{"id":214099,"date":"2022-09-02T07:29:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T06:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=214099"},"modified":"2022-09-02T07:29:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T06:29:41","slug":"nma-reveals-why-doctors-are-leaving-nigeria-in-droves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/09\/02\/nma-reveals-why-doctors-are-leaving-nigeria-in-droves\/","title":{"rendered":"NMA reveals why Doctors are leaving Nigeria in droves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has disclosed that poor salaries and a lack of a conducive working environment forced many medical doctors and health workers to leave Nigeria for other countries with better remuneration.<\/p>\n<p>This was made known by the\u00a0NMA National President, Dr Uche Ojinmah in an interview with newsmen on Thursday during the opening ceremony of the 2022 National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the association held in Gombe.<\/p>\n<p>He said doctors in Nigeria are underpaid and lack the basic equipment and conducive environment to work, hence they choose to leave the country for greener pastures, a development that causes the shortage of manpower in the country\u2019s health sector.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ojinmah also decried the underfunding of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/05\/19\/buhari-signs-national-health-authority-bill-into-law\/\">healthcare facilities<\/a> by the Nigerian government, decrying that the country is yet to implement the 2001 Abuja declaration that recommended the allocation of 15 per cent of the budget to the health sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2001, all the heads of states in Africa gathered in Abuja and held a meeting on how to improve the health sector. And at the end, they had a declaration that 15 per cent of the annual budget of every nation should be dedicated to health care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, since that time, Nigeria, the country that hosted the meeting could not implement that declaration. 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