Nigeria struggles with exodus of doctors and nurses

Faced with sky-high inflation, low salaries and an overstretched healthcare system, doctors and nurses are leaving Nigeria in their thousands every year for better opportunities abroad. Between 15,000 and 16,000 doctors have departed in the past five years, according to Nigeria’s Health Minister Muhammad Ali Pate. Today, Africa’s most populous country has just 55,000 doctors […]

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