A health crisis is hanging over Nigeria owing in part to the incessant emigration of medical doctors to advanced countries. The recent attempt by 58 Nigerian doctors to migrate to the United Kingdo...
A health crisis is hanging over Nigeria owing in part to the incessant emigration of medical doctors to advanced countries. The recent attempt by 58 Nigerian doctors to migrate to the United Kingdom, which was foiled by the Nigeria Immigration Service at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, was not surprising. It underscores the widespread assumption that the number of doctors seeking to migrate is on the increase even during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic.
But the country’s health care system, which is already on the brink of collapse, may not be able to withstand an additional strain. The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria puts the total number of registered doctors in Nigeria at a paltry 74,543 for the country’s population of about 200 million. This puts the doctor-patient ratio in the country at 1:3,500. This falls far below the World Health Organisation’s recommendation of 1:600.
The conditions of a few doctors that are lucky to get a job are just a shade better. Nigerian doctors in the public sector have at various times embarked on strikes even during the pandemic, lamenting the poor working conditions, the meagre and sometimes unpaid allowances as well as the lack of proper personal protective equipment for health workers. The decision of the Federal Government last month to release N4.
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