Tunde Ednut and some other popular Nigerians have continued to react to the recent story of over two hundred Nigerian doctors who have been licensed to practice and work in the United kingdom, UK.
Though it is no longer a new story that Nigerian trained and indigenous medical workers, especially medical doctors are leaving the country in their numbers in recent years. This is simply because of the far better welfare packages, especially the renumeration offered to them abroad. And the ugly trend has continued unabated which has become a source of serious concern for every patriotic Nigerian, including popular Instagram blogger, Tunde Ednut, Ali Baba, and many others.
According to Tunde Ednut, UK recently gave about two hundred and sixty six, 266, Nigerian medical doctors license to work in their country. He laments that with the way this trend of medical doctors running out of the country is going, that very soon the country will be left with only native doctors as we would have lost our medical doctors to other countries.
“The way Nigeria dey go, very soon we no go get medical doctors anymore, na Native Doctors we go get,” Tunde Ednut wrote, “doctors are getting paid extremely in the UK and they are employing Nigerians.”
Some other prominent names who have reacted to the post include veteran Nigerian comedian and entertainer, Ali Baba, who stated that Nigerian politicians have vowed that medical doctors back home won’t be paid well, which is why they are always quick to fly out of the country for treatment.
Meanwhile, information has it that after India and Pakistan, that Nigeria has the highest number of foreign medical doctors working in the United kingdom, of which it is further stated that Nigeria has over nine thousand (9,000) medical doctors working in the United kingdom. Also, Premium Times reported that over five thousand (5,000) Nigerian medical doctors moved to UK in the past five years.
Sadly, this very issue is not just peculiar to our medical doctors, but the entire medical/health workers including nurses, etc. Unfortunately, there’s no concrete measures on ground by the Nigerian government towards tackling this very ugly menace plaguing the country’s health sector.
