More than sixty-five per cent of healthcare workers in physiotherapy alone leave Nigeria after acquiring the necessary professional training due to poor welfare and condition of service.
This was disclosed by the President of the Nigeria society of physiotherapist Felix Odusoya, who also revealed that Nigeria has one physiotherapist to eighty thousand patients against the recommended one to ten thousand.
Odusonya’s concerns were also expressed by the vice chancellor, coal city university, Enugu, Professor Emeka Igwe and former internal affairs minister, Abdulrahman Dambazzau.
For Nigeria’s minister of state for health, Tunji Alausa, who was represented by the chief medical Director of National hospital, Raji Mammood, the federal government is making frantic effort to address the challenges confronting healthcare providers.
The ministers representative was speaking at the 65th anniversary of the Nigeria Society of physiotherapists.
Editor: Ebuwa Omo-Osagie
