Dr. Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment THE Nigeri an Medical Association, NMA, weekend described as hate speech a statement credited to the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Senator Chris Ngige, that in the United States of America and other developed countries, resident doctors pay for their residency training. But NMA President, Prof. Innocent Ujah, said resident doctors are paid all over the world. Ujah said in a statement that in as much as NMA appreciates the efforts being made by the government to resolve the issues that led to the ongoing avoidable and unnecessary industrial action by the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, it wished to clarify the misinformation by the Minister. According to him, the minister;s statement amounts to hate speech capable of bringing down the health system in Nigeria, worsen health care delivery and further escalates the rather unimaginable current brain drain. “In the United States of America and other developed coun...