The former Deputy Governor for the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Kingsley Moghalu, on Friday, lamented the exodus of Nigerian professionals to foreign countries.
Groups and individuals in Nigeria have expressed concern over the brain drain in health and other sectors of the nation’s economy and urged the Federal Government to halt the trend.
The presidential candidate for the Young Progressives Party (YPP) in the 2019 election issued a series of posts on his Twitter account challenging the administration to find quick fixes for the issue.
He also demanded a rise in the financial funds allotted to the medical field.
Moghalu wrote: “Nigeria’s medical doctors are leaving in droves for greener pastures in other countries. Those at home are often brilliant, but improvise a lot because they don’t have the state of the art equipment available to hospitals in the West and Asia.
“We must keep our doctors and nurses at home with incentives for them as well as teachers. These are two bedrocks of a society that wants to become developed. A good healthcare system with solid primary and higher levels of healthcare that caters to the poor in rural and urban areas is important. We also need specialist hospitals for more complicated health care needs.
“Non-communicable diseases like diabetes and cancer are becoming an epidemic. No federal or state budget should devote less than 15% of its total to health care.”
