Professor Ali Pate, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare
Brain drain: Minister confirms plans to engage retired doctors, others
Professor Ali Pate, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, announced on Saturday in Abuja that the Federal Government has established arrangements to re-hire retired medical professionals in non-administrative roles through contractual agreements.
He shared this information with reporters during a discussion following his visit to the National Hospital in Abuja.
This initiative aims to address the human resource shortage in the health sector, a challenge exacerbated by factors such as the significant loss of clinical personnel due to reasons like the ‘brain drain.’
“The recent circular essentially provided for medical providers who are in non-administrative positions, that is those who are in clinical positions to be re-engaged in a contract basis on the same terms as they were so that we do not lose the few that are remaining.
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“That will go a long way in reducing the stress on the remaining health workforce.
“This hospital, for instance, we have had about 15 anaesthesiologists over the last several years, the last few months alone many have gone.
“We have six that are remaining, some of them are about to leave and we have to make sure that doesn’t happen.
“Whatever the reason, if they are available, we should use them to provide the services that Nigerians deserve. That is our focus and that’s what we are going to do,” he said.
Pate said that in the health sector, human resources is one of the most important and not the building or equipment alone.
According to him, there are thousands of health workers all over Nigeria who are working very hard, sometimes in difficult circumstances to provide services to Nigerians.
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