{"id":851118,"date":"2025-05-25T22:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T03:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/25\/only-89-doctors-left-in-kwara-govt-hospitals-amid-japa-crisis-health-board\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T22:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T03:12:11","slug":"only-89-doctors-left-in-kwara-govt-hospitals-amid-japa-crisis-health-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/25\/only-89-doctors-left-in-kwara-govt-hospitals-amid-japa-crisis-health-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 89 doctors left in Kwara Govt hospitals amid \u2018Japa\u2019 crisis \u2013 Health Board"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Executive Secretary of the Kwara State Hospital Management Board, Abdulrahman Malik, disclosed that there is an acute shortage of medical doctors in the state-owned hospitals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking at the state interministerial press briefing for the first quarter of 2025 on Tuesday,\u00a0April 29, Malik said that due to the \u2018Japa\u2019 syndrome, doctors do not want to take up appointments with the state government, even when the government is ready to recruit them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He lamented that while between 180 and 200 doctors are required in the government service, only 89 of them are available in the service.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said the number of available doctors only recently became 89 from 86 when three who had left the service returned after the government introduced a new and improved salary for the doctors\u2019 services.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The hospital board\u2019s boss said the government had been trying to attract doctors to the state service with improved salaries and facilities that could encourage them to stay, especially in the rural areas where many of them do not want to go.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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He also disclosed that the government has introduced an intern nurses programme for the training of nurses who would replace many nurses who had left the service for abroad.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mass exodus of health professionals is severely affecting our capacity to provide adequate care,\u201d the official said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has approved an upgrade in the salaries of our doctors to match federal pay in a bid to retain the few we have left.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe revised salary structure has led to the return of three doctors who had previously resigned, bringing the total number on the state\u2019s payroll to 89.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, the figure still falls short of the estimated 180 to 200 physicians needed to serve the state\u2019s population effectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNigeria\u2019s doctor-to-patient ratio is currently estimated at one doctor to over 5,000 patients, far below the World Health Organisation\u2019s (WHO) recommended one doctor to 600 patients.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Executive Secretary of the Kwara State Hospital Management Board, Abdulrahman Malik, disclosed that there is an acute shortage of medical doctors in the state-owned hospitals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking at the state interministerial press briefing for the first quarter of 2025 on Tuesday,\u00a0April 29, Malik said that due to the \u2018Japa\u2019 syndrome, doctors do not want to take up appointments with the state government, even when the government is ready to recruit them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He lamented that while between 180 and 200 doctors are required in the government service, only 89 of them are available in the service.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said the number of available doctors only recently became 89 from 86 when three who had left the service returned after the government introduced a new and improved salary for the doctors\u2019 services.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The hospital board\u2019s boss said the government had been trying to attract doctors to the state service with improved salaries and facilities that could encourage them to stay, especially in the rural areas where many of them do not want to go.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He also disclosed that the government has introduced an intern nurses programme for the training of nurses who would replace many nurses who had left the service for abroad.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mass exodus of health professionals is severely affecting our capacity to provide adequate care,\u201d the official said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has approved an upgrade in the salaries of our doctors to match federal pay in a bid to retain the few we have left.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe revised salary structure has led to the return of three doctors who had previously resigned, bringing the total number on the state\u2019s payroll to 89.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, the figure still falls short of the estimated 180 to 200 physicians needed to serve the state\u2019s population effectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNigeria\u2019s doctor-to-patient ratio is currently estimated at one doctor to over 5,000 patients, far below the World Health Organisation\u2019s (WHO) recommended one doctor to 600 patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Executive Secretary of the Kwara State Hospital Management Board, Abdulrahman Malik, disclosed that there is an acute shortage of medical doctors in the state-owned hospitals.\u00a0 Speaking at the state interministerial press briefing for the first quarter of 2025 on Tuesday,\u00a0April 29, Malik said that due to the \u2018Japa\u2019 syndrome, doctors do not want to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":851119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22241,98020],"tags":[9009,59890],"class_list":{"0":"post-851118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-doctors","8":"category-kwara","9":"tag-doctors","10":"tag-kwara"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}