Chief Medical Director of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Prof. Wasiu Adeyemo, yesterday, blamed the mass exodus of health practitioners overseas on poor hospital equipment and remuneration, even as he said the Federal Government is making concerted efforts to address the challenge.
Adeyemo, who spoke at a press conference to mark his one year in office, decried the exodus of doctors from the country for ‘greener pastures’.
He said salary increments are critical to curbing the menace of Japa syndrome and assured that the federal government is on top of it.
Noting that the government was committed to ensuring that medical practitioners are well motivated to stay in the country, he said: “In the last year, the government has been spending a lot of money to improve hospital infrastructure and has constituted a committee to address other issues bedevilling our health system.”
Recounting his achievements in the last one year as the CMD at LUTH, Prof Adeyemo said “The last one year has been very eventful and successful.
“On assumption of office, I was faced with three major tasks: the completion of projects by the last administration, pursuing my own vision for the hospital, and lastly, pursuing the vision of the President and the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, which I have been able to successfully undertake.
“The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare developed a four-point agenda to drive the objectives of President Bola Tinubu in the health sector.
“The agenda includes improving the quality of governance and leadership of hospitals, regulatory capacity, and agencies under the ministry, improving population health, promoting medical industrialisation, and improving health security and invention in public health.”
He noted that the management of LUTH will continue to partner with the leadership of the parent ministry in contributing its quota towards achieving the laudable 4-point agenda of the government.
The CMD also stated that the NSIA-LUTH Cancer Centre is the single largest cancer facility in West Africa and has provided care to over 11,000 patients since medicine it was commissioned in 2019, thereby saving the country millions in foreign exchange that would have been expended on medical tourism.
He noted that LUTH is now a go-to hospital for cancer management in West Africa and is even attracting clients from abroad.
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