Professor Alphonsus Nwosu, the Nigerian health minister, made a commitment to act. He declared, “We will definitely address the issue of doctors and nurses quitting in large numbers to take jobs in Europe and North America.

However, unless the government was willing to make significant investments in the health sector, Mrs. Stella Ekpendu, the head of the school of nursing at the University College Hospital in Ibadan, claimed that there was little the government could do to stop the exodus to wealthy nations.

“The exodus of nurses, for example, from Nigeria to abroad, will not stop until the government addresses the issue of poor salary and the decay in the Nigerian health sector,” she said.

According to reports, foreign embassies in Nigeria, particularly those of Britain, the United States, and Saudi Arabia, receive on a weekly basis 20 to 25 verification requests from Nigerian nurses wishing to migrate abroad. This translates into about 1196 applications a year.

Given the poor pay at home, this is hardly surprising. An average nurse in Britain earns £15 000 ($22 900; €23 400) a year, whereas the best-paid nurses in Nigeria earn about 300 000 naira (£1700; $2500; €2600) a year, though most earn between 60 000 and 120 000 naira.

Nigeria is certainly not the only African nation losing medical personnel to industrialized nations. Almost all of the nations of Africa are impacted.

Over 2000 African nurses left their home countries to work in Britain during the 12-month period ending in March 2002, according to statistics from the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Great Britain.

Zimbabwe lost 473 nurses, and South Africa lost 2114 nurses and midwives to Britain. Nigeria, which lost 432 nurses to Britain (up from 347 in 2000–2001), Ghana (195, up from 140), Zambia (183, up from 88), and Kenya are among African nations that have lost nurses to Britain (155, up from 50).

However, as noted by Dejene Aredo, an economist at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, other professionals are also impacted by migration from the continent to affluent nations.

According to him, up to 20 000 experts leave Africa each year to work in wealthy nations. Because its highly skilled individuals are leaving the country in search of employment, he calculated the economic loss at roughly $4 billion annually.

He said,  “It is a concern because there is a tremendous personnel shortfall in emerging countries,” he continued.

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But like similar actions in the past, this latest industrial dispute involving the resident doctors is targeted at better remunerations and residency training.

Expectedly those at the receiving end of the impasse between the aggrieved doctors and the State Government are the patients.

Under normal working conditions, BMSH receives almost 200 patients daily.

But currently, many patients are now forced to seek medical care at private hospitals at higher financial cost.

Meanwhile, the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Doctor Paul Kua is appealing to the striking doctors not to drag the industrial action any further to give room for negotiations.

The leadership of the BMSH branch of Association of Resident Doctors was unavailable for comment.

But if all works according to plan, members of the body are expected back at work on Friday this week.

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This is because the Federal government has cleared the backlog of salaries owed the various medical bodies.

The Joint health sector unions of the University College Hospital Ibadan, had issued a seven day ultimatum to the federal government to pay all outstanding salaries or risk a total indefinite strike scheduled to commence on the 3rd of January

Activities at the Health facility in Ibadan were normal this Tuesday as Nigerians seeking medical services heaved a sigh of relief.

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According to Punch, NARD gave the government two weeks to resolve all pending issues in the health sector or face a medical doctors strike at the end of the month. The president of the association, Dr John Onyebueze, while speaking with journalists at the end of NARD’s 26th Annual General Meeting in Enugu, disclosed the ultimatum.

Stating the many issues plaguing the health sector, Dr Onyebueze listed unpaid salaries, and said he could not guarantee industrial harmony in the health sector if there was no change by the end of September, 2016.

He also urged the government to implement its agreement with health workers, which included upgrading the infrastructure in teaching hospitals, taking urgent action against poliomyelitis and Lassa fever, and the immediate release and implementation of the report on the residency training programme.

He also asked: “Are you talking about the rickety beds in the accident and emergency wards? We do not even have gloves and emergency tools. We do not have pens to write and make prescriptions. We are saying that this thing must not continue.” The association also demanded that the government ensures fast track action on the bailout funds needed by the tertiary health institutions in the country, as previously agreed, and ensure the migration of all NARD members to the IPPIS platform.

“Centers that are not deducting pension contributions from our members should immediately commence, while all centers should ensure full remittance of deducted contributions of our members to the Pension Fund Administrators.”

Also the ‘no work no pay’ rule, which is been currently being applied by the federal ministry of health, did not sit well with association and was not in line with extant labor laws, according to Dr Onyebueze. Meanwhile, ASUU is said not to be be happy that the federal government reneged on the 2009 agreement it reached with the union.

The body has threatened to embark on industrial action on October 2nd. It is important to note that this has happened several times since 2009. And each time the students are left to bear the brunt, staying away from their institutions for many months and losing academic sessions.

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Dr Friday Omolei, Chairman of the state chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and Secretary, Dr Peter Attah said at a news briefing on Friday in Lafia.

The doctors said that the strike was due to alleged government failure to correct their salaries in tandem with the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS).

according toreports  the association had issued a one-week strike notice to the state government on May 26.

Omolei said the association took the “painful” decision, as the government had failed to respond to the doctors demand since 2014.

The chairman said that the association was open to dialogue, but would not return to work until its demands are met.

“From January 2016 till date, there has been mass exodus of doctors from the employment of Nasarawa state government due to poor remuneration and high tax regime.

“So far, 43 doctors have left since January this year while 17 others have applied to disengage from the state government employment,” he said.

NAN reports that other issues that prompted the strike include non promotion of some doctor for upward of 14 years, and their demand for allocation of 15 per cent of the state budget to the health sector.

The state Commissioner of Health, Dr Daniel Iya, who was not in his office as at the time of filing the report, did not respond to calls and text messages on his mobile phone.

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TVCE (LAGOS) – The Lagos State Government on Friday confirmed two more cases of Lassa fever in the state with one of the victims already dead.

The development brought the number of Lassa fever cases in the state to three, including the index case at Ahmaddiya Hospital in Ijaiye/Ojokoro part of the state.

Briefing newsmen on Friday, Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris, said the index case was responding to treatment at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).

The second victim, he said, is a 36-year-old lady; an indigene of Kogi State who was first discovered at Naval Reference Hospital, Ojo on January 18 before she was referred to Mainland Hospital the same day and has since been receiving antiviral medication.

Idris said yesterday that her condition was stable and ambulating.

The third case, he said, died because he presented late.

He is said to be a 51-year-old resident of Ilasan Leki and indigene of Edo State where he attended a wedding ceremony on December 28, last year.

He was initially admitted at Divine Medical Centre in Ikoyi on January 12, this year, but died at 2 pm the same day before the result of the laboratory test that confirmed him positive was received.

His corpse has been kept in the morgue in a leakproof body bag and was was to be buried yesterday, after due consultations with his family.

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TVCE  MOVIE – Producer and maker of the controversial film ’93 days’ Steve Gukas has described as false and malicious, the allegation by one Dr Anna Adadevoh that 93 Days, a film on the deadly Ebola virus, is a misrepresentation of facts.

Gukas who said the claims were a calculated attempt to sabotage the film, maintained that “93 Days is not the biopic of anyone individual and has never claimed to be the story of Doctor Stella Adadevoh.”

Anna Adadevoh had in a letter dated January 3, 2016, on behalf of the Cardoso and Adadevoh families said they are distancing themselves from the movie purportedly dedicated to late Dr.Ameyo,  as it is a misrepresentation of the sacrifice the late Dr Adadevoh paid with her life. They also frowned against the producer’s going into the personal medical file of the deceased doctor.

But Gukas maintained that contrary to the allegations by Dr Anna Adadevoh, his production company had enlisted the help of the Adadevoh and Cardoso families from day one.

“They gave their comments on the script and their amendments were incorporated into the final script. Further, the late Stella Adadevoh’s son, Bankole Cardoso, consented to the making of the film and to being portrayed in the film. Not only did he consent, he was kind enough to provide us with information concerning his late mother’s actions during those trying times. The facts provided by him proved useful in the development of the script and we have his interview on film should anyone require further proof. In essence, the story of Dr Stella Adadevoh depicted in the film was obtained partly from facts provided to us by the Adadevoh and Cardoso families and more importantly by her son, Bankole Cardoso.”

According to the filmmaker, his company does not require anyone’s consent to make the film since it has a constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of speech and expression.

“For us, this presented a more universal story of human courage, dedication and sacrifice that may inspire our great country and its people. Ours is a pride story that shows Nigeria at one of its finest hours and casts our country in a positive light around the world. To ensure the universal appeal of the film, we enlisted, at great cost, Nigerian and International actors to feature in the film. Amongst these were Danny Glover, Keppy Ekpeyong and Bimbo Akintola,” said the filmmaker.

Gukas also said the matters portrayed in the film were derived from facts that are well within the public domain, while others were provided by those privy to the said facts. “For instance, we obtained additional information from interviews with the survivors of those who lost loved ones, volunteer doctors and nurses as well as officials of the Lagos State Ministry of Health.

“To honour those protagonists of the Ebola story, it was essential for us that the film be, as much as possible, an accurate, genuine and sincere record of the facts relating to the country’s efforts to fight the disease. Infact, that was the only way of doing justice to those brave individuals (and foreigners) who had given so much in the service of the country…”

He said he is aware that Dr Anna Adadevoh and others within the family are involved in another film project on the Ebola story and as such are attempting to derail 93 Days in the misguided belief that to do so would ensure the success of their film.

“It is plainly wrong for these people to try and monopolize the Ebola story exclusively for themselves by trying to prevent the making and release of a film that so many of the people concerned have supported and contributed to.

“Our film features many of the people who were in the vanguard of the fight against the terrible disease. Many of these people lost loved ones and made other sacrifices still unknown to a majority of Nigerians.  They have supported the film and want their story told and it is only fair that their stories are told,” he said.

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