NIGERIAN DOCTORS – LET THEM GO

Why are we crying that our doctors are going? Mbok let them go abeg, let them go and try themselves there and see if they can be better trained and imbibe international standards of practice, no be the kind thing we are seeing here.
Come and see them as they lined up somewhere in Abuja to be doing exam — or is it test — to get jobs in Saudi Arabia. Come and see the suits and the shoes. You will really pity us in this country.

Seriously, with one of the worst doctor-patient ratios in the world, we should not be encouraging the few we have to leave. We should be making the operating environment much saner to enable them to practise their art of saving lives. But if we are waiting for that one, Molue go leave Lagos for Sambisa come back. We will still dey wait.

I see them as ambassadors; let them go out there and learn and see how intelligent people do things. I am sure they will come back and try to implement such things here. This is what happened during the first wave of brain drain when they all went to Saudi Arabia.

My uncle in-law, Dr Olude, was the first to go. He was a Commissioner for Health in Lagos and when this same Buhari came to take power, they arrested him and threw him inside cell o, just because he served. When they released him, uncle ‘japa’. Straight to Saudi, then Kuwait and retired in UAE. When he came back, he moved straight to Babcock where he taught till he died.

He brought back knowledge. That is my point. We are kuku still dying, so what is left. Let them go, we no go die finish. Native Doctors will fill the gap. Let them go and learn and come back.
While we are at it, let the Minister of Health follow apply, make he go. Ngige too make he go. I don tire.