Between 2015 and July 2021, a total of 4,528 Nigeria-trained medical doctors have moved to the United Kingdom to practise.
The figure is aside from the number of Nigerian doctors who were trained in the UK and are practising there.
According to Newey, the increase in the number of doctors migrating from Nigeria has made the council to open a bigger clinical examination centre. She said, “The data released to you contains the total of Nigeria trained doctors who gained their primary medical qualifications from medical schools in Nigeria. This is excluding Nigerians trained in the UK.
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