Regularise Your Registration Or Leave, Tambuwal Tells Foreign Doctors

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tambuwalspeakerBy Abdallah el-Kurebe

Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State has warned that foreign doctors working in the services of the state government to regularise their registration with the appropriate professional agencies or get sacked.

‎The governor spoke when he received members of the Sokoto State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in his office on Wednesday.

While stressing that henceforth, Sokoto state government would recruit foreign doctors only when it became absolutely necessary, ‎the Governor added that “priority will be to recruit Nigerian doctors who are qualified and know the medical terrain well.”

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He further emphasised that for foreign doctors, regularising with indegineous professional bodies “becomes necessary in order to streamline the activities of all the foreign doctors and ensure they are qualified to practice in Nigeria.”

Tambuwal said the government would upgrade facilities at the state specialist hospital to enable it render residency services to medical students in the state.

Urging the doctors to work with the government to professionalise the health sector, Tambuwal promised to ensure that only qualified health personnel were in the employ of the government.

He pleaded with NMA to consider the precarious financial situation in the country while making demands for increased pay, saying government will consider cases based on merit.

NMA state chairman, Dr. Abdulgaffar Jimoh earlier urged the government to overhaul the entire health sector with a view to meeting the medical needs of the populace.

He lamented the low level of health personnel working in the state and urged the government to recruit more health workers to ease the burden on existing staff.

 

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