It’ll take Nigeria 20 years to produce enough doctors, pharmacists, others – Stakeholders

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It’ll take Nigeria 20 years to produce enough doctors, pharmacists, others – Stakeholders

Leading experts in Nigeria’s health sector have said it would be impossible to produce sufficient personnel to effectively meet the country’s increasing healthcare needs with the current burden of brain drain.

They held that it would take Nigeria 20 years, at the minimum, to produce 400,000 health workers needed to fill in the gap and cater to the health needs of Nigeria’s 220 million population.

The senior medical professionals, while exclusively speaking with PUNCH Healthwise said Nigeria has a horrible ratio of one doctor to 8,000 patients, which is…

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