For almost a decade, the exodus of Nigerian doctors to other countries has led to acute shortages in the nation’s various medical specialities. Some years ago, a former President of the Nigerian Medical Association , Dr Osahon Enabulele, had said that about two-thirds of Nigerian doctors who leave the country end up practising medicine in foreign countries while some of them switch professions.
And with the nation’s population put at 170 million some years back, experts said the country needs not less than 283,333 doctors to meet global standards. Now, Nigeria obviously needs more than 283,333 as the population has reportedly escalated to almost 200 million with over 2,000 doctors migrating to the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, United Arab Emirates , and South Africa, among others, every year.
The minister appears not to be abreast of the challenges in the health sector. It is unfortunate he had to delve into a matter he did not appear to know much about. When the minister begins to think about the foreign exchange of a critical social issue and health of Nigerians, it is a misplaced statement on Nigeria’s health indices.
We don’t have enough doctors because if you have a population of 190 million and, given the number of doctors practising in the country, which is about 32,00 to 35,000 doctors, that number is inadequate. It is about a ratio population of one doctor to 5000 patients in contravention of WHO recommendation of one to 600 patients. Even though we have about 72,000 registered doctors, that will not give us a true reflection of the number of doctors because many of them are practising in the diaspora.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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