Brain drain, poor budgetary allocations among problems bedevilling Nigeria’s health sector – Minister

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Brain drain, poor budgetary allocations among problems bedevilling Nigeria’s health sector – Minister

The Coordinating Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Prof Muhammad Ali Pate, has said that until Nigeria gets its budgetary allocation rights on the nation’s health sector, and also address the nagging problems of brain drain, the country will continue to face challenges in the area.

The minister, who identified poor financing, brain drain, obsolete equipment, and a lack of facilities as part of the problems being faced by the healthcare sector in the country, said that the government of Ahmed Bola Tinubu is tackling the challenge headlong.

Pate, who was represented by the Chief Medical Director of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Prof Abdurrahman Sheshe, stated this on Thursday, while delivering an address at the 13th Biennial Delegates Meeting and Scientific Conference of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) holding in Kano.

At the event with the theme, “Medical Education in Nigeria at a Crossroads, Challenges of Undergraduate and Postgraduate Medical Education and Way Forward,” he also called on the medical practitioners to stand by the government as it cannot do it all alone without them.

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“I recognise the fact that there are problems facing the medical sector in the country that include poor-funding, brain drain, lack of facilities, obsolete equipment, and lack of workers and facilities, especially in rural areas.

“All these are part of what the current administration is working to change in order to enhance the health sector.

“The situation has caused a lot of problems that have to do with maternal mortality and various others.