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Reps Ask Ministry Of Labour To Review Salaries Of Medical Doctors

The House of Representatives has urged the Ministry of Labour and Productive to review the salary, allowance and welfare of Nigerian medical practitioners in a bid to stop the brain drain in Nigeria.

The House also urged the ministry to expand the size of the medical practitioners in the country to create employment for the unemployed ones and develop a functional strategy that will attract diaspora Medical personnel to work at various teaching hospitals.

These resolutions followed a motion of urgent public importance moved by Ganiyu Johnson on Tuesday during the Plenary.

Moving the motion, Mr. Johnson said that despite Nigeria being among the highest producers of diaspora doctors in the world, he noted that the nation faces an acute shortage of medical practitioners in the country.

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