Chairman of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Kaduna Chapter, Dr Sheyin Madaki, has said that doctors in the contemporary economic hardship needed alternative sources of income.
Madaki said this at the association’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) held yesterday in Kafanchan, Jema’a local government area of Kaduna State. The theme of the AGM was “Doctor’s well-being in current Nigerian economy: A call for alternative source of income”.
He said the need for doctors to get alternative sources of income could not be overemphasized. Madaki added that doctors must begin to look at entrepreneurship, mentoring, business and innovative ideas as additional streams to help solve the challenges of their low income.
He said that the present economic realities that have hit the nation further called for urgent intervention by government through immediate alleviation of the sufferings by way of palliatives, incentives to workers, tax rebate and others. “The last one year has had its own fair share of challenges as regards the wellbeing of doctors in the present economic realities.