https://punchng.com/nigeria-not-a-un-country-cant-afford-one-doctor-for-600-patients-ngige/
According to the minister who’s himself a medical doctor and former state governor and ex senator, we’re producing enough doctors but we’ve not able to distribute them evenly across our geographies.
The obvious response is to give financial and other incentives to doctors who accept to move to under-served areas; not to underpay all of them and be happy to turn them to economic refugees.
Health subsidies are a lot more sensible than petroleum subsidies under any circumstances.
And perhaps what he said was that Nigeria is not an EU country. We’re certainly a UN country. Who’s not?