The House of Representatives Committee
on Diaspora Affairs yesterday disclosed that 77 per cent of members of
the Association of Black Doctors in the United States of America (US)
were Nigerians.
Chairman, House Committee on Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, stated
this during a presentation at the Federal Ministry of Health on the
possibility of harnessing the vast human resources of Nigerians Diaspora
in the health sector.
Dabiri-Erewa and members of her committee met with the Minister of
Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu; Minister of State (Health), Dr. Mohammed
Pate and other top officials of the Health ministry during which they
opened preliminary talks on the issue.
She canvassed the need for a collaboration between the House Committee on Diaspora and the government on encouraging Nigerian medical professional abroad to contribute their own quota to healthcare delivery in Nigeria.
She canvassed the need for a collaboration between the House Committee on Diaspora and the government on encouraging Nigerian medical professional abroad to contribute their own quota to healthcare delivery in Nigeria.
According to her, Nigeria needed to borrow a leaf from a country like
India and China where their medical professionals trained abroad have
transformed the health sector in their home country.
These examplary countries, Dabiri-Erewa said, achieved the
transformation in their healthcare delivery system through deliberate
government policies that created the right atmosphere for their medical
professionals not only to make financial remittances to their countries
of origin but to collaborate with their counterparts at home in
raising the standard of practice.
Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, had acknowledged the need
for the collaboration and hinted that the partnership had already begun
with the establishment of a Diaspora Desk at the Federal Ministry of
Health.
Chukwu further disclosed that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
signed between the Federal Ministry of Health and Nigeria doctors in
Europe and America some years ago has been reviewed to accommodate
present day realities.
The minister said that a joint technical committee comprising key
stakeholders has also been set up while the federal government has also
begun to collaborate with a foreign firm, General Electric on how best
to create the needed synergy between Nigerian medical professionals at
home and abroad.
Chukwu said while government would not be able to recruit the Diaspora
doctors into its service efforts were on to create a conducive
environment for those who want to return home to establish specialised
clinics to do so.
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