Brain Drain: Okowa says Nigeria has capacity to export doctors, nurses

Nigeria has the capacity to export medical officers to needy nations if available potential are adequately harnessed and planned.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa stated this while inaugurating the Collegiate System in the State’s Schools of Nursing at the College of Nursing, Agbor, Ika South council area.

Mr Okowa said rather than contemplate restricting medical practitioners from moving out of the country, more of them could be trained, and from the pool, enough would remain in the country while some could be exported to needy nations.

“Nigeria can leverage the massive demand for medical professionals trained in the country by signing bilateral agreements with foreign nations to train and export more of the professionals to those countries,” the governor stated.

He frowned upon medical professionals’ failure to demonstrate empathy toward patients, urging them to adhere to established ethics.

According to the Delta governor, Nigeria has the challenge of nurses, midwives and doctors…