Doctors Won’t Have To Migrate Out Of Nigeria To Better Careers Soon – Osagie Ehanire

The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has come out to say that the Federal Government will do all it takes to discourage physicians’ brain drain from Nigeria.

Dr. Osagie Ehanire revealed this recently in Abuja after inspecting work on the new cancer centre at the National Hospital, Abuja.

According to him, he has heard the challenge of doctors leaving the country and he plans to provide better funding for our hospitals to prevent future occurrence.

He added that once our medical system is quality enough for the professionals, migrating out of the country to do their jobs would be unattractive.

His words, “I have heard the challenge of doctors leaving the country. We have plans to provide better funding for our hospitals in Nigeria and make such migration unattractive,”

“Schools are resuming, people are traveling in and out the country so we must be prepared for any emergency.”

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Osagie Emmanuel Ehanire (born 4 November 1946) is a Nigerian medical doctor and politician. He was appointed as the Minister Health in the President Muhammadu Buhari administration in November 2019.

Following the submission of the ministerial nominees to the Senate by the Presidency in July 2019 and subsequent screening, He was appointed as the Minister of Health in August 2019.

After his primary education, he attended Government College Ibadan in Oyo State for his West African School Certificate where he excelled at his Higher School Certificate examination. Ehanire went on to study Medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany, qualifying as a Surgeon.

He went on to the Teaching Hospital of the University of Duisburg and Essen and to the BG Accident Hospital in Duisburg, Germany for his post graduate education. In 1976, he attended the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland where he obtained a postgraduate Diploma in Anaesthetics. He got his Board Certification in both General Surgery and Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at the Medical Board of North Rhine Westphalia in Dusseldorf, Germany. In 1984, he became a Fellow of West African College of Surgeons.