Why Nigeria Is Not A United Nations’ Country — Ngige

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has said that “we’re not a United Nations’ country, we are a developing country”.

Ngige was reacting to the recommendation of the United Nations and the World Health Organisation’s ratio of one doctor to 600 patients.

The Minister said: “When such figures are given I will tell them every rule has an exception. We are not yet there”.

“So, we shall make do with what we have. And when they’re saying he said yes. Surplus doctors. We have surpluses I keep on telling them that we have not deployed our medical manpower proportionately, and adequately as we should do”.

“How many doctors do we have in the rural areas and in the suburbs since everybody is in the townships, with a medical and dental council data showing 4,000 doctors every year. Before, it used to be 3000, before the private universities came a lot of them are not doing medicine, including  Afe Babalola and others”. 

“We are now in about 4000 plus, the people even trained abroad are coming back from Russia and Ukraine, and the rest of them all Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), is registering them”. 

“So, almost everybody has come to Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt to stay. And we have 10,000 primary care centres that are unmanned as at the last count.”

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