Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige has said
medical doctors in Nigeria are trained for next to nothing, as they are made to
pay an average of N48,000 per section as fees in public tertiary institutions.
Ngige said that was not the case in Europe and America where
most of them run to for greener pastures, where they pay between €80,000 euros
or dollars above per section to acquire the same kind of education.
The Labour Minister said this while featuring at the State
House briefings coordinated by the Presidential Media Team on Tuesday, in
Abuja.
He accused the medical professionals leaving the country to
work abroad of ingratitude, stating that a good number of them lack a sense of
commitment to nation-building.
He said their counterparts in Europe and America access
loans to get trained as medical personnel and some keep paying back such loans
even after graduation.
Ngige, however, said it was not just a bag of misfortune for
the country, as some of the so-called Nigerians going abroad end up coming back
home to establish quality healthcare hospitals in Lagos and Abuja, which other
citizens now access.
Responding to a question on why it is always difficult for
the government to nip public sector workers’ crisis in the bud before it
snowballs into a strike, Ngige said his ministry has been able to conciliate
about 4000 labour disputes successfully.
He said more often than not, nobody hears about the
interventions and that the ministry has been quite proactive contrary to
opinions held by many Nigerians.
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