Over 4,765 Nigerian Doctors Working In UK — Anyaoku

Nigerian doctors in the United Kingdom are more than 4,765, according to the former Secretary-General to the Commonwealth Emeka Anyaoku.

Anyaoku said this on Sunday in his keynote address the 110 years anniversary and launching of an ultra-modern magnetic Resonance Imaging, MRI, centre of Iyi-Enu Mission Hospital in Anambra state.

According to him, the number makes up 1.7 per cent of the total of the UK medical workforce.

He lamented that many competent Nigerian doctors have also migrated to  the United States of America, Saudi Arabia and Canada among others.

According to him, this is “causing a haemorrhage in the nation’s health sector, which is part of the larger problem of brain drain being experienced by the country on account of the decay and depreciation in its federal and state institutions.”

In addition, he noted that the country loses N175 billion naira on medical tourism yearly, a figure more than 50 per cent of the Federal Government’s proposal for the health sector in the 2018 budget.





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