Managing Director of Save A Life Mission Hospital, Dr. Richard Okoye, has said continued lack of motivation for medical professionals fuels exodus of health specialists to foreign countries.
A recent report has it that 35,000 health professionals, mostly doctors, have left Nigeria for United Kingdom and United States of America as preferred destinations.
Okoye, who emerged winner of the 2022 Sun Newspaper Public Service Award, also noted that government’s disregard for patriotism has worsened brain drain.
He said: “Any nation that does not honour, reward or value patriotism will also suffer brain drain. There are people, irrespective of what you offer them, will not travel out, but if you do not appreciate them for the little…
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