But the news I received in the morning of Sunday August 8 was not good at all. “Your senior sister is dead,” said the caller in a tone that bore no emotion that was remotely related to the sorrowful event. I didn’t think it was a joke because people do not joke about events such as this. Besides, the information came from someone who came from the womb of the dead woman.
Since Nigeria is a country that is disdainful of statistics we may never know how many people, young and old, men and women, have involuntarily gone to meet their Maker, as we love to put it. But it is obvious that many of our countrymen and women are dying daily, and their relations are wrestling with sorrow while the striking doctors and the various governments, state and federal, play hard ball.
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, thinks the NARD fellows ought to understand that the time in which we are afflicted by the virulent version of COVID-19 called Delta is no time to go on strike. That is correct. He thinks that the action of the doctors can be described as an act of wickedness, which remark I consider to be a little over the top. Words spoken in anger can linger for long and damage relationships even after the problem that gave birth to the anger has been resolved.
About 4,528 Nigerian medical doctors who were trained in Nigeria are reported to have relocated to the United Kingdom to practise. In 2015, this figure was a paltry 233. In 2019, it rose to 1,347 doctors. This is an indication that the operating environment here is awful and we all must nudge the various governments and private sector big wigs to help our health industry to grow to a standard where medical tourism will be a thing of the past.
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