The Medical and Dental Consultants Affiliation of Nigeria (MDCAN) on Friday mentioned solely 6,000 consultants are left within the nation.
The president of the affiliation, Prof. Muhammad Mohammad, disclosed this through the affiliation’s Nationwide Govt Council (NEC) Assembly in Ilorin, Kwara State.
The assembly was themed, “Coverage Making for High quality Healthcare Companies: Partaking Coverage Makers for High quality Healthcare Supply”.
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Mohammad defined that 6,000 consultants stay as of February 2024, lamenting that information confirmed that about 1,300 consultants left nation within the final 5 years.
He lamented that the variety of the consultants will proceed to dwindle because the retirement age for medical consultants is 60 years.
“About 1,700 consultants are above 55 years of age.Which means that within the subsequent 5 years, they will go away the providers for retirement,” he mentioned.
Mohammed emphasised that the variety of consultants would proceed to scale back, so long as the nation produces just one or two every year.
“So you may see that the alternative can not sustain with the loss from ‘Japa’ syndrome and from retirement,” he mentioned.
Mohammad appealed to the federal government in any respect tiers to make sure medical lecturers are positioned on the Consolidated Medical Wage Construction (CONMESS) to handle the disparities of their emoluments and temptation to embrace the ‘japa’ syndrome.
The Kwara State’s Commissioner for Well being, Dr Amina El-Imam, mentioned the theme of the NEC assembly was apt, noting that applicable insurance policies have been important to help the federal government in delivering high quality healthcare to residents.
The visitor speaker, Dr Amos Magaji, the lawmaker representing Zangon Kataf/Jaba Federal Constituency of Kaduna State within the Nationwide Meeting, underscored the significance of coverage making in healthcare supply.
Equally, Prof. Tanimola Akande, a public well being advisor on the College of Ilorin Instructing Hospital (UITH), suggested docs to deal with their well being and well-being.
He underscored the necessity for self-care, common and complete examinations and train.
Earlier, the chairman of the native organising committee of MDCAN-NEC assembly, Prof Kazeem Ibrahim mentioned innumerable insurance policies have been formulated previously with out vital influence on the well being of many susceptible residents.
Ibrahim famous that the assembly would proffer options to the challenges, in addition to the ‘japa’ syndrome, pushing well being staff emigrate from the nation attributable to abysmal working situations.
