The Chairman, House Committee on Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa has described the sack of over 16,000 Nigerian resident doctors by the Federal Government as questionable considering the present Ebola Virus Disease presently ravaging the country.

In a press statement issued yesterday, in Lagos, Chairman House Committee on Diaspora, she stated that the “Resident doctors form a great part of the foundation upon which the medical practice in Nigeria is built,”

“They are the younger generation of doctors who are constantly understudying their superiors with a hope to replacing some of our renowned consultants in later years. The message being sent by the Federal Government to our youthful doctors is clear and simple: ‘we do not care about you or your profession. To us you are worthless.’”
“This same message delivered in several other ways has caused tonnes of our doctors to continue to relocate to western countries.

“Their numbers have become so significant they have even formed associations in the United Kingdom and United States of America.  For the sake our nation’s medical sector, this perception needs to be addressed promptly.”