Obasanjo: Better Incentives Needed to Stop Doctors from Leaving Nigeria - TV360 Nigeria

Japa: How to stop Nigerian doctors from migrating abroad – Obasanjo

Former Nigeria President, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Tuesday, provided a strategy for preventing the Japa syndrome among Nigerian doctors.Obasanjo stated that the federal government must incentivise doctors and other healthcare workers to prevent them from migrating abroad.He stated this during the inauguration of the Yeriman Bakura Specialist Hospital in Zamfara on Tuesday.While lamenting that the migration of specialized and trained health workers …

Obasanjo: Better Incentives Needed to Stop Doctors from Leaving Nigeria - TV360 Nigeria

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on the Nigerian government to implement urgent policy changes and offer better incentives to healthcare workers as a solution to the growing migration of doctors and other medical professionals. Speaking on Tuesday at the commissioning of the Yeriman Bakura Specialist Hospital in Zamfara State, Obasanjo warned that infrastructure upgrades alone are not enough to stop the “Japa syndrome” — the wave of…