The National Association of General Government Medical and Dental Practitioners, NAGGMDP, and the Ondo State Chapter Executive Committee of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA-SEC, have urged the state government to swiftly adopt 100% Hazard Allowance for their members.
The action would significantly address the worrying pace of brain drain in the healthcare industry and the rising number of medical experts looking for chances overseas, claim the medical groups.
The leadership of both organisations, led by Dr. Omosehin Adeyemi-Osowe, the State Chairman of the NMA, raised worries that the issue, if not quickly handled, may have detrimental effects on the state’s health sector during their meeting with Acting Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa.
They insisted that the action will lessen the “Japa syndrome,” a condition where Nigerian medical experts go for career prospects abroad.
The government has already committed to pay the hazard allowance along with clearing any outstanding arrears, but the implementation process has not yet been started, the NMA and NAGGMDP stressed.
The state government was asked by the medical associations to give the early payment of the hazard allowance top priority since doing so would provide healthcare professionals with a strong incentive to continue providing care to the people of the nation.
The medical doctors’ delegation bemoaned and urged action to stop the brain drain in the health sector in Ondo State, according to Dr. Oluwaseun Akinbohun-Sado, the state publicity secretary of NAGGMDP.
The government had already agreed to the government’s first demand, which was to quickly adopt a 100% Hazard Allowance and pay back arrears that had not yet been paid as of the time of the request.
