President of National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN), Prof. Akin Osibogun, has explained why Nigerian young doctors are leaving the country in droves.

At a briefing at Ijanikin, Lagos, to announce the college’s 40th convocation ceremony holding September 15, he lamented that Nigeria already has a shortage of doctors and therefore cannot fold its arms and allow the trend to continue.

According to him, certain push and pull factors were responsible for the mass exodus of the medical personnel to developed world. He listed some of the factors as lack of job satisfaction, poor remuneration, shortage of medics in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia and other developed nations.

“We have shortage of doctors in Nigeria and the situation is being compounded by this migration of doctors. Those countries pulling out doctors are providing them incentives such as better pay and conditions of service.

“We also consider our work environment. If you have the skills and training but you don’t have the necessary equipment to work with, you will be frustrated as a doctor watching your patients die. The job satisfaction has to be there for you to stay on it. Good remuneration is also very important to keep our doctors in Nigeria. These are some of the issues these young doctors disclose to us when we engage them.

“On our part, we are focused on training more doctors to become specialists and consultants so that even when some leave we will still have a significant number in Nigeria.

“But training more has to begin from the medical school. The prolonged strike by members of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) makes it unlikely that we will graduate any doctor this year. And we might not have house officers next year, meaning there won’t be medical youth corps member in 2024 and there won’t be any doctor to enrol in our residency programme,” he said.

He announced that the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Afe Babalola would on the convocation day be awarded a Honorary Fellowship, having contributed to the development of postgraduate medical education in Nigeria and health care generally.

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