Former interim National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande,has called on the Federal Government to establish more medical institutions to tackle brain drain in Nigeria’s health sector.
He made the call after inspecting both completed and ongoing projects in the newly established Federal University of Health Sciences, Ila-Orangun (FUHSI), Osun State on Saturday.
Akande, who was governor of Osun State, said medical institutions are not too much going by the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the doctor-to-population ratio.
He said universities are not too many in Nigeria.
”Statisticians will tell you that you need a certain number of doctors for certain numbers of populations, but Nigeria is far below that recommendation and advantage, so for a medical science university, I would love to see more of it in the country because health is wealth,” he noted.
