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#DailyDataCard: Doctors practicing in Nigeria earn less than 10% of what their Colleagues earn in the Countries they Migrate to
But the brain drain is not limited to doctors alone; nurses and midwives are also leaving. A previous report by Dataphyte highlighted this.
Medical doctors in Nigeria have embarked on industrial actions (strikes) several times to ventilate their demands in the last two decades. They carried out this action for 265 days between 2000 and 2021. The last was an indefinite strike in 2021, which was called off on October 6, 2021.
The Nigerian healthcare sector has faced a series of challenges, with multiple reports noting alarming deterioration in health service delivery.
