Mixed reactions trail lawmakers’ plot to bar doctors from migrating
But the brain drain is not limited to doctors alone; nurses and midwives are also leaving. A previous report by Dataphyte highlighted this.
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Nigerian doctors earn less than 10% of foreign counterparts
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.