Parliament approved the bill to force doctors to work for 5 years before traveling abroad
Parliament approved the bill to force doctors to work for 5 years before traveling abroad
The House of Representatives has approved a bill that plans to compel doctors to spend five years in Nigeria before being allowed to work abroad.
A member of the APC House of Representatives from Lagos, Ganiyu Johnson, sponsored the bill seeking to amend the Doctors Act 2004.
This incident is a new thing that can lead to a new conflict between the Federal Government and the Association of Doctors NMA.
Until now, at least two thousand doctors leave the country every year in the name of summer.
In addition, Nigerian medical experts are far away from European countries and their relatives in the Middle East, where they are the new centers of doctors who are saying that they are not happy in the country at the moment.
However, after spending a long time grumbling in the corner of the room, the Nigerian community is looking for a solution with a law that forces all doctors in the country to spend five years working before getting permission to work there in foreign countries. .
The law that passed the second stage of the parliament, has a big goal of ending the migration of doctors into the country which is lagging behind in the health issue.
Despite the number of medical schools, until now the number of doctors in the country is not more than 25 thousand in Nigeria which has 200 million people.
The new law started to attract controversy, where the National Medical Association NMA said, it should be taken to the market.
The NMA said that instead of blaming the dog for the dust, it should be looked at the oil that caused the problem from the beginning.
To improve the working system or to try to twist the neck of the summer workers, about sixty percent of the doctors in the country in the palace of the Association of Junior Doctors of the country are looking for a way out with the aim of improving the life and future of Nigerian doctors.
So far, one doctor is looking at 30 thousand patients in the South of the country, while the number is 45 thousand in the North of the country.