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Jigawa to Recruit
Cuban Doctors
This Day (Lagos). AllAfrica.com,
August 17, 2004. Bala Nasir, Dutse.
Jigawa State government is shopping for
Cuban doctors to work in its hospitals.
The state Health Commissioner, Alhaji Muktari
Mohammed, disclosed this during an interactive
session with newsmen in Dutse. He said this
is necessitated as a result of dearth of
qualified doctors in active service in the
state's hospitals.
Also, there seemed to be an overwhelming
unwillingness from Nigerian doctors to work
in the state, despite attractive packages.
Muktari said the state is having only 57
doctors working in all the 22 hospitals
it owns.
He said the number is too small to attend
to the teeming population of the state,
adding, part of our efforts to attract doctors
to work in the state is to put all indigenes
studying medicine on grade level 07 salary,
to be paid every month from their year three
until graduation.
"This is with a view to get them take
up a job with the state after graduation.
This is not all, he said, as we have also
advertised that, any qualified doctor that
has not gotten job should come to Jigawa
State, we will give him one."
He said the state intends to establish
additional 55 hospitals, to make health-care
accessible to the people, no matter how
remote their area is.
For this, the commissioner said, all the
77 development areas will have a hospital
built in its domain. There is going to be
at least seven doctors at the general hospitals
while the cottage ones are to get at least
two doctors he said.
Muktari said by the end of their tenure,
all the 30 constituencies in the state will
get a general hospital in addition to the
existing eight.
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