The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday November 4th, 2022
It’s Time To Declare A National Emergency in the Health Sector by Kola King
The recent news reports in which the President of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Dr. Uche Rowland Ojinmah indicated that over 10,000 doctors have migrated to the United Kingdom in search of greener pastures is enough reason to declare a state of emergency in the health sector. Others have found their way to Canada, Australia and the United States of America. This revelation is a wake-up call demanding that government rise up to the challenge and take urgent steps to fix the rot in the healthcare sector. There’s urgent need to reconfigure the healthcare architecture in the country in a bid to stem the tide of outward flow of healthcare professionals to the developed countries.
Apart from doctors who are at the apex of the healthcare system, other critical healthcare workers such as nurses and midwives, pharmacists, physiotherapists, and medical technologists are also leaving in droves in search of professional fulfillment and greener pastures abroad. Also, the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria has lamented that over 5000 pharmacists have left for greener pastures in the last five years. The President of PSN, Professor Cyril Usifoh disclosed this at the 95th annual conference of the Society. Clearly, all this have brought to the fore the dire straits in which healthcare services have sunk in almost eight years of the All Progressives Party (APC) administration. Though it’s important to state that past administrations have paid scant attention to the health sector as well.
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Adventures Into Curiosity #poem by Jan Sand
“Einstein’s confession as denial,
Perhaps a trap to capture a smile,
Was to proclaim his mental brilliance,
As a mistake…
It was all merely a product of curiosity,
Not a perception honed to extreme vigor,
But merely, a catwise selectivity with rigor.”
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Ephemera #73 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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