Brain Drain: Over 5,000 Nigerian doctors move to UK in eight years

Nigeria has the highest number of doctors in the UK after India and Pakistan.

While Nigeria suffers from insufficient doctors and has a doctor-patient ratio over five times worse than the WHO recommendation, the country still loses hundreds of doctors annually to brain drain, a large number of them to the UK.

He also said a total of 727 medical doctors trained in Nigeria relocated to the UK in six months, between December 2021 and May this year; an indication that the total figure for 2022 would be higher than previous years. The mass exodus of healthcare professionals, especially doctors, pharmacists, and nurses has been a burning issue in the country.

This has further led to serious distortion in the already poor doctor-patient ratio of 1:5,000 in Nigeria as against the World Health Organisation recommendation of 1:600. He said in 2021, the Nigerian government allocated less than five per cent of its annual budget to the health sector. “The government has its priorities but we need to balance the equation and get serious about health investment,” he said.

In his remarks at the Abuja event, the Registrar of the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria, Ibrahim Ahmed, said a majority of pharmacists are leaving the country just like the doctors.He explained that the government must put in more effort to halt the exodus of health practitioners.In his remark, the Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria , Tajudeen Sanusi, said the impact of brain drain will affect Nigeria’s aim to achieve Universal Health Coverage .

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