When asked her opinion on the current brain drain prevalent in the country especially in the health sector
She said:
"Because we have access to social media, we think everyone's life is perfect, it's not like that.
Even in abroad, you need to have a certain kind of salary, to get a certain kind of mortgage;to get a certain kind of house.
Everywhere has its own kind of strategies and rules.
Doctors are supposed to have some kind of ingrained reason to want to help people.
So the fact that people are running away because of money is a problem to me".
She said:
"Because we have access to social media, we think everyone's life is perfect, it's not like that.
Even in abroad, you need to have a certain kind of salary, to get a certain kind of mortgage;to get a certain kind of house.
Everywhere has its own kind of strategies and rules.
Doctors are supposed to have some kind of ingrained reason to want to help people.
So the fact that people are running away because of money is a problem to me".
a sad reality of our times..no where is perfect but if i get where to earn more and especially for me a system that works i will move. i earn well in naija 1.5m monthly but cost of feeding, buying fuel cos of no light wahala even with inverter is becoming annoying. increasing demands from people, systems that just dont work is crazy....husband and kids are British citizens and we are getting so tempted to move. something i bough last month 2,600 now 6k because of exchange rate
ReplyDeleteIf your kids are British please move them over.
DeleteWe earned more than your figure, didn't have light issues because it was a configured power system,there were also inverters from some old telecoms units with many batteries discharging comfortably, 80% of foodstuff came from our own farms, dependents who loved us to bits, family and friends who cherished us but guess what? DH lost 6 close friends in a space of 2 years, the last being a renowned doctor,the one that specializes in fibroids in Ikoyi.
Same age group fa, lively personalities under funny circumstances.
He escaped bullet shots on a highway a certain night and came back, started compiling his documents before I returned from work.
That was it!
There's something occultic quietly going on in Lagos and nobody seems bothered.
They've started eliminating plus wife and kids? Haaa.
Families just mourn and keep quiet!
Security is important. Outside that he returned by himself and loved Nigeria a lot.
Me, I resigned and followed him straight up. Him and our 5 kids are Americans though. We fled!
No time.
Just take a leap of faith. Goooo!
You will just open your mouth and spew rubbish, so because we are meant to help people we should let hunger kill us or maybe one infectious disease on top 5k hazard allowance. Atleast abroad we can afford the basic needs of life. Make una dey play instead of telling government to reform the health system and pay doctors well, you are busy attacking doctors for looking for greener pasture. Bunch of lunatics
ReplyDeleteDon't mind her. As if where they are they are not still saving lives there. We are talking about working environment and all other incentives attached, she's talking gibberish
DeleteShe shouldn't have entered big brother house nau, abi is it not money that she too was looking for that made her entered? Yeye
No be who chop belleful dey save people life? What's that young female doctor again that was unalived by a broken down lift/elevator? If the environment is conducive, most people will stay, not just doctors. Imagine studying for years and years to become a professional and you can't even afford your basic needs, lawyers' own is another conversation, we really need to do better in this country.
DeleteBut no incentives has been put in place to make them want to stay🤷🏻♀️
ReplyDeleteIs not here that a BV mentioned that one government hospital like that doesn't have electricity or generator. I wonder how they cope.
DeleteThey're running to save their lives..
ReplyDeleteLeave to live..
How much is their salaries? How should they live with peanut? What about their families? Them no go chop? Won't they pay bills? School fees for their kids?
What about insecurities? Should they stay and be kidnapped? Bad roads that can cause accidents nkor? Or sending them to visit the mechanic every weekend,. Non existent electricity and expensive fuel..
Anto,. Let this be the first and last time you'll say rubbish..
I like you cos you dress decent and you seem to have sense, or maybe I thought because you rarely talk,. Now you have spoken and I'm beginning to doubt.. maybe you should keep shut more and let us continue to think you are wise.. cos this nonsense talk ehn, make e no repeat e self..
Everytime doctors go dey strike, government go dey whine them, that was how last year federal government promised an increase and when time to pay came, the paid less than half what was agreed.. so they should kill themselves because they want others to live bah..
The one wey Jesus don do on your behalf no reach..
You better no try this nonsense talk ever again for your life
SDK phycologist gaslighting post
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Na wetin Anto dey do be that..
Downplaying and dismissing the victims opinion..
She leave the root of the matter and attacking the results..
Olodo
Dante oooo
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😂😂😂 Dante Dante 😂😂
DeleteWe're still mourning Bv Shyla's dad who "likely" succumbed to exhaustion from doing 10 doctors' job by himself and him alone. Hiss😭
DeleteI have relatives who are medical students,some in med lab science,others in nursing I'm proud to beat my chest and say that where they'll work is already waiting for them.
As they graduate,na japa straight.
They don't know yet. Yeye Ministry of Health and Labour too is yeye.
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DeleteHonestly very silly argument.
Shey na the peanut wey government dey pay them dem go use take provide power and necessary equipment wey hospital dey lack, still run the hospital effectively? Minus their personal issue and wahala wey poor governance don dump for their doormat.
Anto please playing dumb doesn't look good on you. You no see hunger in the land on the rise?
You are too privileged to speak with this much ignorance
Do what works for you.🙄🙄🙄
ReplyDeleteShe has said her own opinion and she has the right to have an opinion
ReplyDeleteShe schooled there and was raised there o so before you clowns begin to downsize her make una know say she knows more than una.
ReplyDeleteBoth you and her are crazy! Her parents that went abroad to live and birth her, they don't want to help people abi?
DeleteAntoleck e dey do me make I land you slap.
ReplyDeleteIn this country with so much insecurity and hunger you are talking rubbish there.
Dey play
Silly gir
ReplyDeleteShe has a point though, she did not make it well but the discussion needs to be had and remedies put in place. I never forgot that story that Stella posted here during the height of Covid regarding the private jet that landed to collect 40 Nigerian doctors to go England. This is the same country that trying to get a visitor's visa requires a pile of info. They even planned on processing visas when the doctors got to the destinarion. Neocolonialism comes in all forms, it's not slave ships today, it's planes and plans of a job.
ReplyDeleteThose in decision making capacities need to put measures in place before the situation gets critical and witch doctors become the main healthcare providers. If the doctors are underpaid then increase salaries, offer other incentives like sign-on bonuses, assistance with student loan repayment, relocation costs and improve the facilities so that thesenppl can feel dignigty in going to their places of work, ensure the equipment they need to do their work are available and they don't have to tuen to magicians or octopuses to get things done for their patients.
She doesn't understand the whole concept of japa for most people.
ReplyDeleteThey aren't running away only to get higher salaries, it's way more than that.
For most people, it has to do with getting adequate health care services, social ammenities, brighter future for your kids, enlarging the opportunities and resources for your kids to thrive better in an ever changing world, quality of lives and property.
What about being able to drive your pregnant wife to the hospital during labour or sick family member at 2am without fear, travelling inter-state without fear of kidnappers, assurance of getting your pension as and when due and not using your kids as pension packages.
I can go on and on.
I will say this over and over again, this japa is the best thing yet I did for my generations to come amd I am grateful to God.
Hmmm
ReplyDeleteI know someone that worked abroad but has retired and come back home to Naija. He is here and his pension (from abroad) hits his account as at when due. He does not have to lobby or go and queue in their office to get it.
ReplyDeleteWhile our pensioners die on queues to collect their pension.
I don’t know of other countries but the US is no longer easy for physicians and pharmacists coming from outside unlike years ago. The UK maybe but many here are unfulfilled as hospitalists with no patient of their own, ER physicians, oncology, Psych etc. You rarely find black residencies in Opthalmology, Dermatology, etc some fields that offer a better quality of life and less brutal work hours etc. I am not saying there aren’t, just saying you are more likely to meet psychiatrists, pediatricians, hospitalists, ER drs, oncologists etc who are Nigerians. I know someone who so badly wanted to be in sleep medicine but was never able to break in and that was years ago.The money and the opportunities to live well regardless of your field is the benefit and consolation but they reserve the best of everything for their own.
ReplyDeleteThere is still a clearer and shorter path to green card and jobs for Nurses as their jobs are less paying and insurance companies prefer to pay ten nurse practitioners than five physicians. To find a place to do residency is tough and the PBMs and MCOs have distorted the system with prescribing privileges to others so many times you find them writing “provider” instead of doctor. Almost every professional in health care is a “Dr” (its not even that they like that) and morale is very low among US healthcare professionals because it’s all private humongous corporations that run the major hospitals and Pharma corporations & chains. The corporations got prescribing rights for some indications for many pharmacists so that the reimbursement can go to the corporations while the salaries remain the same with one pharmacist doing the work of 5 pharmacists! Physicians have no office, just a locker and a common lounge and are given targets of how many patients to see per day like a shoe assembly line. You have a situation where everything works like clockwork and you are with a patient for like 15 mins or so and another is in the next room and another etc. It’s still the best because biomedical engineering and science has led to vast improvements in diagnostic devices so once tests are ordered, diagnosis and treatment can be more targeted. Then you have the latest medications as 🇺🇸is the headquarters of drug research on the planet!
For those who came decades ago legally, yes you make very good money but be careful selling your stuff and coming now. Check it out first. Manage your expectations as many Nigerian drs can re-train to be nurses, with less pay but green card pathway, some are not even that lucky and work as parking attendants etc while their relatives think they are practicing medicine here.
I was blessed to have moved decades ago but I still wish Nigeria was better than it was we left decades ago after being hounded by armed robbers. It just seems to get worse. Many of us left due to insecurity and lack of good healthcare and opportunities. Overall plan your japa moves, and be realistic. We bought our first McMansion three years after we got here and use and have used cars we never could have used in Naija with so much opportunities for your children and exposure to the latest that science and technology can offer. Many of these wicked folks telling people not to japa have homes or condos here but talk as if it’s a crime to seek for greener pastures. Do so but pray, plan and study hard.