Janet Ogundepo The President of the Nigerian Medical Association, Professor Bala Audu has lauded President Bola Tinubu’s approval of the National Policy on Health Workforce Migration, describing it as a step in the right direction. He noted that the policy was aimed at improving training, giving incentives that would improve retention and ensuring fair contributions from foreign entities benefiting from the country’s healthcare resources. The NMA president asserted that the association would make further recommendations to the government where improvements were needed and highlight areas of concern.
Audu further emphasised the importance of effective implementation of the policies to ensure the desired outcomes were achieved. President Bola Tinubu, last week, approved the National Policy on Health Workforce Migration to curb the japa syndrome, adversely affecting the healthcare services in hospitals across the nation. https://healthwise.
punchng.com/tinubu-approves-policy-on-health-workforce-migration-to-end-japa/ The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof Muhammad Pate, who disclosed this on his X handle, formerly Twitter, said that the policy was more than a mere response to the ongoing exodus of healthcare professionals but a comprehensive strategy to manage, harness, and reverse health workers migration. He further noted that policy, subsumed under the Nigeria Human Health Resource Programme, would ensure healthcare practitioners, especially those in .