{"id":110266,"date":"2019-04-24T11:42:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T10:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=110266"},"modified":"2019-04-24T11:43:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T10:43:26","slug":"medical-doctors-free-to-leave-nigeria-we-have-surplus-ngige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=110266","title":{"rendered":"Medical doctors free to leave Nigeria, we have surplus – Ngige"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mr. Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, has stated that he is not bothered about medical doctors leaving Nigeria, to practice outside the country.<\/p>\n

Ngige who was a guest on Channels TV Sunrise Daily, said the practice is not alien to Nigeria, because he was taught by Indians in secondary school.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m Not Worried, We Have Surplus (Doctors), if we have a surplus, we export. I was taught Biology and Chemistry by Indian teachers in my secondary school days.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are surplus in their country. We have a surplus in the medical profession in our country. I can tell you this. It is my area, we have excess. We have enough, more than enough, quote me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ngige, when asked if nothing was wrong, owing to his position as a qualified medical doctor, said there was nothing wrong in their choice to practise overseas, at the detriment of Nigeria\u2019s health sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nothing wrong, they go out to sharpen their skills, earn money and send them back home here. Yes, we have foreign exchange earnings from them, not from oil.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose guys go there, they are better trained because of the facilities they have there. Eventually, I know a couple of them who practise abroad but set up medical centres back home. They have CAT scan, MRI scan which even the government hospitals cannot maintain. So, I don\u2019t see any loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrain drain will only be inimical when for instance neurosurgeons travel and we don\u2019t have neurosurgeons here,\u201d Ngige added.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mr. Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, has stated that he is not bothered about medical doctors leaving Nigeria, to practice outside the country. Ngige who was a guest on Channels TV Sunrise Daily, said the practice is not alien to Nigeria, because he was taught by Indians in secondary school. \u201cI\u2019m Not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[9786,7754],"class_list":["post-110266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","tag-ngige","tag-residents-doctors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}