The immediate past preesident of World Medical Association, Dr. Osahon Enabulele, has said Africa healthcare need more 3 million professionals.
“I have been pushing for increased wages for physicians in Africa so that we can have enough of them rather than always exporting them,” he said.
He disclosed this to journalists on Monday at the Benin airport after his successful tenure at World Medical Association i(WMA) in France.
The ex-WMA president who was received by groups and health professionals said: “globally, 10 million health workers are needed. But out of this number, Africa today is deficit with 3 million health workers.”
Enabulele who also lamented briandrain in the health sector, said government should be taken into account to build more synthetic mechanism to ensure that health workers- physicians and professionals stay in their countries.
According to him, “this has been some of the global realization. And I am happy that the World Health Organization (WHO) has accepted the “Global Health and Care Worker Compact” policy to commit governments across the world to issues of healthcare workers.
“This is because these health workers strife relentlessly to ensure that citizens and humanity is well catered for and are also provided for”, he stated.
