Posted on: Mon 27-02-2023

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says the Federal Government has commenced the one-for-one replacement policy to address the effect of the ongoing brain drain in the health sector.

But the Nigerian Medical Association and the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors say the FG is yet to commence the implementation of the policy. Nigeria aviation minister Hadi Sirika —says, cash crunch won’t affect outcome Sirika spoke to newsmen, Saturday, immediately after he cast his vote at Sirika Ward, Polling Unit 004 located at Dubawa Gari Primary Tank in Dutsi Local Government Area of Katsina State. Customers fight over N5,000 over-the-counter payments There are so many ways to solve the problem of counterfeiting. A 63-year-old retired health practitioner, Aderemi Bello, tells DANIEL AYANTOYE how he was attacked by protesters along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on February 15, 2023 You were attacked by protesters.

Ehanire had in August 2022 said the government would deploy the one-for-one replacement policy to ensure that each healthcare worker that leaves the country would be replaced immediately. He said “I have heard the complaints the doctors are leaving the system, but actually we have enough doctors in the country because we are producing a good number of doctors every year. He said that the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) implementation of BVAS was a genius move that put an end to the previously alarming incidence of rigging that marred elections in the past. Just that the recruitment process needs to be smoothened. Nigerians are asking for their money so they can use it for what pleases them, you can’t restrict them to say if you have to spend your money, go and do mobile transfer. “We are working with the Office of the Head of the Civil Service to have what we call one-for-one replacement. I’m very glad and I thank technology, that the voting is so smooth, peaceful and without rancour. If one doctor resigns today, we employ one doctor. I was trying to explain to them in the same language, Yoruba, the next thing was that they started throwing stones at me and broke my car’s rear glass.

If it is one nurse, we replace with one nurse.” The Minister of Aviation recalled an instance where, in his words, “ballot stuffing in the boxes, snatching of the boxes themselves, thuggery and beating up and scaring and intimidating voters” were common practices in election voting. For the people who need money to use, and those who provide the money saved in the banks, you have to give incentives and you cannot say people have kept too much money outside the banks, querying why they kept their money under the pillow or anywhere else. So, if we adopt it, we are not likely to have a shortage. So, we are trying to have one-for-one policy to reduce to shortage of doctors in our hospital. And it’s so smooth and efficient, and the process happens within minutes.” Related News. You mentioned coins earlier; do you think it could have made any difference at this time? No, I don’t think so.

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