Number Of Nigerian Doctors In United Kingdom Rises To 7,875 | Sahara Reporters A check on the website of the UK medical council on Thursday evening showed that number of Nigerian doctors working in the UK had risen to 7,875 in less than a week READ MORE:
No fewer than 7,875 Nigerian doctors are currently practising in the United Kingdom, according to the UK's General Medical Council.
The NMA described the ongoing migration of medical doctors as"the second peak of doctors' mass exodus" after the mass departure of medical practitioners from the country in the 1990s. According to statistics obtained from the UK council's website, Nigeria is an African country with the highest number of doctors in the UK. Egypt comes second with 7,034 registered doctors in the UK, while South Africa has the third-highest African representation with 5,166.
India, which has over 29, 228 doctors in the UK, has over 10 million doctors at home. This means less than 0.3 per cent of Indian doctors are in the UK while for Pakistan, 11.2 per cent of its 127,859 are in the UK.
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