The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has called on the Federal Government to ensure the implementation of one percent of taxes accrue-able from breweries, tobacco and telecommunication companies operating in Nigeria to fund the health sector.
The body also said these categories of companies should be made to pay more taxes to provide facilities in public health institutions in the country due to the nature of services they render.
Speaking after a week- long National Executive Council meeting in Ado Ekiti yesterday, NMA president, Dr Kayode Obembe, who read the communiqué, lamented the shortage of medical personnel in the country, which ratio stands at one doctor to 6,000 patients, instead of one to 600 as recommended by the World Health Organisation
The week-long meeting which also featured games, free health mission, lecture series and other activities was tagged Ekiti 2015.
Obembe, who called on the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria to accredit more public health facilities for the training of interns, added that the upgrading of some of the state and federal hospitals and their subsequent accreditation by Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria would help in promoting residency training for more experts to be available in the hospitals.
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