Nigeria has about 24, 000 actively licensed physicians caring for its over 200 million population as result of brain drain in the country, the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has said.
NMA President, Ojinmah Uche, stated this yesterday in Abuja during a policy dialogue on Nigeria’s health sector brain drain and its implications for sustainable child and family health service delivery, organised by the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies in collaboration with the Partnership for Advancing Child and Family Health at Scale project of the development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC).
He said this gives a horrible true ratio of approximately 1 doctor to 10,000 patients ratio.
Brain Drain: Nigeria Left With 24,000 Doctors – NMA – Health – Nigeria (nairaland.com)