Mass exit of doctors looms in Lagos hospitals

TOUGH times await patients seeking healthcare services in Lagos state-owned hospitals as medical doctors under the employment of the government yesterday gave notice of possible mass exit due to what they called the administration’s insensitivity to their plight.

Findings by Vanguard showed that about 810 doctors have left the service within two years. In Ikorodu General Hospital alone, about 30 have left in the last one year.

The story is not different in other health facilities across the state. The doctors under the auspices of Medical Guild claimed that most of them have been stagnated and denied promotion for over 13 years and counting.

They also alleged that the state government has refused to implement what they described as the “readjusted Consolidated Medical Salary Scale,’’ CONMESS, for Medical and Dental Practitioners agreed on in 2014. The Guild raised concern that the development in the state service has also resulted in brain drain.

Confirming the situation to Vanguard in a telephone chat in Lagos, the Chairman of the Medical Guild, Dr. Saliu Oseni said even in the hospital where he practises, Ikorodu, not fewer than 30 doctors have left since this year, aside from those who retired from the service.

Vanguard, October 31, 2017

 

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