2023: Don't vote for candidates without health manifestos- Enabulele




From Chris Akhabue 

President, World Medical Association (WMA), Dr. Osahon Enabulele, yesterday,
advised electorates not to cast their votes for candidates who have no clear- cut approach of how they intend to improve the health sector in the country.

He made the call yesterday when he paid a condolence visit to the chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Edo State council, Comrade Festus Alenkhe.

While addressing journalists at the occasion, he appealed to Nigerians to look beyond the immediate and personal gains but to look at the future, just as he challenged them to look out for the candidates’ health manifestos before casting their votes.

He said, " Nigerians should not cast their votes for the candidates who do not have a health manifestos".

He further stated that 
violence at workplace against physicians, increased workloads and mental burnout as factors resulting to the brain drains in the health sector globally

 "Violence against health workers at their places of work is getting out of hand and so,  measures should be adopted to checkmate the ugly trend across the globe".

Enabulele said it was  pathetic that the health workers who worked tirelessly and risked their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that the virus is curtailed, were highly stigmatized in some parts of the countries.

He said during the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic, landlords in some  countries were sceptical in giving their houses to doctors to rent because they thought they could possibly contract the virus from them.

He said if the ugly trend is not arrested and nipped in the bud, a lot of health practitioners might work out of their profession.

He said now that he is familiar with the root causes of the problem in the health sector, he is willing to partner the Nigeria Union of Journalists in addressing the challenges across the globe.

Responding, chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists, Edo State Council, Mr. Festus Alenkhe, congratulated the President, World Medical Association (WMA) for making the country proud globally.

He also commended the health workers for their roles in curtailing the COVID-19 pandemic globally.

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