Pay more attention to healthcare, Soyinka advises government (Punch)

A Lagos- based medical expert, Dr Dapo Soyinka, on Sunday called on government at all levels to pay more attention to healthcare services to reduce brain drain and medical tourism. Soyinka, the Medical Director and Chief Executive Officer, Maternal and Child Centre , Amuwo-Odofin, Lagos State, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria  in Lagos. According to him, unless there is an improvement in the funding, infrastructure and welfare of health workers in the country, Nigerians will not get quality healthcare. He added that poor health services and motivation for workers had been responsible for the exodus of Nigeria’s best brains in medical sector to developed climes  for greeener pastures. Read more