Kebbi medical doctors earn salaries equivalent to FG doctors
Kebbi medical doctors earn salaries equivalent to FG doctors
Brain Drain: Medical Doctors start enjoy salaries equivalent with federal government doctors
From Olanrewaju Lawal Birnin Kebbi
Kebbi State Government has disclosed that all the Medical Doctors working in the state have started to enjoying salaries equivalent to their colleagues working with the Federal Government’s tertiary health facilities.
The State Commissioner for Health, Comrade Musa Inusa-Isma’il, disclosed this at the handing over of Ambulances to the state owned health facilities at the Ministry of Health in Birnin Kebbi on Tuesday.
The benefiting health facilities included; Sir Yahaya Memorial Hospital, Birnin Kebbi, State Teaching Hospital, Kalgo, General Hospital, Argungu, General Hospital, Yauri, General Hospital, Zuru, and General Hospital, Bunza.
Isma’il explained that the essence of the harmonisation of their salaries, was to retain the existing medical doctors, attract more to the services of the state, which would stopped the brain drains.
According to him,” the doctors across the state had already started enjoying the new salaries from August 2024.m”.
While speaking on the donation of the Ambulances to the hospitals, Isma’il,explained that, the vehicles was in fulfilment of the Governor, Dr Nasir Idris, campaign promises.
According to him, “His Excellency said I should inform you the beneficiaries of this gesture that the vehicle should be strictly used for the intended purpose. It shouldn’t be used for any other thing else.
“If there is no any referral case, each of the vehicles must be parked at the hospital by 6:00p.m. The governor said you should warn your drivers against reckless driving as well as violating the instruction.
“We should also do everything possible to reciprocate the gesture by working according to the terms and conditions attached,” he advised.
In his speech, the Permeant Secretary of the ministry, Dr Shehu Koko, recalled that the ambulances were handed over to the ministry last Friday by the Governor for onward hand over to the benefiting hospitals.
He observed that the ambulances would go a long way in improving referral system in the state, adding that delays in reaching the secondary and tertiary facilities would be eliminated.
The Permanent Secretary,attributed the high rate of maternal mortality in the country to delay in getting to the health facilities for proper medical care.
He said: “we believe with the provision of these ambulances, part of the gaps we have in our referral system will be addressed, whereby, patients who require secondary healthcare could be easily transported to secondary and tertiary health centres, where they can get such help,” he said
In a goodwill message, the Commissioner for Information and Culture, Alhaji Yakubu Ahmed-BK expressed gratitude to the Governor for the support he has been given to the ministry to excel.
While advising the beneficiaries to use the vehicles judiciously, the commissioner advised that services and maintenance of the vehicles must be prompt in order to derive the maximum benefits from the vehicles.
