Odili Tasks Federal Government On Doctors’ Wages To Curb Brain Drain

Former Rivers State politician and Pro-chancellor of Pamo University of Medical Sciences (PUMS), Dr. Peter Odili, has called connected the national authorities to look into the wages of aesculapian doctors and different healthcare unit successful the state arsenic a mode to stem encephalon drain.

Odili made the telephone connected Monday successful Port Harcourt, Rivers State superior astatine the induction and oath-taking ceremonial of 65 aesculapian graduands of the instauration into the aesculapian profession.

He besides called connected the authorities to retrain applicable healthcare unit to negociate section wellness facilities.

The ceremonial was performed by the Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), Professor Fatima Kyari.

He, however, lauded President Bola Tinubu for the bold initiatives of his medication to reposition the country’s wellness sector.

“Madam Registrar, fto maine besides usage this opportunity, utilizing you arsenic a interaction of the national government, to convey Mr. President for bold initiatives successful the wellness assemblage that we person seen signs of. We congratulate him.

“And we impulse him to wage precise peculiar attraction to the grooming of wellness professionals due to the fact that they clasp the cardinal to nationalist health. A steadfast federation is simply a affluent nation,” Odili said.

The erstwhile politician stated that since its inception astir 8 (8) years ago, the assemblage has added nary less than 330 professionals to Nigeria’s wellness sector.

He further stressed that if different institutions successful the state could marque akin publication to the sector, Nigeria would not beryllium bothered astir wellness professionals moving distant from the country.

The Acting Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Smith Jaja, said the graduands were the archetypal to walk done the Pamo Teaching Hospital, emphasizing that they passed done the champion of training.

Jaja besides thanked Rivers State governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, for granting assistance to superb indigenes of the state, to alteration them execute their imagination vocation through the university.