Holding Doctors Down Won’t Stop Coming Catastrophe In Nigeria Healthcare System – NMA

The proposed five-year mandatory service requirement for medical and dental professionals has been rejected by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).

A bill that would require doctors to work in the nation for at least five years before receiving a full license passed second reading in the House of Representatives on Thursday, April 6.

The bill’s sponsor, Honourable Ganiyu Johnson (APC/Lagos), expressed concern over the widespread exodus of medical professionals leaving Nigeria in search of better opportunities abroad and stated that the bill aims to alter the Medical and Dental Practitioners Act 2004 to address the brain drain in the Nigerian health sector.

Responding to the development, Dr. Ojinma Uche, President of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), said that the proposal is not the answer to the impending catastrophe in Nigeria’s healthcare system.

“That is not the solution.” He told Channels Television’s Politics Today. You will discourage young medical students from reading Medicine. My own fear now is that it may have spooked the doctors that will be planning to leave in a year to start leaving immediately, before they are clamped down,” he stated. If you now decide that Nigerian doctors cannot have full or permanent licence for five years after graduation, automatically, you have made them house officers for five years.”

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