The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), umbrella body of medical doctors practicing in the country, has hinted of a possible shutdown if the government fails to address the myriads of challenges facing its members.
The association said the challenges have contributed significantly to the brain drain currently being experienced in Nigeria, and said it should not be blamed by Nigerians if it decides to take actions against the neglect the health sector suffers in the country.
The NMA President, Uche Rowland, who said this during a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday to mark the 2022 physicians’ week, called on the Nigerian government to declare a state of emergency in the country’s health sector.
Mr Rowland said Nigerian doctors are poorly paid, overworked, lack necessary work tools, “and have become a target for kidnapping.”
He said the medical profession has been taken from the lofty heights of nobility to nothingness by the neglect and possible disdain for the…
