The deputy governor of Lagos State, Obafemi Hamzat, has asked the federal government to charge the United Kingdom and other countries for each 1,000 Nigerian doctors that they welcome as migrants.
Hamzat said this on Sunday, June 4, in Lagos while reacting to the issue of the brain drain of medical experts in Nigeria.
According to him,
“Human migration is normal. People would leave, and people would come.
But as a country, we can train more doctors. I am not against the brain drain of medical doctors, but what we need is to create a pipeline to train more doctors instead of complaining that medical personnel are leaving the country.
“The Nigerian government should rather, look for a way to benefit from the countries our doctors are moving to. For example, if 1,000 doctors go to the United Kingdom, the UK Government must pay us something back in return,” he said.
