Anambra NMA urges doctors to take care of their health

<h2></h2>, <h2>The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), has called on members to take good care of themselves in order to deliver healthcare services to the public more effectively.</h2>, <p>NMA chairman, calls on the Federal Government to address the continued depletion of manpower in the health sector through the brain drain or outward migration of professional health workers.</p>, <span>Anambra NMA urges doctors to take care of their health (Credit: NAN)</span>, <p>The NMA made the call at the Elders Hangout to mark the end of the 2023 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Anambra Branch of the association in Awka on Sunday, July 23, 2023.</p>, <p>The theme of the AGM was “Mass Emigration of Doctors and Other Health Workers: the Origin Challenges and Solution”. Emeritus Prof. Okechukwu Mbonu, the chairman of the occasion, said the call becomes necessary to enable doctors pay attention to their own health while taking care of others.</p>, <p>Mbonu, 83, called on the Federal Government to address the continued depletion of manpower in the health sector through the brain drain or outward migration of professional health workers.</p>, <p>He said the factors responsible for the ‘japa’ or the brain drain phenomenon should be addressed to bridge the widening generational gap in the sector.</p>, <p>According to him, “we should go for check up regularly, most of us take our health for granted, at 83 I still see patients, I operate without glasses, so doctors should take care of themselves too.</p>, <p>“The elders hangout is a forum to advise our young ones who want to leave the country on why they should stay back and be patient with the government.</p>, <p>“In our own time, before you graduate, you had a car to enable you to function well but today, some consultants don’t have cars. If a doctor is paid ₦800,000 here, in the UK he is paid 8,000 pounds, you can do the mathematics.</p>, <p>“The System works better there, no fear of insecurity or kidnapping, as I am talking to you a professor was kidnapped on her way to the c