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Nigeria should train more doctors, export some – Okowa

Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, has said Nigeria has the capacity to export medical practitioners if available potential is adequately harnessed and planned.

Okowa stated this while inaugurating the Collegiate System in the Delta State Schools of Nursing at the College of Nursing, Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of the state.

He said rather than contemplate restricting medical practitioners from moving out of the country, more of them could be trained, and from the pool, enough would remain in the country while some could be exported to needy nations.

Okowa said, “Nigeria can leverage the massive demand for medical professionals trained in the country by signing bilateral agreements with foreign nations to train and export more of the professionals to those countries.

“I think that as a nation, if we know where our strength lies, we can do things that can enable us to improve on where our strength lies.

“There is nothing wrong if there is a planned programme by Nigeria to train many more nurses than we need, and we enter into a bilateral relationship with other countries to export some of our nurses, midwives and doctors.

“I am not one of those that will come out to say that we are trying to make laws to stop or restrict the movement of medical personnel out of the country.

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