39 doctors, 800 medical staff leave Niger for greener pasture

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Over 39 doctors and 800 medical staff have left the Niger health sector to seek greener pastures abroad in the past year, the Niger Hospital Management Board has stated.

, the doctor to patients ratio in the state is one to 8,000 adding that the State is facing a serious health personnel crisis

“In Niger state, the doctor to patients ratio is now 1 to 8,000. The reason is that the doctors and health workers keep moving out, they go for greener pastures where they are enticed by being paid in foreign currency. The developed countries are seriously poaching our doctors and health workers.

 

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