The trend of healthcare professionals, particularly doctors, pharmacists, and nurses, leaving Nigeria for opportunities abroad has been steadily rising.
This mass migration has resulted in a doctor-patient ratio that exceeds five times the recommendations of the World Health Organization.
Reporting from Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, WADR’s Usman Umar reveals in this report that over the past two years, more than five hundred health workers have departed from the National Hospital Abuja.
