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The irony is that those enforcing these punitive measures, including the current Minister of Health, owe their positions to the very opportunities they now deny others. Today, mass migration out of Nigeria is not limited to healthcare professionals, so why single them out for punishment? Furthermore, the elites behind these draconian policies hypocritically indulge in medical tourism abroad and send their children to foreign schools, while expecting the middle and lower classes to endure a failing healthcare system.
As I sat in the pew on that brisk October day, I found myself among roughly thirty graduates in the class of ’97 from Nnamdi Azikiwe University Medical School. We were undergoing the solemn induction ceremony conducted by the Nigerian Medical and Dental Council (MDCN), a rite of passage that formally ushered us into the esteemed ranks of the medical…