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BRAIN DRAIN IS REALLY HELPFUL TO OUR HEALTH CARE SECTOR – DR. AKINLADE

BYCHIDINMA OLU

Speaking as the guest speaker Dr. Olukayode Akinlade, Medical Director krown hospital, Lagos said brain drain is really helpful to the general wellbeing of the health care sector adding that Indians had also experienced brain syndrome in the last four decades.

Speaking further as the guest speaker Dr. Akinlade at the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) 12^th scientific conference and Ordinary General Meeting with a theme: Health on the Next Level Agenda at the Malaria Reaserch Centre (MRC) auditorium Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) Ikeja, Lagos, although the guest speaker Dr. Akinlade titled the theme again as ( An Overview of Nigeria’s Health systems and Interventions). Of a truth the Medical Director of Krown hospital, Lagos, Dr. Akinlade did not disappoint the participants with his celebral presentations adding that Nigeria with a population of over 200 million has only 40, 000 medical doctors, whereas India a sub – Continent has 1.3 million medical doctors.

He adduced that the Indian economy has progressively improved because the health care systems had been steadily stable with good projections of all manners of services rendered  to patients both Indians and foreigners alike adding that a time would come in the history of Nigeria’s medical applications where all those medical doctors who had gone abroad for better opportunities would come back home with improved medical researches and facilities thereby the Nigeria’s  health care sector would become heavily attractive and better managed by the policy makers.

Speaking further the guest speaker Dr. Akinlade told the participants that health is wealth but, very sadly our country Nigeria is sick because the health care issues are not properly taken care of by the powers that be adding that poor salaries leads to brain drain.

He said that every one needs to work together as the health care sector is a team work adding that they need to do more dialoguing to achieve greater result, Dr. Akinlade said that out of the 59 Chief Medical Directors (CMDs) nationwide that if proper scrutiny is being done on them , that lots of them would end up in jail as a result of corruption which also leads to brain drain.

He said that poor planning and lack of maintenance of medical facilities caused heavy breakdown of not achieving successes in the health care sector adding that the system needs to develop a good health care sector as a model.

He told the participants that one of the problems of health care sector is the politicians and politics adding that there has to be a strong national health care sector legislation from the national assembly.

He said that the government has to improve performance adding that there has to be more of the primary health care centres in the country as it is done in India, USA, Canada, Europe et’al. He said that doctors needed to go on sabbatical leaves for further trainings and more skills, adding that medical doctors are supposed to be given cars loans and accommodation incentives so that the brain drain issues would be largely reduced.

He submitted that private medical operators should be properly checked before approval is given to them adding that some of the private medical operators are nothing but, death traps where innocent citizens are sent to their early graves. He submitted that lots of doctors are sick and that the government should treat doctors freely. He generally concurred that the brain drain in the system would one day make Nigeria a medical tourist attraction from far and near.

Speaking to the participants the chief host of the event the Chief Medical Director (CMD) , LASUTH, Ikeja, Lagos Prof. Adetokunbo Famabanwo welcome the participants to the 12^th Scientific Conference and Ordinary General Meeting of Association of Resident Doctors (ARD)and he pleasantly told the participants that they really needed to improve themselves with the latest and modern medical training regardless of poor and bad policies of the government adding that there would lways be brain drain of medical doctors because the right applications have not been met by the powers that be.

Speaking to the participants with the sub theme one Infectious Disease Burden, How far, so far Dr. Kikelomo Ololade Wright an ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Counsutant public Health Physician of the department of Community health and Primary health care LASUCOM/LASUTH, Ikeja, Lagos did not disappoint the participants with her unimaginably presentations to the audience and speaking to the audience the sub two the Commissioner of Plice of Lagos State(Security and Health The theme Synegy – CP Zubairu Muazu told the participants that he was really delighted when the executive members of ARD paid him a courtesy visit in his office recently adding that he was pleasantly gladdened because the courtesy visit actually opened his eyes to lots of medical issues he never knew in the past.

He said that the issue of physical security is very necessary to all and sundry in Nigeria. He submitted that physical security and health are interwoven in all ramifications. He had to quickly did his presentation because he was billed for another state assignment at Abuja.

Speaking with journalists at  MRC Hall, the president of ARD, LASUTH, Ikeja, Lagos Dr. Fatai Balogun said that the theme of the 12^th Scientific Conference and Ordinary General Meeting ( Health on Next Level Agenda was carefully chosen by the organizing committee adding that the All Progressive Congress (APC) agenda is predicated on Next level and the new governor of Lagos State Mr. Babajide Ousola Sanwoolu would follow suit in bringing health care issues to the citizenry affordably.

He said that he did not support the payment of #350.00  for National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) by Lagosians, adding that health care delivery has to be really free for all and sundry. The ARD 12^th Scientific Conference and Ordinary General Meeting is chaired by Prof. Fancis Fadeleye the national chairman of Nigerian Medical Association who made useful contributions in his remarks by goading participants to take home some vital points from the training.