors migrating would continue to increase as long as doctors were not well paid and hospitals lacked equipment.

Yusuf said the number of Nigeria trained doctors that migrated from Nigeria to other countries in the last three years would be about 6,000, but some had yet to complete their exams and thus had not been licensed.

She added, “In the last three years, more than 6,000 doctors would have left Nigeria to different places but because the UK is the easiest place, the pathway becomes very easy so the UK gets a higher percentage of Nigerian doctors migrating. Some people are still in the UK writing their exams and they are not included in these statistics.”

When asked why doctors were leaving, Yusuf stated, “The doctors who finish school struggle to get house job placement and they don’t get paid. Imagine attending school for eight years and you don’t get a job on time and when you get it, they don’t pay you?

“You finish from school and go to NYSC and after eight years of medical school, one year of housemanship during NYSC, someone pays you N80,000 when you know you can earn better with that certificate in another country. If Nigeria had enough incentive, work/life balance, people would not leave.”

Also speaking with our correspondent, National Association of Resident Doctors which comprises 40 per cent of Nigeria’s doctors said the government was not serious about the welfare of doctors.

In a chat with our correspondent on Tuesday, Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, said lawmakers earn millions in allowances but doctors who save lives are given a pittance.

The NARD President stated, “Nigerian doctors are desperate to leave because we have not been paid for five months and we have bills to pay. We lost 19 doctors during Covid-19 and yet no insurance claims have been paid to the families.

“They pay N5,000 hazard allowance to doctors who get infected with Covid-19 or HIV in the course of their job. They pay lawmakers millions for allowances and pay doctors N170,000 per month.”

 

[Imperial]

Dr 

This’s a very sad news !

Above is loss to the UK only excluding those emigrating to the US, Canada and other countries . 

We probably don’t graduate more 200 doctors ( on average ) a month in our various medical schools . 

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[Wharf A. Snake]

Olola Kassim,

You and your set showed the way that others are following. There must be a special place in hell for anyone who studied medicine in Nigeria that was paid for by the Nigerian people to then abscond. Such people shall never know peace. 

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Didn't the Minister of Labor, Ngige say that Nigeria has too many Doctors?

It's natural for people to emigrate to where they are appreciated.

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Subject: Re: The brain drain continues unabated: UK Med Council Registers 200 Nigerian Physicians in May & April, 2021

 

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[Stevek]

“You and your set showed the way that others are following. There must be a special place in hell for anyone who studied medicine in Nigeria that was paid for by the Nigerian people to then abscond. Such people shall never know peace.“ - Wharfie

My friend Wharfie,

Now, you have me totally confused about two things you wrote above.

1) Are you saying that those who followed the first person to commit the same act are less guilty, if the first person is guilty of anything all, or should be exonerated for just following! Not that I am holding anything against Zik’s set, who led the way.

2) When I was leaving to come to the US for my education, my mates from Federal School of Science who were doing medicine in UI and elsewhere in Nigeria were not on government scholarship, although I must admit that there must have been some on government scholarship. Or are you saying that, unlike any other disciplines of study in the Nigerian universities at that time, all medical students could only study on government scholarship while students in all other disciplines paid their own way?

And why that special place in Hell for people that did exactly what everybody reading this did - as a right that is much greater than the Nigerian brand of Freedom of Speech to undermine a legitimately elected government - and not for the ones (some of whom are still our personal friends that we wish well) that stayed back and looted that country into penury?

Just asking…

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NB: The comments below assume that the statement attributed to

former President Obasanjo is authentic and not just made up

by mischief makers.

Dear All:

Diplomacy is not one of Baba Obasanjo's strong suits..

He could easily just have said they are misguided and that they have not

 considered the full ramifications of what they are contemplating.

Regardless, I am glad he finally broke his silence in a manner that

no reasonable Nigerian would doubt his position on how Nigeria

could be rescued from the edge of the precipice she was heading for.

Even though Nigeria is an extremely troubled nation, breaking her up

would only make things worse not just for the major ethnic groups

but for the hundreds of other minority ethnic groups.

Would the new nations start paying the pensions of those ageing

retired and soon to be retired civil servants and other employees in

FGN owned corporations, tertiary health care centers and universities?

Would their share of federal assets be enough to offset their share of the

FGN's cumulative debt burden, both domestic and foreign?

Would the new nations Biafra/Oduduwa etc. after settling the thorny issues

about where to locate their capital cities, have sufficient funds to build

new infrastructure that would be required for these new capital cities?

Just a few examples to contemplate!

And after all is said and done--on what legal basis would such 'balkanization'

stand?

Bye,

Ola

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[Wharf A. Snake]

My friend SteveK;

Zik came back to Nigeria after studying abroad. By the way his education was not paid for by the Nigerian people.

I am talking particularly about medical doctors. Do you know what it costs to train a medical student? Check the school fees for American medical schools and even American medical schools are still subsidized by the government. 

Nigeria spent a heap of money training medical doctors who then turn around and abscond. Though the medical students are ill trained but that is a good reason for those like the hypocrite Olola Kassim who took advantage of our largesse and absconded and now laments the brain drain. What a crazy hypocrite!

Ejo ni Mushin - Prince 

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[Wharf A. Snake]

No he misspoke and corrected it the next time he gave interviews 

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[Stevek]

Wharfie,

Yeah, Zik came back but how many of his classmates at Howard, Lincoln, and Columbia got to be as rich as he was, especially, those who were fellow Nigerians and stayed behind? I think Adeboye was one of them!😂

But my point is that training cost of medical students in Nigeria is a much more recent phenomenon; unless for those who were fortunate to obtain scholarships. And those would be like every other student in any other discipline.

Besides, didn’t our good friend provide very good and valuable service to our fatherland when he served as NIDO-A with your other good friends, JUI and the Texas reptilian pressure cooker dude?

Frankly, even if  the Olola was trained with Nigerian money, it wasn’t taxpayer money because nobody pays taxes in Nigeria. It would have been my N’Delta oil money that would have been stolen by the politician, anyway!😅

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Wharfy:

What a nerve?

I think one of the reasons the young doctors are leaving is because they get to read

the abuses you constantly hurl on their profession--calling them quirks, killers and butchers.

You carry a lot of the blame for why they are departing Nigeria.

I have never personally discouraged  any young Nigerian physician who wishes to emigrate

to any other country in the world either to pursue postgraduate studies or to practice,

raise his or her kids and live out his or her entire life.

I have always mentored and assisted Nigerian physicians who wish to emigrate both before

and upon their arrival--letting them know about the benefits and the constraints awaiting them

when they finally arrive at their destinations

If our Almighty God had wished that all Homo sapiens should live all of their lives in places

where they were born we would still all be living in that little corner of East Africa called the

cradle of mankind.

Your true "Home is where your taxes are"--OKQuincy 1984

My concern is the increasing mass migration--necessitated  the poor working conditions

 remuneration and benefits for Nigerian physicians!

You get what you give!

Bye,

Ola

[Joseph Onuorah]

My opinion on this Nigerian-physician-migration thing is probably a rejected one by most on this forum especially being that we no longer evaluate issues with open mind but mostly based on who and which group one belongs to. A sad situation and one that has made ALL of us, the “educated”, especially those in diaspora, a devalued bunch. Nonetheless, here is my opinion, which has been expressed several times and remains so:

Using how much money a physician makes as the key measure of where to practice misses the main reason for being a physician. Sure, like every professional, a physician has to make a living. However, as I recently told a cousin, a physician who cannot make a “descent” living anywhere in the world, with only his or her “stethoscope” may want to re-evaluate the reasons for going into medical school and/or even whether he or she learned the “art of medicine”, which is a critical factor for success.

USA, European physicians and many others, did not migrate, enmasse, to other countries in search of a better pay, good conditions of work, etc. They stayed and fought to improve things for them, for future practitioners and for their societies. Such fight include becoming politicians, membership in key associations, activists, etc, with a goal of making and forcing changes; NOT fighting to disintegrate their country! A big difference! No wonder they ultimately win even as some may lose their lives fighting. They are who created and endowed what we now run to take advantage of, not any God. And believe me, it wasn’t an easy fight. Ask, read, … as I have! 

Again, one can say so about other professions: accountants, nurses, engineers, pharmacists, attorneys, janitors, tax drivers, etc, who now live and “waste” in foreign nations while waiting for some God to send angels to go clean things in Nigeria.. before their celebrated and honored landing. (The “wasting” part mainly relate to those who refuse to find peace and fulfillment where they live. A problem for most Nigerians who rarely commit to a place they migrate to and who do not form a community wherever they migrate to and thus live in limbo! Then upon realizing that such heavenly intervention ain’t happening, many have now sold their “souls” to Trumpism-type narrative with the hope that things falling apart would provide an opening for that envisaged celebrated return to decorated offices loaded with young ladies & boys who will hail them as the chosen ones and ready to provide whatever services they want.

As some already noted, for those physicians and other professionals who studied with government or even private scholarships from Nigeria, and joining in this chorus of “things are hard”, I suggest that you ask your fellow practitioners, from other countries, how they feel about it. I bet they would tell you that your approach is not how they “paid back”! 

My point remains: Yes, things are hard in Nigeria and in fact, all over Africa, but this idea that emigration is the solution is misguided, selfish and should not be recommended as something good for any nation. Just as this idea that disintegration of the country is the solution. It is not! 

So who would then clean the nation if the ones who supposedly learned pack and go away? Or refuse to pack and go back? Again, not going back as a personal decision, is okay but then why join in this chorus of blaming them? Just relax and enjoy whatever it is you find where you now live.

Where in the word has such disintegration led to a better situation. I read the examples that some have given and shook my head because they do not even understand the details of what occurred prior and after. A few that did well had more than what we have.

Lo, one can do what one wants but all these excuses and generalizations present us all as failures and losers. At least be honest about why you chose to be here instead of all these blame “them”. For me, I am not here in diaspora because anyone in Nigeria stopped me from returning or that “things were hard”! I chose to be here due to personal reasons that include having a family. The hope that such would be managed with time no doubt became complicated by other factors such as the current security situation in the country and continued lack of competent medical care, which I would not want to expose my relatively young children to. Yet, I refuse to accept this self-serving game of badmouthing and blaming “them”, which most of my colleagues would consider as an excuse. I can hear some asking me this: what are you doing or have you done about the situation you complain about? 

Have a good day!

Joe. 

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[Wharf A. Snake]

“ I think one of the reasons the young doctors are leaving is because they get to read

the abuses you constantly hurl on their profession--calling them quirks, killers and butchers.

”

It is not a lie. They are morticians 

Ejo ni Mushin - Prince 

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monamona ni ologun ngbe, ologun to ba gbe paramole o gbe iyonu.

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[Afis]

What kind of yeye Ekpe be this?

Baba Wharfy ran from Naija and sat kuleh for ‘Morika, he’s now cursing those who left for the same reason he ran.
That Ekpe can’t work, and if it does it will round you up, man.

Afis

“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse 81.

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Olola Kassim,

[Wharf A. Snake]

Alagba Afis,

That ekpe applies only to medical doctors. You are safe from the ekpe. So no need to faraya.

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What kind of yeye Ekpe be this?

[Afis]

🤣🤣🤣

Afis

“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse 81.

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Alagba Afis,

[JEROME NIANG YAKUBU]

Yes, Yes, Yes.

OBASANJO IS RIGHT!!!

Those calling for Biafra or Oduduwa secession are IDIOTICALLY IDIOTIC IDIOTS.

Wallahi plus the Tallahi.

Their 'upstairs' need rewiring.

Have they forgotten that they can NEVER USURP all the INFRASTRUCTURES belonging EQUALLY to all other tribes in Nigeria located in their regions without fighting a very serious war to keep them?

Please Google Alleppo, Syria, see pictures and come back to tell me that you are still ready to fight a war against the rest of us die-hard NIGERIANS.

And to y'all FOOLISHLY FOOLISH FOOLS who are still bent on secession, please make sure your youths and women are willing to be SUICIDE BOMBERS, because we have thousands of ALMAJIRIS lined up in the north willing and ready to blow themselves up in other to make sure no fools successfully usurp all that rightfully and EQUALLY belong to them in every regions of Nigeria.

We'll see.

Na JNYakubu.say so, 

Go ahead,, BITE ME.

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[Baduba54]

Some Nigerian doctors did not leave Nigeria but become politicians;- senators Reps, governors, local government chairmen, etc.

That too is a kind of loss, a kind of drain.

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[JEROME NIANG YAKUBU]

Yes, Yes, Yes.

OBASANJO IS RIGHT!!!

Those calling for Biafra or Oduduwa secession are IDIOTICALLY IDIOTIC IDIOTS.

Wallahi plus the Tallahi.

Their 'upstairs' need some rewiring.

Have they forgotten that they can NEVER USURP all the INFRASTRUCTURES belonging EQUALLY to all other tribes in Nigeria that are located in their regions without fighting a very serious war to keep them?

Please Google Alleppo, Syria, see pictures of irreparable disaster and come back to tell me that you are still ready to fight a war against the rest of us die-hard NIGERIANS, over 100 tribes of us.

And to y'all FOOLISHLY FOOLISH FOOLS who are still bent on secession, please make sure your youths and women are willing to be SUICIDE BOMBERS, because we have thousands of ALMAJIRIS lined up in the north already,  willing and ready to blow themselves up in other to make sure no fools successfully usurp all that rightfully and EQUALLY belong to them in every regions of Nigeria. SURELY, THEY WILL EACH TAKE A FEW OF YOU WITH THEM WHEN THEY GO.

Ask the Iraqis how effective the suicide BOMBERS were.

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