Nigerian Govt Rejects Bill To Stop Doctors’ Migration

By Sola Omoniyi, Lagos

Senator Chris Ngige as described a bill being passed by the National Assembly seeking to stop Nigerian doctors to travel out to look for better opportunities as satanic.

Ngige, who is the Minister of Labour and Empowerment said this after Federal Executive Council meeting presided by Vice president, Yemi Osinbajo at the State House Abuja.

It was alleged that the resident doctors are to embark on a five days warning strike over attempts to stop medical and dental graduates from fleeing the country.

According to Ganiyu Johnson, a member House of Representative from Lagos State, the bill would check the mass travelling of medical practitioners from the country.

The bill titled “A bill for an act to amend the medical and dental practitioners Act, Cap. M379, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria”.

However, the development doesn’t go well with the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, which made them to announced plans to embark on a five days warning strike, so as to resist the act of enslaving Nigerian medical doctors.

The doctors, however, used the opportunity to demand an immediate increment in the consolidated medical salary structures.