Bemoans Medical Brain Drain In Nigeria
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has charged the new management of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to improve on its performance, saying his administration will continue to support the organisation’s effort to develop local content.
Diri stated this when the recently appointed board members, led by the Executive Secretary Mr. Felix Omashola-Ogbe, paid him a courtesy visit in Government House, Yenagoa.
A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, quoted the governor as saying that as the host state, the Bayelsa government will cooperate and partner with the NCDMB to ensure it achieves its set objectives.
Diri congratulated the executive secretary and the board members on their appointment by President Bola Tinubu, urging them to perform optimally in order to change the narrative in the country’s oil and gas sector. He also charged the management to be guided by the agitations that resulted in the establishment of the organization.
The Bayelsa helmsman stressed that the Niger Delta people, who constituted the local content of the oil industry, must take the driver’s seat, tasking the board to make that one of its goals.
In his remarks, the NCDMB Executive Secretary, Mr. Felix Omashola-Ogbe, who said the visit was to officially introduce the newly constituted board to the governor, pledged their willingness to continue the partnership with the Bayelsa State government.
Omashola-Ogbe promised that the new management would continue and complete projects inherited from previous administrations in order to have a successful tenure.
Meanwhile, Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has decried the brain drain syndrome in the health sector, saying it is negatively affecting the country.
Diri also appealed to doctors to consider their oath to save lives and show more commitment to duty. Speaking in Yenagoa during the Service of Songs in honour of the late Mrs. Victoria Ali, elder sister of his wife, Dr. Gloria Diri, the governor expressed sadness over the cause of her death, which he said, would have been prevented if medical personnel handled her case diligently.
A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, quoted him as lamenting that in this age and time someone could die of appendicitis. He said as part of efforts to improve the health sector in the state, his administration has resuscitated the diagnostic centre, stressing that diagnosis was one of the major problems in the health sector and if tackled will significantly contribute to saving lives.
The Bayelsa helmsman said the government was sending doctors to Germany to study how to use a newly procured Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine for the state’s diagnostic centre.
He also disclosed that the state would soon take delivery of surgery equipment, urging residents to take their health seriously and go for regular health checks to prevent avoidable deaths.
