{"id":195711,"date":"2022-06-13T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=195711"},"modified":"2022-06-13T07:22:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T06:22:00","slug":"nma-state-hospitals-worst-hit-by-brain-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/06\/13\/nma-state-hospitals-worst-hit-by-brain-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"NMA: State hospitals worst hit by brain drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Medical Association has lamented the deplorable state of health facilities owned by state governments.<\/p>\n<p>According to the association,\u00a0some state hospitals lack the required medical experts, equipment and could not boast of a complete department.<\/p>\n<p>The NMA President, Dr Uche Ojinmah, during an interview\u00a0on Sunday, stated that state hospitals are the worst hit by brain drain in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorkers in some<a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/03\/29\/train-attack-injured-victims-and-other-fatalities-moved-to-hospitals-kaduna-state-govt\/\"> state hospitals<\/a> are being owed several months\u2019 salary arrears. So how can they function,\u2019 Ojinmah wondered.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cStates are being neglected, some state teaching hospitals as of today cannot boast of a complete department. You go there and see only a skeletal number of people, and the state governors are happy. The doctors overwork but everybody expects them to behave well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ojinmah called on state governments to focus on improving secondary health sectors for effective management.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThat it is a state hospital doesn\u2019t mean it should be a shadow of itself; it should be able to render services to the people. That is why you come to the teaching hospitals and see somebody with malaria coming for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a dermatologist, there are some dermatological issues I should handle, not eczema, ringworm. They are not what I am trained to handle. An average person in a primary or secondary health system should be able to take care of those things if they are functional while I focus on more serious things like skin cancers, and tumours. But the primary health care system is gone. The state hospitals are overgrown with weeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only the teaching hospitals that are functioning, so everybody comes to the teaching hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While corroborating the NMA president on the neglect of state-owned hospitals, former NMA resident, Prof Mike Ogirima, said, \u201cGenerally state-owned hospitals are in deplorable state, but some states like Lagos, Delta, and Rivers have pulled greater strides in secondary health care services. The responsibilities of the state government and secondary health services have been neglected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not just to build hospitals without utilisation, but to ensure that these hospitals are functional, have the required equipment and the people deserve the best medical care. The government needs to do better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ogirima said the deplorable state of the health facilities is affecting the health workers in rendering optimum services.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the website of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom on the number of foreign doctors working in the UK showed that Nigeria is the country with the third-highest number of foreign doctors working in the UK, after India and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, as of November 2021, no fewer than 8,983 Nigerian-trained doctors were working in the UK and 727 were licensed between December 2021 and April 2022.<\/p>\n<p>That brought the total number of Nigerian doctors in the UK to 9,710.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted on the telephone, the Minister of State for Health, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora,\u00a0 requested that a text message be sent to him on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>As at the time of filing this report, he has yet to respond to the text messages sent to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Medical Association has lamented the deplorable state of health facilities owned by state governments. 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