The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Ebute Metta, Lagos, Dr. Adedamola Dada, revealed that the hospital is now actively partaking retired specialists to bolster its workforce in a bid to deal with the challenges posed by the departure of well being employees.
Dr. Dada shared insights throughout an interview in Lagos, attributing the necessity for such measures to what he known as the “Japa syndrome,” a time period typically used to explain professionals leaving their house nation for alternatives overseas.
What He mentioned
He emphasised the hospital’s dedication to increasing companies and tackling points head-on slightly than succumbing to challenges.
- “We’re increasing our companies, actively encouraging retired specialists, consultants, nurses, and others who nonetheless possess the required expertise to affix us. By creating an enabling atmosphere, we purpose to retain present well being employees and entice these contemplating retirement,” Dr. Dada acknowledged.
- Acknowledging that resignations have occurred, the CMD highlighted the hospital’s proactive method to deal with the affect.
- Dr. Dada affirmed that regardless of challenges, the FMC has designed packages and options to switch departing employees, making certain the continuity of important healthcare companies.
Whereas acknowledging the broader difficulty of resignations throughout the healthcare system, Dr. Dada emphasised the significance of not permitting these challenges to overwhelm the healthcare sector, emphasizing the necessity for revolutionary options and proactive measures.
The FMC’s technique of integrating retired specialists demonstrates a sensible method to mitigating the affect of workforce resignations on the hospital’s operations.
What you must know
- Nigeria’s well being sector is going through a myriad of challenges together with medical tourism, mass exodus, deteriorating infrastructure, low budgetary allocation, and poor salaries.
- Nigeria accounts for the third largest of worldwide medical doctors in the UK.
- In 2023, the President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria disclosed that 7000 pharmacists left the nation.
- The Japa syndrome is much more extreme amongst Nigerian nurses because the president of the Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives revealed that no fewer than 75,000 have left the nation within the final 5 years.
