Resident doctors decry poor funding of health infrastructure

By Emma Una

CALABAR— RESIDENT doctors under the aegis of National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, have decried the poor funding of health infrastructure and inadequate training for health practitioners which they said were severely affecting effective health care delivery in the country.

The doctors, in Calabar, Cross River State, yesterday, through their President, Dr. Onyebueze, in his address at the annual National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the association, said that the health sector in Nigeria was undergoing severe crisis with many  Nigerians going outside the country to seek for medical attention owing to the poor state of health facilities in the country.

“Poor funding of training programmes for medical practitioners, bad or lack of  infrastructure and poor manpower development have combined to wreak havoc on  the country’s health sector leaving it  at the verge of collapse,”  Onyebueze  said.

He said that the theme for the 2017 NEC meeting, ‘Funding Postgraduate Medical Education; Panacea to Medical Tourism’  was  chosen with the aim of  finding  solution to the deteriorating health situation  in the country because huge sums of money are lost to medical tourism with thousands of Nigerians travelling out of the country to seek medical help.

“The country is daily losing huge sums of money to medical tourism and brain drain with hundreds of qualified and experienced medical practitioners leaving for other countries with better medical facilities,” he said.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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